Social Networks
Entries related to social networks, group psychology, anthropology, and really any of the social sciences.
#FollowFriday @lnreynolds @joecascio @nateosit @cherylbudge @cjpwisdomphotos @vcha_advocacy @cartooninperson
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 20:42This week, I used Follow Friday Helper to come up with my list of people to follow. Basically, the list fits into two different groups. The first group is friends from the health care social media circles, especially people working with community health centers.
@lnreynolds @nateosit @vcha_advocacy and @cartooninperson fall into this category. I’ve known @lnreynolds the longest. We’ve often talked social media and community health centers via many channels. I haven’t known @nateosit quite as long, and I don’t believe I’ve met him face to face yet. He’s a little more on the geeky side, which I enjoy. @vcha_advocacy and @cartooninperson are fairly new people for me to be talking about CHC related stuff with.
The other group is the Connecticut group, @joecascio, @cherylbudge, and @cjpwisdomphotos. These are all people I’ve met face to face and have communicated a lot with. I’ve been to Joe’s house. He’s drank my hard cider, and I hope he had a great birthday. I’ve met Cheryl at various social media events. Ending out the list is @cjpwisdomphotos. I’ve only met him a few times, but we communicate a bit via different channels.
So, that’s this week’s #ff
Latest Empire Avenue Stuff
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 21:17Yesterday, I shared a post on one of the discussion groups on Empire Avenue about my latest Empire Avenue programming and trading strategy. (Read more below the fold.)
Wordless Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 18:59
#ff #ct #politics @ChrisDonovanCT @ChrisMurphyCT @JoeCourtneyCT @RepJoeCourtney @BlakeForMilford @journalinquirer @CTNewsJunkie
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 06:42As we head into the political season, I thought I should highlight some of the candidates that I follow on Twitter, as this Follow Friday (#FF) post. For those who are Twitter regulars, hashtags, like #ff, #ct, and #politics are ways of marking topics when you have only 140 characters to use, and Twitter accounts regularly start with an at-sign to indicate they are twitter accounts.
I’m starting off with @ChrisDonovanCT. Chris is running for Congress in the fifth district and this is his campaign Twitter account. He will be opening his campaign headquarters in Meriden this evening after starting his tour around the district this week.
There is a site called Klout which measures the influence a person has on Twitter. It is a scale of 0 to 100, and Chris’ Klout currently comes in at 29.
Next, is @ChrisMurphyCT. Chris Murphy is currently the Congressman from the fifth district and he’s running for U.S. Senate. I ran into Chris last week at an even in New Haven. He says that he’s been working on his social media and his campaign twitter account has a Klout score of 50.
Joe Courtney has two Twitter accounts that I follow. One is his reelection campaign twitter account. It has a Klout score of 1, with only 167 followers and hasn’t been updated since February. His Twitter account as Congressman, @RepJoeCourtney has is much more active and has a Klout score of 48.
At the end of the list for today is @BlakeForMilford. Friends of mine live in Milford and had been asking me about Ben’s online presence. @BlakeForMilford only has 25 followers, hasn’t been updated since July, and doesn’t even have a Klout score yet.
For those of you who don’t want to follow the politicians directly, there is always the Journal Inquirer with over a thousand followers and a Klout score of 31 and @CTNewsJunkie with over 3000 followers and a Klout score of 43.
These days more and more politicians are using Twitter to get their message out. President Obama mentioned Twitter in his speech last night, so it remains More and more news organizations are using Twitter to highlight their headlines, and everyone can benefit from this by checking out specific Twitter accounts, even if they choose not to tweet themselves.
#EAv API Reflections
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 09:20Last week, I finally got around to doing a little Empire Ave programming. I know that the new API is supposed to be coming out any day, but it should be similar to the current API and will hopefully just add some of the functionality that I’ve been currently missing. I’ve been doing my Empire Ave programming in shell scripts, PHP and Excel, and have yet to put together all the pieces. Hopefully, I will add some applications to my website for others to use when I make a little more progress, and I hope people with share their ideas and experiences with Empire Ave programming.
Years ago, I worked as a technology executive on Wall Street before moving over to being a social media manager, so the idea of Empire Avenue, and especially creating applications for it, is very appealing. I figured a good starting point would be some simple portfolio analytics. So, I got my API key, and started testing. The first call I tried was portfolio/base. It didn’t really provide much for information, so I moved over to portfolio/get, which provides much more information. (The geeky stuff is below the fold).
