Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL. Once participants do a low tech drawing, we move to explore some of the online mapping and SNA tools to visualize online networks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. SNA is a visual, quantitative measurement tool that has been used across disciplines since the 1950's. In fact, the Arizona sector works that way, too — we often connect to each other through hubs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

OCTribe meetup sna community management nodexl online community meetup social network analysis cmgr' Crystal Coleman is a community manager and consultant in Silicon Valley as well as a writer for Persephone Magazine. She blogs regularly and tweets at @ThatGirlCrystal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He showed an example of this in an online community SNA and pointed out the lurkers, conversation starters, trolls, based on particular patterns in the map. . An individual's online social behavior and connections can be looked at against social networking analysis characteristics and different profiles or roles are then created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Social Network Analysis Mapping For example, the organization lists developed from crawls can be an initial list of who to include in classic social network analysis (SNA) that can show links between individuals, parts of organizations, an issue system, or subset of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

She also observes that organizations cannot necessarily control how their organization is being portrayed or assocated in an individuals SNA profile.

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