Tools
From Webnographers
Research Tools
Digital Research Tools - Extremely thorough directory of research tools, organized by category
Citation Management
Endnote Web - Free web version of the popular citation management software Endnote.
Mendeley - Free reference management tool for desktop & web.
Zotero - A Firefox extension that enables citation management for online resources.
Context Mining
Context Miner - a framework to collect, analyze, and present contextual information along with the data from a variety of source.
Copyright
Brewer, Michael. 2010. Fair Use Evaluator. American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy.
Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office. 2009. Fair Use Checklist. Columbia University Libraries/Information Services Center for Digital Research and Scholarship.
Data Bases
Data.gov. 2010. Data.gov. (The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government).
Data.gov.uk. 2010. Data.gov.uk. (Unlocking Innovation; working with the UK public; Sector Information and Data).
Data Collection
140kit. 2010. 140kit - Tweets Data Collection and Analysis.
Games
McGonigal, Jane, Robert Hawkins, Kiyash Monsef, Nathan Verrill, Ken Eklund, Thiru Naidoo-Swettenham. 2010. EVOKE - The goal of the social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. blog.urgentevoke.net. World Bank Institute.
Internet Research Email Lists
Association of Internet Researchers' Email list - Association of Internet Researchers - http://aoir.org/
Mind Mapping
The Brain. Powerful visual navigation and associative linking; Unlimited number of Thoughts and links; Multiple Thought selection, deletion and linking; Add Web pages to Thoughts; Built in HTML editor for Notes; Thought types, tags and properties; Instant search and full content search; Use BrainZips to quickly backup your Brain or
Bubbl.Us - Create interconnected bubble-maps that can be shared with mentors, colleagues, and students, embedded into blogs or websites, e-mailed or printed out.
FreeMind - Easy to use mind mapping software with useful set of features.
Social Media Classroom
Social Media Classroom - Free open source web platform developed by Howard Rheingold for creating a virtual classroom using social media tools (such as blogs, rss, microblogging, widgets, video, etc). Bunch of other teaching goodies, too.
Social Network Visualization Tools
Gephi Gephi is an open source platform which aims to explore graphs and complex systems like you manipulate images in Photoshop. This is currently the fastest graph visualization engine in open source, and provide an interactive way to handle networks, apply layouts and metrics, filter data and see the dynamics. It's free and runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. Watch an introduction in video here: http://vimeo.com/9726202. A quick start tutorial is available here: http://gephi.org/2010/quick-start-tutorial/
NameGen 4 - SNS Edition NameGen 4 is a tool for collecting, analyzing and interacting with ego-centered networks. Using NameGen, you can download, analyze, sort, query, visualize and export social networks downloaded from social network sites. (The program currently supports Facebook, future versions will support Twitter and others).
NodeXL is the network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007, a free and open social network analysis and visualization extension to the familiar spreadsheet. NodeXL contains multiple social media network import "spigots" to create networks from Twitter, personal email, flickr, and other data sets in matrix, csv, GraphML, Pajek, and UCINet formats. A tutorial guide to social network analysis and NodeXL is available from the University of Maryland, College of Information Science, Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information.
The Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON). web-based software for the collection and analysis of online network data; incorporates web mining, data visualisation, and social network analysis (SNA). VOSON-sns - a Drupal module for collecting and analysing SNA data from a Drupal social network site. To be released early in 2010. VOSON NodeXL Data Provider - a plugin for NodeXL (Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel), which is a template for Excel 2007. The VOSON NodeXL Data Provider plugin allows VOSON account holders users to access VOSON System functionality (data collection and processing) from within NodeXL.
Surveys
Survey Monkey - A simple way to create surveys.
Lime Survey - easy and free open source survey application.
Statistics
Altman, Micah. 2010. The Impoverished Social Scientist's Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources. Cambridge, MA: maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu
Textual Analysis
Internet Community Text Analyzer - Web-based system for textual analysis of online communities, forums, and social networks.
User Experience Research
Webnographer - A task-based user experience research tool that combines questionnaires with advanced webanalytics data.
Virtual Worlds
Open Simulator - Open source virtual world software, which can communicate with Second Life as well as draw from its library.
Second Life - A 3-D, emerging, virtual world and society, with a currency, which residents can build.
Wikis
MediaWiki - Free, server side Wiki.
PBWiki - Free Wiki.
Wikia Wikis - Free Wiki.
