Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC)

The Role of Social Network Research in Enabling Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Enabling Social Network Research.

The goal of this National Science Foundation-funded workshop is to set out a research roadmap for the future of the relationship between social network analysis and cyberinfrastructure. For the first time, leading international researchers and practitioners in social network analysis will be brought together with the scientists and technologists who are developing cyberinfrastructure for their research communities.

• SNAC Resource list

Network Visualization

For more then half a year we are running a research project about social networks within the blogosphere. The social network analysis is only one step to get information about the topic flow within a certain blog networks. We used Technorati as a source for the detection of the blog networks using a snow ball approach and than crawled the found blog nodes to identify the network edges. So far we have five sample networks analyzed ranging from 300 to 14'000 nodes with more than 200'000 edges.
One task within the project is the visualization of these networks with appropriate tools that enable the easy access to the gathered information. Various levels of detail are needed to extract and highlight different network parameter and make them easily understandable. Therefore I did a research on current tools available.

Social Media Blogger

1. Applied Disruption, Jeffrey Stewart, Monitor110
2. Attentio, Simon McDermott
3. Attentionmax, Max Kalehoff, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
4. Beyond Dante, Tim Wolters, Collective Intellect
5. BlogPulse Newswire, Sue MacDonald, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
6. Blogs et IE, Tarik Mousselmal, Scanblog (French)
7. Buzzcentric, Severin Wilson
8. BuzzLogic
9. CGM, Pete Blackshaw, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
10. China IWOM Blog, Sam Flemming, CIC
11. Collective Intellect
12. Customer Listening, Laurent Florès, CRMMetrix
13. CustomScoop
14. Data Mining, Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs
15. DK the Business Guru, Darren Kelly, Collective Intellect
16. DIGtrends, Staff, Digital Influence Group
17. Distilled, Will Critchlow and Duncan Morris
18. ethority, Sten Franke
19. Influence 2.0, Staff, Cymfony
20. Information Arbitrage, Roger Ehrenberg, Monitor110
21. Market Sentinel, Mark Rogers
22. MarketIQ, Biz360
23. Mouthpiece, Jonathan Carson, Nielsen BuzzMetrics
24. Musical Entrepreneur, Rob Crumpler, BuzzLogic
25. New Media Strategies
26. Observatoire Présidentielle 2007, Guilhem Fouetillou, RTGI (French)
27. Onalytica, Flemming Madsen
28. Pardon the Disruption, Chip Griffin, CustomScoop
29. The Power of News, Matthias Hoffmann, Dow Jones & Company (German)
30. PR meets the WWW Constantin Basturea, Converseon
31. Primelabs (also Swedish blog)
32. Read Between the Mines, Glenn Fannick, Dow Jones & Company
33. RelevantNoise
34. RepuTrack, Joseph Fiore, CoreX Technologies
35. Scanblog (French)
36. see i see, Staff, CIC (Chinese)
37. A Surplice of Spin, Melanie Surplice, Dow Jones & Company
38. Veille2Com, Cyrille Chaudoit, Scanblog (French)
39. unstruc..., Daniela Barbosa, Dow Jones & Company
40. VisInsights, Staff, Visible Technologies
41. Young PR, Paul Young, Converseon

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