Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.

Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.

So, here are a few tips used by javaranch, one of the most successful user communities on the planet (3/4 million unique visitors each MONTH): 1) Encourage newer users--especially those whove been active askers --to start trying to answer questions One way to help is by making sure that the moderators are not always the Ones Who Know All. 2) Give tips on how to answer questions Post articles and tips on how to answer questions, which also helps people learn to communicate better. Creating Passionate Users About Search CPU Blog Past favorites Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Code like a girl Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane When only the glib win, we all lose How to be an expert Creativity on speed Micromanagement: the Zombie Function The hi-res user experience Mediocrity by "areas of improvement" Death by risk-aversion Crash course in learning theory Free Range Posts (open

Today, this post will offer a few more tips on how to use your marketing budget (tiny as it may be) to build, support, and grow a user community from the beginning. * Host some kind of discussion forum (can include chat, wikis, and blogs as well), and do whatever it takes to get people there as soon as possible, ideally while the thing is still in beta (but its never too late to start!) * Look on other third-party forums where users are discussing (which usually means struggling) your product, and find the most active people. Tips for that are in this recent post on face-to-face ).

Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.

Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.

Ultimately, it may be their downfall. Patricia Seybold Group Web Site www.customers.com Recession tips more cool how to videos Observations LEAD USERS Eric von Hippel coined the term "lead users" to describe a group of both customers and non-customers who are passionate about getting certain things accomplished. You no longer win by having the smartest engineers and scientists; you win by having the smartest customers! CUSTOMER CO-DESIGN In more than

Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.

The tipping point for me was in the last month; I’ve heard about Twitter on national radio and national newspapers, and now I’m hearing it on national TV news and talk shows, the most notably Rove Live on 1/03/09 . but I’m refering to the distributed blogosphere that we all know (typepad, blogger, wordpress…all searchable via Google Blog Search) My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform . Back in 2006 I called

Freeman: The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science Wouter de Nooy: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking George S. View an alternate.