User Generated Content
Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.
I found this visual from Bradley Horowitz via Rashimi Sinha's powerpoint from the IA Summit. I've been following her work for a while. This is an illustration of the next generation of the social web. People watching objects and having conversations about the tags. It looks like the participation rates are similar for other online communities.
This is a variation of the One Percent Rule, which basically says on any given online community, one percent of visitors create, 10% contribute and the remaining 89% lurk. It's amazing how these rough numbers actually hold true on so many different online communities, from email lists to wikipedia....
Posted by: andy carvin | March 30, 2007 at 12:55 PM