Connected Action

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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This is a brief demo video about NodeXL analyzing Twitter social network connections among a group of users who all mentioned the term “digg”.

2009 – November – NodeXL – Demo – Mapping Twitter Social Networks “Digg” from Marc Smith on Vimeo.
This is a good demonstration of several features in NodeXL: social media network importers (in [...]

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Version 95 of NodeXL is hot off the compiler and we are pleased to announce several major features that create a social media network analysis dashboard.  From the NodeXL interface it is now possible to import networks from twitter, flickr, email, and a range of social network file formats.  Coming soon: support for more spigots [...]

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Here is a great piece of social media research from the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies.
Prof. Jen Golbeck and Justin Grimes analyzed 6,000 tweets from United States Congress members.  They found some interaction but a dominant broadcast pattern of use with a focus on self-promotion.  The Washington Post headlines the results as “Tweeting Their [...]

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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, ACM, [...]

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@drnatalie Happy to discuss social media network analysis: links of possible interest http://tinyurl.com/36jfla http://tinyurl.com/ff37d in reply to drnatalie #
Thanks to Kate Niederhoffer for a great team talk at Web 2.0 today #w2e #buzzzz – social scientists for social media! #
Thanks to our audience at web 2 – great discussion! Ping me [...]

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My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs.  The Business section runs an article “Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?“ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and the Style Section has an article on The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem.

My colleague Prof. Ben Shniederman [...]

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Twendz is a new twitter search and sentiment analysis tool from the public relations firm Waggener Edstrom (note the “WE” called out in the name) who have worked extensively with Microsoft over the past.  The tool is an interesting entry from “WagEd” that adds a dynamic aggregate sentiment measure that captures the general attitude towards the [...]

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#ocbf2009 Measuring social capital produced by social media – could use social network metrics-see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality #
At the Online Community Business Forum after a dead battery adds an hour to trip- thanks to Christine for helping me back on road! #Ocbf2009 #
Heading to Online Community Business Forum in Sonoma tomorrow AM! http://twurl.nl/4uril7 #ocbf2009 #
RT @gduncan411: [...]

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RT @lackaff: Really impressed with NodeXL (demoed at #sunbelt): http://tinyurl.com/c6jgq3 — awesome, easy network viz – Thanks , NodeXL! #

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RT @lackaff: Really impressed with NodeXL (demoed at #sunbelt): http://tinyurl.com/c6jgq3 — awesome, easy network viz – Thanks , NodeXL! #

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@LLiu This week off to San Diego: Sunbelt Social Network Analysis conf. – http://www.insna.org/sunbelt/ will talk about NodeXL & Harvest in reply to LLiu #
@LLiu At eComm 2009 last week: http://ecommconf.com/ – great talk Karrie Karahalios http://ecommconf.com/2009/speakers/karriekarahalios/ in reply to LLiu #
@joanofdark What’s your assignment? The team is interested in [...]

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@LLiu This week off to San Diego: Sunbelt Social Network Analysis conf. – http://www.insna.org/sunbelt/ will talk about NodeXL & Harvest in reply to LLiu #
@LLiu At eComm 2009 last week: http://ecommconf.com/ – great talk Karrie Karahalios http://ecommconf.com/2009/speakers/karriekarahalios/ in reply to LLiu #
@joanofdark What’s your assignment? The team is interested in the projects NodeXL [...]

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@RicardoCP Thanks for the tweet about NodeXL! Plz post any support Q’s on the codeplex board http://tinyurl.com/5d7oew What data interests? in reply to RicardoCP #

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@israelblechman looking for network visualizations in C# and .Net, and free? See http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl #
@makovec Thanks for the tweet! NodeXL has just updated: see http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl #
Facebook network edge list app: http://ping.fm/kx67h #
My colleague Bernie Hogan at the Oxford Internet Institute releases a Facebook app to grab your network: apps.facebook.com/mynet_phaseon … #

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