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January 19-20, 2012: Syracuse University – NodeXL Social Network Analysis Workshop

I will speak and lead a workshop on social media network analysis at Syracuse University on the 19th and 20th of January, 2012. Ines Mergel is my host. Prof. Mergel is Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Technology and Information Policy at the Maxwell School of […]

ThreadMill 0.1: Social Accounting for Message Thread Collections

The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1. ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity. ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on […]

October 9-11, 2011: IEEE 2011 Social Computing, Boston: NodeXL Paper on “Group-in-a-box” layouts

This year the IEEE Social Computing conference is being held in Boston, October 9-11, 2011. The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation have a paper on our newest layout feature in NodeXL: Group-in-a-box. Abstract: Communities in social networks emerge from interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and […]

Social Media Research Foundation

Hello! We are a group of researchers who want to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media. Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through…

Webshop 2011 review: 4 days, 20 talks, 45 students, an earthquake, a hurricane and many new connections

Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful. The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event. We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4 days, 20 talks, […]

The Social Media Research Foundation – Slides

The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship. These slides provide an overview of the goals and accomplishments of the Social Media Research Foundation: 20110830 Introducing the Social Media Research ...