Connected Action

The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1.  ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity.  ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on [...]

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    Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful.  The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event.  We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4  days, 20 talks, [...]

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The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. These slides provide an overview of the goals and accomplishments of the Social Media Research Foundation: 20110830 Introducing the Social Media Research Foundation View more presentations from Marc Smith

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Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Several years ago a program at the University of Maryland called “Webshop” (Web Workshop) was organized by Professor John Robinson and held for three consecutive Summers.  I visited and spoke at two of these events and know many people who attended or spoke [...]

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http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ Our paper, Finding Social Roles in Wikipedia,  about the variety of  roles people perform in Wikis received the best paper award (along with 4 others) in a field of 86 papers.   The 2011 iConference accepted 86 papers, and had about 550 attendees. The paper is authored by: Howard T. Welser at Ohio University, [...]

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I will be speaking at the next Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco– March 14-15, 2011 about measuring and mapping social media networks with NodeXL: Social Data: Advanced Methods – Social (Media) Network Analysis with NodeXL www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2011/agenda.php#day2-13a Networks are the common data structure that unify the otherwise diverse range of social media services. In this [...]

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The United States State of the Union address this year will be held Tuesday evening, 25 January 2011. The event is a globally visible opportunity for the President of the United States to present the Administration’s vision for its agenda for the year to the people of the US and the world. The hashtag #stateoftheunion [...]

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I am coming to understand what is interesting in any particular network visualization by looking at many network visualizations. Using NodeXL, I have made several maps of  social media networks of people talking about several topics of interest from current events to conferences I attend.  You can find a collection of them on flickr. I [...]

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If you are attending the CHI 2010 conference in Atlanta and are interested in social media network analysis, consider attending this tutorial: CN03: Introduction to Social Network Analysis Time: Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:30 to 18:00 Organizers: Marc A. Smith, C.S. Ang, Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Presenters: Derek Hansen, Panayiotis Zaphiris Benefits This course provides an [...]

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Last week I made a video with Norm Rose from Travel Tech Consulting about the ways different airlines get talked about in twitter.  Norm explores new technologies that impact the travel business and he asked me to create two maps: one for United Airlines and the other for Delta Airlines.  In the video below, we [...]

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Along with my colleague Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez I will be speaking at the University of Porto next Friday, March 26th. Hands-on Workshop – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range [...]

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Here is the Call for Papers for the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009 Paper Submission: January 8, 2010 Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010 Paper Acceptance: [...]

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On December 15th in Mountain View, California join me for lunch and a workshop on creating social media network diagrams!  We will provide a hands-on guide to creating maps of the collections of connections among people who tweet about various brands, topics, events, and concepts. Bring your own Windows/Office 2007 machine and we will set you [...]

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A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008.  One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources Authors: Shamma, D.A.; Kennedy, L.; Churchill, E.F. Source: ACM Multimedia, [...]

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