Forester recently released its review of leading social media platforms. They conclude that communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow. Community and social media have ROI! The segment is getting crowded, over 100 vendors and growing, but only…
The next meeting of the "Quantified Self" group will be held on January 27th, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. The group focuses on the emerging practice of recording lots of data about your physical state…
Participants in social media are not all the same. People who contribute to social media come in "flavors" that are created by each participant's patterns of activity and connection. In the post "Distinguishing social network attributes of online social roles…
NodeXL is an effort to bring network analysis tools to a larger audience by leveraging the power of a spreadsheet to make common data import and manipulation tasks easier. Most data analysis tasks with NodeXL follow a common set of…
Excel lacked a directed graph chart. Now it has one. (Excel) .NetMap (version .57) is NOW ON CODEPLEX: http://www.codeplex.com/netmap Over 2,000 downloads to date! (See: http://www.codeplex.com/netmap/stats) (Excel) .NetMap is an Add-in that Tony Capone is building that provides…
I saw an article posted to Slashdot yesterday about how scientists are using Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration. The original piece, published in Scientific American, offers some food for thought around these parts. The article is pretty basic, but…