Connected Action

I returned to South Africa to attend the 2010 edition of Mobile Web Africa, a conference focused on the remarkable adoption and development of mobile networks and technology in Africa. The conference took place on 29th & 30th September 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. I presented a workshop on social media network analysis, see: http://www.mobilewebafrica.com/marc-smith-workshop.php [...]

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I spoke at the eComm 2010 conference on April 20, 2010, talking about: Mapping mobile social networks with NodeXL: finding key users, groups, and locations The video is now available: The video reviews the creation of maps like this: That illustrate the connections among people who tweet the term “#ecomm2010″, scaled by the number of [...]

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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Here is the slide deck I presented at the “Studying Society In A Digital World” conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.  They just posted most of the conference slides.  I took some pictures and posted to flickr.  Here is the slide deck I presented [...]

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Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web Held in conjunction with SocialCom ’09 29th-30th August, Vancouver, Canada http://thesocialmobileweb.org The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 3.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and with continued advances in devices, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to [...]

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After a lovely dinner you order a third glass of wine, take a sip and your mobile phone rings. Its your health insurance company’s computer. You take the call. “We’re delighted to see you are enjoying yourself this evening!” the cheerful voice synthesis exclaims. “Please note, however, that you are now at the policy limit [...]

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