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 [...]
Creating Thriving Online Communities
September 5th, 2007 · 11 Comments
Tags: Tips for Social networking
Expectations of Collaboration and Participation in online environments
May 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Tips for Social networking · Working With Web 2.0 Tools
Social Networking: Why should Participation Inequality matter if we all gain?
May 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
