{"id":153,"date":"2017-05-11T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/?p=153"},"modified":"2017-05-11T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:35:11","slug":"153-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/153-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Networks Ahoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone whose online presence is not very extensive, there were still some surprises. I had chosen to map out my LinkedIn connections and a Twitter feed that I follow (as I myself don’t have any followers…).<\/p>\n

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By using Socilab’s LinkedIn Network Visualization and Analysis tool, I was able to create the visualization seen above. I’m represented by the blue dot in the center. Not surprisingly, I have a cluster of interconnected dots representing my colleagues in the education field. In my experience, I’ve found that\u00a0the educational researcher community is quite tight-knit (at least in Ontario). I feel I have the opportunity to grow this segment. There are also a number of outliers that aren’t connected to each other and these are some of my social connections that I’ve connected to on LinkedIn. While the differing industries isn’t surprising, it’s interesting that they aren’t connected. Some of them don’t know each other, but I know that some do. The choice of whether to connect on certain platforms but not others is fascinating.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/tweepsmap.com\/search\/report\/1536664<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I generated this second image from an analytics and visualization tool called tweepsmap. It’s quite useful in generating reports on who’s following you and which tweets are generating the most activity. I follow the local TV station here in Toronto called CP24 and I mapped out their following with tweepsmap. News media typically get a large following which is not surprising, but the fact that there are followers in 5 countries and 12 cities (for a local station) is impressive. My guess would be many of those followers are expats who want to keep track of what’s going on at home.<\/p>\n

Mapping out my LinkedIn connections showed me just who I’m connected with. It’s not a coincidence that those connected closest to me are the ones I work with more regularly. The network could definitely be built out more (both in education and other). Of course I will never have the reach of the likes of CP24, but each connection I make could have a multiplier effect of opening new links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone whose online presence is not very extensive, there were still some surprises. I had chosen to map out my LinkedIn connections and a Twitter feed that I follow (as I myself don’t have any followers…). By using Socilab’s LinkedIn Network Visualization and Analysis tool, I was able to create the visualization seen above.… Continue reading Networks Ahoy!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}