study of more than 2 million messages on Usenet found that 27% of the postings were from people who posted only a single message. Conversely, the most active 3% of posters contributed 25% of the messages. Furthermore, at the time I wrote this, 167,113 of Amazon�s book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers ; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. use it.com Alertbox Oct. 2006 Participation Inequality in Social Design Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, October 9, 2006: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute Summary:

All Internet shoppers know the famous Amazon list -- "people that bought this item also bought these items...". On the surface this appears to be a simple list, but underneath it reveals much about the Amazon customers making choices. Amazon book data can reveal much about the sociology around book purchases , especially political book purchases . People make choices every day -- for themselves and for their organizations. What to buy? Who to hire?

While the book is ready to download right now, the book is available to buy in print , on Kindle , and other electronic book formats and I would like to encourage you to buy a printed copy of the book for a few reasons: Firstly, buying a copy sends a tremendous message to O’Reilly that they should continue to publish books (a) about community and (b) under a Creative Commons license. The book is available to buy on all the major Amazon sites: Canada France Germany Japan United States United Kingdom Even if you don’t buy it, I would be hugely grateful

and a Facebook-"Wall" style messaging system for individual and group friend messaging called the Board. Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick | February 28, 2008 5:54 PM RWW SPONSORS Grab this swicki from eurekster.com RECENT JOBS POPULAR TAGS google facebook twitter iphone microsoft search mobile yahoo social media music video social networking apple myspace semantic web trends advertising rss mobile web youtube friendfeed amazon blogging enterprise

there are no books about McCain or Biden that made the Amazon cut-off for "most popular political books." The book about Palin -- Sarah -- is the only popular book about the Republican team. the Right focus on fewer books to get their message across. As both presidential campaigns sprint toward the finish line I took one more look at the political books being bought in October 2008 and the patterns they created. The arrows in the network map above show which books were "also bought" together. A-->B shows that customers who bought A , also bought B .

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This picture is from an earlier post: In Building a User Community Part 1 we talked about the importance of not only a strict "There Are No Dumb Questions" policy, but also an even more dedicated "There Are No Dumb Answers " message. This could be anywhere from Amazon product reviews to technical discussion boards and even comments on related blogs. * Make these folks life-time "charter members" with special privileges and recognition as founders that nobody else will ever get. * Have levels and rewards for participating (but again, not money --that totally changes the motivation,

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