Social Media Research Foundation Employee Directory
Technology, Information and InternetCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
The Social Media Research Foundation is a research-driven organization focused on developing open tools, hosting open data, and supporting open scholarship related to social media. Its work centers on mapping, measuring, and interpreting the landscape of social media to enable collection, analysis, and visualization of social networks, with a primary project being NodeXL, an open add-in for Excel that extends spreadsheet capabilities to handle network data. The foundation serves researchers and graduate students who study social media, providing tools and data resources to advance academic and exploratory work in this field. Based in Belmont, California, the organization operates within the technology, information, and internet sector and maintains a collaborative approach, expanding its data and tool offerings to support research that consumes open data formats. In recent developments, the foundation announced a new NodeXL Pro version that includes an importer for accessing data from a major social platform, reflecting ongoing efforts to broaden data access for researchers.