Connected Action

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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The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media. Some highlights: An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks [...]

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Our (Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser ) poster paper, Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context  has been accepted and published at the 2009 ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media) conference which will be held in San Jose, California this May 17, 2009 – [...]

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Another conference focused on research on blogs and other forms of social media is “ICWSM” – the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.  I was able to attend the previous meeting of this conference last March in Seattle and give a talk about different classifications of social media and I am looking forward to [...]

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