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…
This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C. It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage. Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. [flickrset id="72157622064119361"…
There is some very positive coverage of Telligent recently in the press. First there is the very detailed review of the community platform and its reporting features from Barb Mosher at CMS Wire: "Social Web Analytics with Telligent's Harvest Reporting…
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…
