Social Media Project

• This page is referenced in Social Media Entrepreneurship Resources

Project Goals

• Map the Houston Ecosystem
  • So that we can have comparison ecosystems for analysis (if we can train a computer to do it)
• Find all of the 'policy players' (like Kauffman, the SBA, etc.)
  • Use them to determine what policy changes are being promoted so that we can comment
  • Someone out there has a "9-point agenda" (or some such)
• Increase our twitter account popularity
  • Tweet about Houston entrepreneurship and innovation events
• Find out who are the key players on SM in the entrepreneurship field
  • Why are these players so influential?

Things to do

• Monitor tweets with the relevant entrepreneurship and innovation hashtags, i.e.
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Startup
  • Vision

Mapping Social Network

Data mapping technology and ideas

• http://flowingdata.com/
• https://github.com/gephi/gephi
• How to map social media “kingpins”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/47838369-75fb-39d3-9e2c-e4ed75c96c0b
• http://www.smrfoundation.org/2015/09/25/nodexl-pro-advanced-support-for-mapping-social-media-networks/

Top hashtags for entrepreneurship: http://www.socialquant.net/popular-twitter-hashtags/