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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. Set Boundaries.

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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. Set Boundaries.

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910 Blog Comments You Wrote Here

Ari Herzog

99 is the number of comments about blog commenting systems as written by Danny Brown, indicating this is a touchy subject among bloggers and readers. Analytics indicate less people are commenting, but it is obvious you remain a committed lurker. Here is a short list of some older blog articles that are popular for a reason.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part 1 – Volkswagen

SocialFish

This post is the first 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. New members are welcomed with open arms.

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The Five Reasons Why Most Facebook Brand Pages Aren’t True Communities

Convince & Convert

Jessica Malnik is a PR/marketing coordinator, social media specialist, videographer and an avid blogger. Most of them are just casual observers or lurkers. Visit her blog for social media, technology, public relations and marketing ramblings. What are the defining characteristics of a community?

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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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