Quotes from Derek Hansen

Passionate users of social media tools such as email, blogs, microblogs, and wikis

Social networks are created from any collection of connections among a group of people and things.

Network analysis can be focused, they argue, on three separate regions of commerce: organizational network analysis, value network analysis, and influence analysis, which map loosely to internal, vendor, and consumer populations.

Network analysis is a relatively recent scientific method for describing and analyzing a web of links among entities, including people.

Social network analysis offers a systematic method to evaluate social media efforts, replacing anecdotes with scientifically based evidence.