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Re: The evolution of the community “industry”

Miles Sims — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:56:43 -0000

Interesting... I wonder if this ties to some of the comments made in the measuring community session where a number of the participants (YouTube, Google, LinkedIn) all mentioned finding ways to measure and engage the 9-percenters.

I guess the real question here is can you really grow the 1-percenters or does the community grow more through the natural turn-over and back-fill of that group?

Re: The evolution of the community “industry”

Jenna Woodul — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:28:18 -0000

Why/how are they pushed out? If their "leadership" is not sociable and keeps other people from saying anything (for fear of being flamed, for example, I could see pushing them out as a good strategy.

Re: The evolution of the community “industry”

Jake — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:17:02 -0000

Yeah, granted in Yahoo's case, their 1% may or may not be "real" users, and I think a strategy of "pushing out" is really really tricky and needs to be thought out VERY well. Definitely a "do no try this at home" move.

Re: The evolution of the community “industry”

ifarmer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:13:54 -0000

That's really interesting .. as we know that 1% do all the talking. It's very brave to push out half of them to create a vacuum. I'm sure most communities would be afraid that this would stop conversations.