This document discusses mapping and measuring social media networks to identify important positions and structures. It introduces Marc Smith and the NodeXL tool for network analysis and visualization. The Social Media Research Foundation aims to create an open archive of social media network data and tools to study these networks.

1. Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and measuring social media networks to find key positions and structures Marc A. Smith Chief Social ScientistConnected Action Consulting Group marc@connectedaction.net http://www.connectedaction.net http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl A project from the Social Media Research Foundation: http://www.smrfoundation.org

2. About Me Social Media Research Foundation Introductions Marc A. Smith Chief Social Scientist Connected Action Consulting Group Marc@connectedaction.net http://www.connectedaction.net http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl http://www.twitter.com/marc_smith http://delicious.com/marc_smith/Paper http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith http://www.facebook.com/marc.smith.sociologist http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcasmith http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith http://www.smrfoundation.org

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295494976/sizes/o/in/photostream/

4. Many archives collect content but not the connections that link them (i.e. tweets but not follows/followers). http://www.flickr.com/photos/amycgx/3119640267/

6. Location, Location, Location

7. Network of connections among “SharePoint” mentioning Twitter users Position, Position, Position

8. Archiving connections is possible- but few of the resellers or archives of social media do so. Does the Library of Congress have the Links in addition to the Tweets?

9. There are many kinds of ties…. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3254238329

10. “Think Link”Nodes & Edges Is related to B A In and Out Degree

11. Each contains one or more social networks World Wide Web

12. NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel Leverage spreadsheet for storage of edge and vertex data http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl

13. For GraphML

14. Social Media Research Foundation Open Tools, Open Data, Open Scholarship

15. Social Media Research Foundationhttp://smrfoundation.org

16. Now Available

17. Communities in Cyberspace

18. NodeXL Free/Open Social Network Analysis add-in for Excel 2007 makes graph theory as easy as a bar chart, integrated analysis of social media sources. http://nodexl.codeplex.com

25. Import from multiple social media networksources

26. Social network of connections among people who tweet “Bachmann” on January 25, 2011

27. Connections among words tweeted by “red” and “blue” people who tweeted “Bachmann” on January 25, 2011

28. We envision hundreds of NodeXL data collectors around the world collectively generating a free and open archive of social media network snapshots on a wide range of topics. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/071012/071012_telescope_hmed_3p.jpg

30. Upload data sets to our archive!

32. Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and measuring social media networks to find key positions and structures Marc A. Smith Chief Social ScientistConnected Action Consulting Group marc@connectedaction.net http://www.connectedaction.net http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl A project from the Social Media Research Foundation: http://www.smrfoundation.org