Yesterday Suzanne posted “How to reach critical mass?” in EduBloggerWorld forum. She said “Every new education community I have joined has been slow to get off the ground, and eventually, I will stop coming and checking, as there is nothing new to read or respond to”.
Having been involved with several online communities, I [...]
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Creating Thriving Online Communities
Posted by Sue Waters on Wednesday, September 5th 2007
Categorized in Tips for Social networking
Expectations of Collaboration and Participation in online environments
Posted by Sue Waters on Monday, May 7th 2007
I have been doing some more thinking and research about Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox article Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (October 9, 2006) where he states” User participation often more or less follows a 90-9-1 rule:
90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute)
9% of users contribute from time to [...]
Categorized in Tips for Social networking, Working With Web 2.0 Tools
Social Networking: Why should Participation Inequality matter if we all gain?
Posted by Sue Waters on Tuesday, May 1st 2007
What is the point of social networking if people won’t participate? Inequality of participation (i.e. large number of users but only a very small percentage of the users actually contribute) is a common frustration for online forums, blogs, wikis and social networking sites.
I know myself I often think what is the point in contributing [...]
Categorized in Tips for Social networking
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