Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute

Monday 16 July 2007 18:07 GDT

Title	Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute
Weblog	Gurteen Knowledge Weblog
Knowledge Letter	Appears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 85
Posted Date	Monday 16 July 2007 18:07 GDT
Posted By	David Gurteen
Links	http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

If you are running an on-line forum and wonder why people in your community are not participating as much as you would expect then see this article Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute from Jakob Nielsen.

90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don't contribute).
9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.
1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions

So if you have less than 100 people in your community - the forum may simply not be viable.

A big thanks to Ed Mitchell for making me aware of this document.

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