Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation - 0 views
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Thieme Hennis on 28 Aug 08Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software. The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and most tend to be free riders upon community value. But patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence. To illustrate this, Ross Mayfield drafted the Power Law of participation. Interesting. Onion model? Lurkers vs Posters?