AIR-L’ers I’ve mostly been a lurker on the list since my time as a doc student several years ago. I’m pleased to share something that I think will be beneficial to the AIR-L community. It’s a new book titled “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL” that will be available early September from Elsevier/MorganKaufmann Publishers: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/723354/description The book is a nice introduction to social network analysis (SNA) and its application to social media (e.g., Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, email, forums, wikis). It describes basic network concepts as well as how to apply them using an Excel plugin called NodeXL: http://nodexl.codeplex.com. Myself (shakmatt@gmail.com), Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu), and Marc Smith (marc@connectedaction.net) are the primary authors, but there are excellent contributed chapters from other AIR-L researchers (see link above for the full list). I’ve been teaching with draft versions of the book to non-technical students at Maryland’s iSchool in my online communities class for a few semesters now and have received very positive feedback from students who were new to SNA. Others have been using the draft version of the book to teach courses in business schools, computer science, and sociology classes to students at the graduate and undergraduate level. If you want to look at an e-copy of the book to determine its usefulness for a course, please send an email to our editor, Rachel Roumeliotis (R.Roumeliotis@elsevier.com). Regards, Derek Hansen Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland