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Pew documents the power of participation

November 27, 2006 - 3:13pm — yelvington

In a recent report on Web 2.0, the Pew Internet & American Life project documents the performance of three participatory websites against their more conventional counterparts: Photobucket vs. Kodakgallery, Wikipedia vs. Encarta, Myspace vs. Geocities. The comparisons are compelling. I'll skip the thousand words and just pass along the pictures:



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November 27, 2006 - 4:38pm — tish grier (not verified)

link?

Steve: could we have the link to the Pew study? thanks :-)

November 27, 2006 - 5:26pm — yelvington

The Pew study

Good catch. Linked now. Thanks.

November 27, 2006 - 10:30pm — Media Blog (not verified)

participation rules

I found something similar in August using the much less scientific Alexa. post here

I just linked to this post.

November 28, 2006 - 11:19am — yelvington

Fodder

... for presentations.

November 28, 2006 - 6:13pm — Tom Britt (not verified)

Participation or Viral?

In marketing terminology, it used to be called "viral marketing". Now it is called "participation". I'm going to backlink to this post, your stats say a thousand words. People like to be engaged and be a part of the online communities they 'participate' in. I'm building such local websites in my local communities, http://atGeist.com and http://atFishers.com.

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