Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL Quotes

“Social network analysis offers a systematic method to evaluate social media efforts, replacing anecdotes with scientifically based evidence.”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“The first report suggests that “social computing could play an increasingly important role in re-engaging citizens in political debate, in securing social cohesion and harmony, and it could provide a platform for dialogue on the grand challenges of the EU [European Union] and the rest of the world.” The second report encourages “policy makers to seize the opportunities of social computing but also to mitigate any undesirable effects” and laments the “limited provision of citizen-centered public services by governments.” The report further warns “that the empowerment and transparency characteristics of social computing initiatives seem to disrupt existing power balances.”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“Another successful community safety effort has been Amber Alert,3”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“Network analysis is a relatively recent scientific method for describing and analyzing a web of links among entities, including people.”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“Network analysis can be focused, they argue, on three separate regions of commerce: organizational network analysis, value network analysis, and influence analysis, which map loosely to internal, vendor, and consumer populations.”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“Social networks are created from any collection of connections among a group of people and things.”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

“Passionate users of social media tools such as email, blogs, microblogs, and wikis”
― Derek Hansen, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World