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Video: Panel Discussion from November 19: Using Social Media to Grow and Market Your Business

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Video is now available from a panel hosted by the Women’s Affinity Group of O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley Office in Menlo Park on November 19th.  Along with Karla Spormann, President and CEO Tendo Communications, Martin Eberhard, Co-founder and former CEO Tesla Motors, Patrick Ewers, Founder, Mindmavin LLC.  We spoke about “Using Social Media to Grow [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Talks

YouTube user and video networks in NodeXL v100+

November 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Starting in version 100 NodeXL has added a data import feature for extracting social networks from the associations between users and videos in YouTube.  The new social media network data spigot offers insights into the ways YouTube is socially structured.  This spigot joins the existing twitter, flickr, and email data import providers present in NodeXL. [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Research · Social network · Video · Visualization · YouTube

Video: Using NodeXL to map the “digg” mentioning Twitter population

November 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments

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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Tags: Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Twitter · Video · Visualization

VIDEO: NodeXL demo from Eduarda from Microsoft Research Cambridge at EU Innovation Day event

May 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Video · Visualization

Video: Instrumenting the interaction order: Tanzeem Choudhury speaks at the Networked Governance CCCSN Seminar 2009-03-02

March 5th, 2009 · No Comments

On the theme of  instrumenting the interaction order, here is Tanzeem Choudhury (from Dartmouth) giving a talk titled: “Using Sensors to Make Sense of People: Inferring the Micro and Macro Level Properties of Social Networks from Mobile Sensor Data” which she delivered March 2, 2009 as part of the Program on Networked Governance CCCSN Seminar.

Program on [...]

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Tags: Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Sensors · Social network · Sociology · Technology · Visualization