Connected Action

On November 8th, 2010 I spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of “Smart Society and Civic Culture“. 2010-November-8-NIA – Smart Society and Civic Culture – Marc Smith View more presentations from Marc Smith. Several of my colleagues also spoke at the event, including Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from [...]

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I spoke at the Social Tech 2010 conference in San Jose on October 26, 2010. The event focused on social media technologies and practices in the business to business space. I spoke on a panel about the application of social network analysis to social media to illustrate the ways SNA can illuminate the shape and key [...]

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I visited the SONIC group at Northwestern University for a talk about social media networks on October 22, 2010.

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I spoke at the University of Michigan, School of Information on October 19th, 2010 about “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and Measuring Social Media Networks to Find Key Positions and Structures“. I demonstrated the ways social network data sets can be extracted from social media services like Facebook, Twitter, email, YouTube, and [...]

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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 will present a workshop on NodeXL at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center‘s Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis workshop on September 23rd, 2010. Registration. CTSA Community Engagement and Social Network Analysis Workshop September 22-24, 2010 University of California Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center Sacramento, California OBJECTIVES Understand the basic concepts, [...]

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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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Ben Shneiderman spoke on June 2, 2010 at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University in an event organized by UPA Israel and the Leon Recanati School of Business. Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation from User Experience Israel (UXI) on Vimeo. Nice review of information visualization techniques and some mention of [...]

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On May 21st, I will speak at the Social Graph Symposium in Mountain View, California along with Sharad Goel – Research Scientist at Yahoo and DJ Patil – Chief Scientist at LinkedIn. The Social Graph Symposium brings together academics, experts, influencers, executives, and other prominent figures with an interest in social graphs. The event is centered [...]

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I will be speaking at the Princeton Club of Northern California on May 12, 2010. Event Date Time Location RSVP Silicon Valley Luncheon: Making Meaningful Maps of Social Media Networks 5/12 12-1:30 Palo Alto Krim Stephenson’97 As more and more of our lives take place online, we leave behind ever more data about ourselves and [...]

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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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I will attend and speak at a symposium being heldMarch 24-25, 2010 at the IE University Department of Communication in Segovia, Spain.  The topic is: Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. “The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in political communication, encourage international cooperation and unite scholars and practitioners.” The symposium is organized with Center [...]

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The Annual Meeting of the Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il (English)) was held February 22-23 2010. I spoke at this year’s meeting: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2010/agenda.php?lang=en Part 1 Part 2 The previous year’s conference website is at: http://www.isoc.org.il/conf2009/program.php The Israel Internet Association is the official Israeli Chapter of the Internet Society.  Their annual meeting is a central event of academics [...]

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After speaking at the Israel Internet Association conference February 22, I will speak at IBM Research in Haifa at an event co-sponsored by the University of Haifa Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the M.A. program in Sociology of Technology.  My hosts are Professor Gustavo Mesch from the university and Dr. Adam Perer from IBM [...]

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I will attend an interesting discussion organized by Jeff Ubois on February 16th at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Saving Our Present for the Future: Personal Archiving 2010 From family photographs and personal papers to health and financial information, vital personal records are becoming digital. At the same time, creation and capture of new [...]

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