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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. This was an attempt to find out the ratio of contribution to ???lurking???

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. communities as well. Look forward.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is your post to comment ratio? Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Demographics How many people visit the site? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. What do they click on?

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