If you build it will they come - Field of Dreams

field of dreamsJuly 27 2010

brian teeman

brian teeman

who am i?

crowd of geeks

crowd of geeks?

Joomla! builds web sites

community created

• 17.5 million downloads

• 400,000 thousand forum members

• 5,200 extensions

• 1-2% of all web sites

real life isn’t Hollywood

questions not answers

the site you can’t find

the site you read

the site you read and contribute to

wikipedia

90 - 9 - 1

participation inequality

• 90% read but don’t contribute

• 9% contribute occasionally

• 1% contribute often

just 1%

participation inequality

participation equality

improving equality

creep forward

•community

•rewards

•encouragement

•engagement

•productivity

flirting

flirt crowdsourcing

flirt crowdsourcing

•facilities

•language

•incentive

•rules

•tools

summary

5 key factors

the maths

that’s all - time is up

further reading• http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/

• http://pages.lithium.com/community-health-index.html

• http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell

• http://www.samiviitamaki.com/

• http://90-9-1.com/

• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

image credits

• Victor Drover

• David Deutz

• Sörn Peters

• http://sxc.hu

http://brian.teeman.net