Nasri Messarra

Choosing the right target population for your ads is at the heart of any good marketing strategy, especially viral marketing and influence marketing strategies. One Facebook advertising feature that very few community managers are aware of is the fact that you can target your competitors fans. This strategy can be used either to “convert” the…

In this post, we will consider analyzing the Arabic hashtag  with NodeXL. If you’re searching for a Latin string or hashtag, go directly to step 3. 1- On some computers, searching for an non-Latin string may cause NodeXL to return a null result. The safest option is to convert the Arabic string to URL code….

A Facebook troll is someone who posts aggressive comments on your page – often immediately after you publish a post –  in an attempt of creating a firestorm of controversy.   Most often, these trolls do not like the page and it becomes impossible to ban them or stop them using the straightforward ban user function…

Some social plugins give you a total number of shares without specifying exactly where those shares came from. Also, you may need to find if someone shared your link on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites: Count your shares on Facebook: – http://graph.facebook.com/?id=YourURL, e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://nasri.messarra.com/use-two-steps-authentication-with-google-easy-steps/ Count your shares on Twitter: – http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=YourURL, e.g. http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://nasri.messarra.com/use-two-steps-authentication-with-google-easy-steps/…

This post is available as a PDF document.   In Facebook, search for the NetVizz application or follow this link:   Accept the permissions required to extract data from your timeline and pages Select “personal network”: Click on “start”: Right click on “gdf file” and save it Download and Install NetVizz to NodeXL converter Run…

This post is available as a PDF document. Why do we study social networks? Definition from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network: A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. Social networks and the analysis of them is…

This is a small conversion tool I have developed to convert NetVizz files (GDF) to NodeXL files (GraphML).   This tool works on all versions of Windows and has been tested with the “personal network” friends list extraction option in NetVizz.   NetVizz is a free Facebook App located at https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/. NetVizz extracts Facebook data…