Answer people and discussion people are critical to many social media spaces. Many hosts of communities want to attract and retain them. When these types of participants contribute to a social media space the results can be very positive: questions…
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…
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…
Many of my colleagues and I have applied social network analysis to Internet social media. Email, mail lists, wikis, blogs, newsgroups, web boards, photo sharing systems and social networking services all create "network" structures. In several papers we documented the…
March 10-14, 2009 is the INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysts) "Sunbelt" conference in San Diego (http://insna.org/). On Wednesday, March 11th 8:30am - noon I will present a workshop on: Using NodeXL for Social Network Analysis (Excel) NodeXL is…