Here are a few of the major stakeholders that gather around any social media effort. Each role can be further divided into sub roles who specialize in particular kinds of behavior like starting discussions, arguments, or answering questions. Each stakeholder has information needs that…
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2008 Some dimensions of social media Marc Smith Talk reviews sociological concepts of social media and visualizations of computer-mediated collective behavior. Slides: 2008 - ICWSM - Marc Smith - Some Dimensions Of…
I love this paper from Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy and Mark Ackerman at WWW2008: Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something In particular, this image (figure 4) is a great use of an innovative way of…
I will be presenting an overview of social media visualization soon at the conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 in San Jose, January 19th,2009 (http://vw.indiana.edu/vda2009/) 9:30 am: Invited Presentation: Visualizing Roles in Social Media, Marc A. Smith, Chief Social…
I am pleased to announce the return of our network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007 now called NodeXL. Please visit http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl for the add-in and the source code for the application. Key features in NodeXL: > Import data from existing…
Clay Shirky posted his talk from last week’s Web 2.0 conference as a wonderful piece on what he calls social surplus – extra cognitive capacity that people don’t know how to spend at first. He argues that our next revolution is the shift from spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming content – watching TV – to spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming, producing, and sharing content.
It’s an interesting train of thought. I particularly like the bit at the end: