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My Bet With Scott (continued)
It took me about three months to build a community for this blog with over 500 members.
I thought Techcrunch would do it in about a day when they put their reader roll on their front page.
Scott thought that it would take three days.
Well it's been a day and Techcrunch has almost caught up to me.
But a funny thing happened. I had about 450 members yesterday morning. I now have 510 members. I haven't added 60 members in a single day since the day I put the reader roll on my blog.
One of two things is happening. My post on MyBlogLog yesterday got more people to sign up (certainly a part of it) or the people joining at Techcrunch and elsewhere in the past day are also joining my community.
If the latter is a significant part of why this happened, then it points to the fact that networks of networks are a powerful community building tool.
I am going to dig into this.
Comments (6) | Posted October 24, 2006 in Venture Capital and Technology
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it's because you mentioned it... keep repeating it every couple of months and people will believe and do anything you say, as sure as Saddam was connected to 9/11 ...
Posted by: curmudgeonly troll | Oct 24, 2006 6:28:25 PM
Community is odd in that there can be a large community without a counting mechanism like MyBlogLog. We have been working our community site for engineers (shameless plug http://cr4.globalspec.com/ ) and one of the things that I had to wrap my head around was that our registered user base is NOT our community. Our community includes the lurkers and guests and tons of other people who for one reason or another don't feel like filling out the registration form. (And yes I am registered in yours.)
Numbers are great for an ego boost or for the metric gatherers. I know one of the constant questions that my higher ups ask is “How many users do you have?”, and the hard answer that we have to give is “That depends…” It’s nice to have a nice big registered user base as that seems to be the number that they want to know. But we also know that there are people who are not registered who come to the site several times a month, week and in some cases a several times a day (Gotta love cookies). We even allow them to post questions and comments as GUEST; so they interact with our community and add to it without being part of our registered user base.
So do you count just registered users as your community or does it include the 95% of the other people, people who might be active and invested in your community, but don’t seem to want to register for some odd reason?
Posted by: Brodda | Oct 25, 2006 11:27:17 AM
Your post prodded me to finally add a photo.
Posted by: jackson | Oct 25, 2006 12:58:38 PM
I signed up for MyBlogLog, and I think they have a lot of potential. They should work on the community side, though, giving users (and community leaders) more tools to interact between each other, take to a deeper level the converstions happening in blogs, share stuff etc.
Cheers,
Giordano
Posted by: Giordano | Oct 25, 2006 5:05:09 PM
Is it time for prediction markets 2.0?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov | Oct 25, 2006 9:51:47 PM
Well said Brodda.
Posted by: GilbertZ | Oct 26, 2006 11:54:16 PM
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