I’ve used Foursquare several times a day for over 2 months now. Social networks and other types of community have come and gone so often that when something new comes along, we can all be forgiven for being tired of it before even trying it. It would however be unforgivable for anyone working [...]
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April 6th, 2010 - 11:20 pm § in Social networks
Foursquare: almost there!
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March 11th, 2010 - 10:42 pm § in Social networks
SLNA: social network analysis
Who is in your social network and how do they influence its behaviour? Which events affect it positively or negatively? You need to find out if you’re carrying out social media campaigns. The research that ignited some fire in my belly today is from a computer scientist (Andrew J. Scholand at [...]
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February 4th, 2010 - 3:30 pm § in Social networks
Many followers != Influence
A paper called “Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks” by Kitsak et al. really caught my interest today. They demonstrate that the most social individuals in a population are not the most efficient spreaders of information. If you’re leading social media campaigns r[...]
January 14th, 2010 - 2:12 pm § in Search engines, Social networks
Who do we need in search?
The San Francisco Chronicle has an article out this week entitled “Social science meets computer science at Yahoo!”. It’s about how Yahoo have been hiring “highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the world”.[...]
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June 23rd, 2009 - 1:19 pm § in Ranking algorithms, Social networks
What is InfluenceRank?
There is such a thing as InfluenceRank and it is relevant to social media as a whole. It is very difficult to rank users, find authority blogs and to create any sort of order in this world as a whole. It is important though because existing ranking algorithms are mostly made for digital libraries an[...]
April 23rd, 2009 - 9:12 am § in Social networks
Twitter marketing genius
I have been following DC Comics for a while, and noticed that I didn’t see any tweets from them. I decided to investigate and visited their Twitter page: Stats: - 0 Tweets - 0 Follows - 1,668 followers Now why do you think they get followed with such a poor record? This defies all Twitter [...[...]
April 21st, 2009 - 2:17 pm § in Social networks
Social media policy
I have a lot of requests for inclusion into my social media sphere, and I have to admit that although I don’t want to appear excessively exclusive, I am fairly selective. The reason for this is that I want to keep my social networks useful and interesting. I am strapped for time, same as every[...]
April 14th, 2009 - 11:10 am § in Social networks, Tools
Graffiter – Twitter graphing
I like new tools and always have fun trying them out. Actually sometimes I don’t! This tool though is one that I did find fun, useful and clean. Graffiter was created by Ian Li from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the 2009 winner of Carnegie Mellon University’s Yahoo sponsored Smile[...]
March 31st, 2009 - 2:00 pm § in Social networks
Masters Degree in Social Media
The Birmingham City University has announced that it is offering a masters in Social Media. You can read more about it on Mashable and also in the Telegraph for example. Mashable have a conversation going on with a number of different opinions. There are a fair few people who read this blog who [...]
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March 26th, 2009 - 10:56 am § in Social networks
The Tao of Twitter
I tend to assume that everyone around me knows all about Twitter and seem to think that everyone engages in it and has an account. Therefore my jaw drops to the ground when I realise that quite a lot of people don’t get Twitter, and even more worrying, many companies don’t get it eithe[...]
