On November 8th, 2010 Social Media Research Foundation Director Marc Smith 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 -…
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…
Date: October 22, 2010
The first CONNECTING THE DOTS symposium on network visualization organized by Michael Barnett, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and Samuel Arbesman of The Christakis Lab at Harvard was held on October 22, 2010.
Keynote speakers:
Alessandro Vespignani, Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington Ben Fry, co-developer of Processing and data visualization expert
The NodeXL project will be represented by Ben Shneiderman who will speak at 2:00 PM on:
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL
NodeXL is the free and open add-in for Excel 2007/2010 that supports network
overview, discovery and exploration. Supported by Microsoft External Research
for 3+ years, this effort has produced a game-changing software tool that enables
students, researchers, and professional community managers to extract and
download networks from email, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WWW, etc. Then they
can compute network analytic metrics, filter out less relevant features, apply
multiple layout algorithms, and produce compelling yet comprehensible displays
that reveal actionable insights about complex social processes.
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…
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…