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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. It might frustrate you to know that LOTS of people are lurkers. People who like results don’t like digital lurkers, because they can’t be tracked. I know I have a LOT of lurkers on my site. 640 Million on Facebook.

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10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog

ProBlogger

A Jakob Nielsen study once found that 90% of online community users are lurkers (read or observe without contributing) with only 9% of users contributing ‘a little’ and 1% actively contributing. Some bloggers actually like it like this and switch comments off. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash. Be Open Ended.

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10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog

ProBlogger

A Jakob Nielsen study once found that 90% of online community users are lurkers (read or observe without contributing) with only 9% of users contributing ‘a little’ and 1% actively contributing. Some bloggers actually like it like this and switch comments off. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash. Be Open Ended.

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The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?

ProBlogger

A new blogger is born today! This baby blogger does not know the perils of comment moderation, stalkers, low traffic, and spam that await her. I wonder what type of blogger she’ll be. With millions of bloggers out there, there are a certain number of very identifiable qualities that are seen. The Machine.

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

Waxing UnLyrical

So when you’d research bloggers for outreach, that was a huge factor. For example, take these two posts by Mark Schaefer , indisputably an A-lister. Back in the day – and I’m talking not that long ago – the number of comments you got on your blog were a big deal. So those were part of your core suite of metrics.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

SocialFish

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. The Answers community is an amazing example of this.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

For example @shitmydadsays (0 engagement account) – @jetblue and @groupon (low level engagement). For example @shitmydadsays (0 engagement account) – @jetblue and @groupon (low level engagement). link] [link] Kirsten Khire #7 – lurkers or inactive accts? Lots of lurkers. Lots of lurkers.