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When I started out with psychographic text analysis a few years ago sentiment analysis was the craze. If I told anyone about the idea to analyze the psychological traits of someone online most (action oriented) people directly asked me about if I could do sentiment analysis. Some people still do. The thing is that I´m … Read more

A tweet by Bobby Bear has gotten retweeted and Bubba Bear has been wondering if there is some pattern behind what tweets get retweeted. That leads them to psychologists and text analysts such as James W Pennebaker and social media scientists such as Dan Zarella. They even mention yours truly! Trailer: Watch the full movie … Read more

Update: I took five weeks off from Facebook and re-activated it again, now more conciouss about what streams and conversations I engage in. Before christmas I decided to try not being active on Facebook to see how it felt. It felt really good – so now I´m deactivating my personal profile. Why do I do … Read more

I often hear people complain about what people publish in social media. “Why would I want to know what people eat for dinner with their relatives or them bragging about how exciting lives they pretend to live ?!”. The funny thing is that it´s only people that normally HAVE that kind of conversations with their … Read more

How to: Give link love (video)

November 16th, 2010 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Practical - (0 Comments)

The Internet runs on love. But not everyone online knows how to give love by linking to a person or an idea that they would like to give a little concrete love to. Because, since search engines like Google rank pages based primarily on how many inlinks (that is: people like you that have linked … Read more

I held a little workshop here at Ängsbacka today about getting started with social media and(postpost-?) modern tools like Google Docs, Reader etc. We started out by the discussing the WHY´s about using these tools. Why change? Most people today are used to using a mail-client and Microsoft Office and a lot of people working … Read more

Reputation, and the trust that comes out of it, is perhaps the most important asset in a networked world. There´s really just two ways to manage your reputation: either you put lipstick on the pig or you put a web cam in it´s sty. The first strategy is often referred to as marketing (unfortunately, but … Read more

I believe that it is possible to predict people’s interests by looking at their written language. This can be done by identifying a few psychological traits that shine through in personal relaxed texts such as Tweets or blogs. To accomplish this, we need large amounts of data on each individual and large amounts of individuals … Read more

I was asked by Ulrika Ingemarsdotter what books hard working communication professional ought to read to grasp as much as possible about social media. Beeing a bookie-guy I really enjoyed the question and here comes my ten cents on the subject. When writing this post I realize that Amazon.com is really WORKING! Try searching for … Read more

Social Media Measurement 101

March 6th, 2009 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Practical - (1 Comments)

I agree upon the need to sort things out about providers of social media measurement. I´ve done some research over the past years and also have had the opportunity to meet a lot of people here in Sweden involved in measurement of social media. Here´s my ten cents on how customers can choose between providers … Read more