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Workshop December 15th: Create your own twitter social network map

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: NodeXL · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Twitter · Visualization

Social Media Network Analysis Workshop – October 29th in Mountain View, CA

September 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010″. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL
On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media.
The workshop will run from 9m to [...]

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Tags: Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · NodeXL · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Roles · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization

Recently, Stanford Media X Workshop – New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

On August 5th and 6th I led a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.

New Metrics for New Media:  Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds
Organizers:  Martha Russell, Marc [...]

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Tags: Community · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Visualization

Summer 2009 – Stanford Media X Workshop: New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.  I am looking forward to working with the folks at Media X which hosts a range of [...]

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Tags: Cultural Representations · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology · Talks · Technology · Visualization

Social Computing 2009 – Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

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 inspire a new age [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Conference · Medical sensors · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Social network · Sociology · Technology

Upcoming workshop at “Sunbelt” Conference for International Network for Social Network Analysis on NodeXL

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

March 10-14, 2009 is the INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysts) “Sunbelt” conference in San Diego (http://insna.org/).
On Wednesday, March 11th 8:30am – noon I will present a workshop on:
Using NodeXL for Social Network Analysis (Excel)
NodeXL is an add-in for Office 2007 that provides social network diagram and analysis tools in the context of a [...]

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Tags: Conference · Social network · Visualization