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Fresh Website 2023, LinkedIn and Instagram Badges

Posted on May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 by Nasri Messarra

After almost 30 years in the business of web development and hosting, I finally terminated my last hosting server and moved my own WordPress blog to shared hosting. I decided to start the website from scratch, just copying the wp_posts table from the old server to the new one. I had to recreate some of…

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Smart Govs III: How Political Players Sway Public Opinion

Posted on May 29, 2021May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

My input at the “Who investigates the crime?” webinar of the Forum for Memory and Future in partnership with the Institute of Political Science of the Saint-Joseph University Introduction The following work is a collection of tweets analysis (more than half a million tweets) that took place between 2015 and 2021. Discussions take several different…

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27 Video Formats and Styles to Inspire You

Posted on June 27, 2020May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

A collection of video styles to inspire your next post or campaign on social media or traditional media. 1. Narrator Video An invisible narrator is telling the story creating distance between you and the subject which can – depending on the story – give a feel of fantasy, romance, wonder, or expertise (if the voice…

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Combining Multiple Twitter Searches in NodeXL

Posted on June 6, 2020May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

There are two reasons you may need to combine different Twitter imports in NodeXL: You want to import tweets for the same search for a longer period than a week (Twitter’s limit) by re-importing the results for the same search every few days for the period you want to cover You want to add several…

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Using LostCircles’ Graphml files with NodeXL

Posted on October 1, 2018May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

LostCircles (https://lostcircles.com/) uses a proprietary format that NodeXL fails to open and use. Below is a workaround for this problem and a step by step approach to charting your Facebook network of friends: Open the “Graphml (No Pics)” file downloaded from LostCircles Find the <node id=”n0″> tag and delete all the text that precedes it Copy…

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Showing Bridging Nodes Only in NodeXL

Posted on September 17, 2018May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

Bridges (edges) and bridging nodes (vertices) in a network are essential in connecting cliques, moderating the debate and introducing new ideas and innovations and filling structural holes in a network (ref. Ronald S. Burt).   When you separate vertices in groups in NodeXL (figure), several columns are added to your “edges” sheet, mainly “Vertex 1…

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Converting VCF contacts to Excel or CSV

Posted on June 15, 2018May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

One VCF or several VCF? A VCF file can hold several contacts. So, you may have just one VCF for all your contacts (ideal) or one VCF for each contact. If this is the case, you need to merge all your contacts into one file. To do this, open your command prompt and use the…

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Exercice NodeXL (Français – 2017)

Posted on December 28, 2017May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

Nous avons collecté 16,057 tweets contenant le nom « trump » (semaine du 28 Décembre 2017). Vous pouvez installer et utiliser NodeXL Basic (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) ou simplement Excel pour consulter les données et variables (qui ont déjà été calculées) Regarder le graphe. Que pouvez-vous en déduire ? (se baser sur les modèles présentés dans l’article : http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/20/mapping-twitter-topic-networks-from-polarized-crowds-to-community-clusters/). Qui sont les…

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From Smart Mobs to Smart Govs

Posted on December 16, 2017May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

My presentation “From Smart Mobs to Smart Govs*” in the Tech4PoliticalChange panel at the Tech4Freedom conference that took place at the Riviera Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 of December 2017. *Smarts Govs is a term I have invented to describe governments, dictators, political establishment and political actors who learned how…

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From “What” to “How”: A Twitter Discussion Analysis

Posted on November 25, 2017May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

  On Nov. 5, 2017, after the resignation of Prime Minister Saad el Hariri on TV from KSA, the trending hashtag in Lebanon was #استقالة_سعد_الحريري (the resignation of Saad Hariri). The discussion on Twitter was revolving around the “What” happened. The day after, the discussion, on the contrary, was focused on the “How” it happened,…

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