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85% of Facebook’s 955M Active Users Are “Creating Content”

The Realtime Report

.” In Facebook’s case, the majority are participating and creating; but according to eMarketer’s Debra Aho Williamson, Facebook’s 85% is a “weird stat” since the definitely of content creation is so broad (AdAge). Is clicking the like button really an act of content creation? What do you think?

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How to Manage Facebook Relationships: Reciprocal Friends and 1-Way Subscriptions

Ari Herzog

I’ll try to explain… The Definition of a Friend. While my definition of a friend has changed since joining the social networking site in 2005, the core remains the same: Friends are people who I know in the flesh, share an interest or two, and consider socially compatible. Confused yet?

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A Tale of Two Communities Part 1 – Volkswagen

SocialFish

It is easy to be a “lurker&# and yet learn a great deal from the community. While each outpost has its own core group of users, the lurkers or casual users are welcomed and encouraged in all activities. New members are welcomed with open arms. Free advice and tech support is shared openly thorughout the groups.

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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. Including specific questions in posts definitely helps get higher numbers of comments. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash.

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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. Including specific questions in posts definitely helps get higher numbers of comments. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash.

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Arguing is innovation, expelled for cursing & pirate duel on your phone

Jeff Esposito

This is definitely worth bookmarking. What Should You Do With Your Lurkers? Does your community have lurkers? Everyone also likes to argue and in this article, effective arguing tactics are outlined. Seriously how can you expel a kid for cussing in a Tweet? If so, you might want to peep out this post.

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

Waxing UnLyrical

What is that if not the definition of “authoritative”? ’ Add to that the fact that the vast majority of content is consumed by people who can best be defined as ‘lurkers’ and people who never leave blog [comments]… measuring the efficacy of content by the number of comments received has never been effective.

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