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…
Category: Social Media
Exercice NodeXL (Français – 2017)
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…
From Smart Mobs to Smart Govs
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…
From “What” to “How”: A Twitter Discussion Analysis
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,…
Who’s leading the #لبنانيون_ضد_حزبالله discussion?
A new trending hashtag, #لبنانيون_ضد_حزبالله has emerged in the past few days, following the televised resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Lebanon and the start of the Lebanese-KSA crisis. We briefly analyze the “Lebanese against Hezbollah” hashtag to better understand its origin and its propagation on Twitter. Our sample of 117 tweets…
One Year of Presidency in Lebanon – A Twitter Discussion Analysis
The Sample The following analysis is based on a sample of 11,919 tweets extracted using Twitter’s API. The search term for this sample is #سنة_من_عمر_وطن which is the “one year from a country’s life” hashtag launched by the President’s movement(s). Twitter’s Search API is focused on relevance and not completeness. This means that some Tweets…
AUB – OSB – Social Media Strategy Course 2017
I would like to thank all my guests, Mr. Rachad Saddi (EMEA Channel Partner Manager, Global Partnerships at Google), Mrs. Michèle Khalifé (Head of Marketing and Communication at Total Liban), Mrs. Rita Hayek (Actress), Mr. George Khalaf (YouTuber and Film Director) for joining in and sharing their experience with my students. Special thanks to…
The Use of Fake Profiles on Facebook for Business and Research
My presentation at the Responsible Organizations in the Global Context (ROGC) conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 15-16 June 2017 https://www.slideshare.net/nasrim/the-use-of-fake-profiles-on-facebook-for-business-and-research
K2PCenter Training
Third training session about Twitter discussion analysis at the Knowledge to Policy (#K2Pcenter) Center of the American University of Beirut. Social Graph visualization using NodeXL. Thanks for all those who joined the #k2pworkshop discussion.
Facebook Cover Template with Mobile Safe Area (2017, Photoshop)
This is the new Photoshop template for Facebook page covers. It helps create compatible layouts for both Retina Display devices and mobile devices. Usage is fairly simple. The initial display is self explanatory: the purple area is the part of the cover that will be visible on mobile. The full frame will appear on desktops….