The Power of a Tweet

April 24, 2013 – 1:51 pm

On Tuesday April 23, 2013  at 1:07pm the Associated Press Twitter account was hacked and the following tweet was posted : It was confirmed a minute later that in fact nothing out of the ordinary had occurred at the white house, and that president Barack Obama was fine. Yet,  in that one minute, the Dow

By Will Eizlini | Posted in Social Media Trends, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

HootSuite Nexalogy App launch

October 30, 2012 – 8:03 am

Trying to keep up with your Twitter timeline can be a challenge if you follow more than a few hundred people.  It can be a pain point if you are managing a Twitter account following thousands of people. Listing hundreds of tweets can make you spend time trying to see the forest one tree at

By Claude G. Théoret | Posted in Nexalogy Events & Activities, Nexalogy News, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Comments (0)

New Orleans And Social Capital

August 29, 2012 – 7:51 am

As hurricane Isaac batters New Orleans, seven years after Katrina, it’s worthwhile to ask a few questions about recovery after disasters, specifically why some places never seem to bounce back from disaster. And New Orleans has never really bounced back from Katrina. New Orleans has the highest per capita murder rate in the US, and

By Stowe Boyd | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Can Suicide Be Averted By Social Network Analysis?

August 14, 2012 – 6:17 pm

New research suggests that people with suicidal tendencies don’t differ from others just because they think about suicidal acts, but because they are not embedded in social ‘neighborhoods’ where their online contacts know each other. It appears that they are isolated in their social graphs: Spotting Suicidal Tendencies on Social Networks via MIT Technology Review It turns

By Stowe Boyd | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Ostracism is community

August 11, 2012 – 3:15 pm

Ok “Ostracism is Community”  sounds very Orwellian.  It could very well be a mantra for a dictatorship based on isolating people or one of the lines from The Sphinx in Mystery Men. But there is something to this mantra.  The story starts with Stowe, as many stories do.  In our discussions he had brought up

By Claude G. Théoret | Posted in Social Media Analysis, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

PwC Shines a Light on the Nexalogy Model

May 24, 2012 – 11:18 am

We were profiled in PwC, Nice one! Here at Nexalogy we have been developing new ways to cut to the heart of online conversations and reveal the discussions that matter most. We have been putting social media intelligence technology to work to find better business intelligence solutions. This week, we are happy to report these

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Nexalogy Environics makes SxSW Interactive debut

March 9, 2012 – 3:11 pm

Nexalogy is pleased to be making its debut appearance at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. We have an exciting slate of activities planned for the South by Southwest weekend. Partnered with North of 41, Nexalogy CEO Claude Theoret will be presenting alongside SoKap on Friday, March 9 during a presentation on

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Social Discovery and The Power Of Weak Ties

March 7, 2012 – 9:59 am

The rise of smartphones and other web-capable mobile devices has changed that way that we wander around. Yes, the use of gps-enabled mapping applications — Google Maps, and its competitors — have completely transformed the way that we negotiate our surroundings spatially. And the integration of gps-based search and direction-finding has been revolutionary. It has

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When tech intelligence exceeds collective wisdom

February 24, 2012 – 11:22 am

At the height of the Cold War, I was a 15-year-old farm boy and I was half convinced that we were heading for a scenario straight out of “The Day After”  or, at best, a “Red Dawn”. The Russians were kicking our ass at hockey and, according to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, our farm was in

By Claude G. Théoret | Posted in Physics and Social Media, Social Media Analysis, Social Media Trends, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

What Makes The Most Creative Teams?

February 17, 2012 – 7:00 am

Creativity is one of the central themes of modern business thinking, and those companies that can consistently tap into a creative mother lode — think Job’s Apple, or Branson’s Virgin — become world-beaters while their competitors shrink. One theory is that the geniuses at the top of these creative dynasties — Steve Jobs, for example

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