My tasks list says we’re due for a blog post, but I’m eyeball deep in client effluvia and staying that way until SxSW, when I will be consumed entirely. So, interesting things on the innernets:
I don’t remember how I stumbled across the blog of Bud Caddell, and I don’t really know who he is. I [...]
The Science of Social Media – PowerPoint Deck
The Science of Social Media – SlideShare
Search Terms (General – to learn more)
Network analysis
Social network analysis
Network visualization
Community detection
Links
Danah Boyd – Youth & Social Networks – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_Boyd
Mark A. Smith – Node XL – http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/2009-connected-action-marc-smith-social-media-network-analysis
Starting point for YouTube social networks presentations: – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp0nVf26F0
Example of Possible Mixup of Causation vs. Correllation [...]
phpMyAdmin, a handy MySQL administration tool, has a feature allowing you to import data into your database as a CSV file. I had some difficulties with it, so this short post just outlines what I found out.
The main trick has to do with column names. If you select either the “CSV” or “CSV Load Data” [...]
In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.
Social Actions is a great project, bringing together donation and volunteer opportunity data from all around the web into a single API. It has really expanded the reach and accessability of these opportunities. We had such a great time creating the Social Actions Tuner and Social Actions continues to be more than deserving of effort by the nonprofit technology community. Why not make a new project?
