Pew documents the power of participation

Submitted by yelvington on November 27, 2006 - 3:13pm

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:



Comments

Submitted by tish grier (not verified) on November 27, 2006 - 4:38pm

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

Submitted by yelvington on November 27, 2006 - 5:26pm

Good catch. Linked now. Thanks.

Submitted by Media Blog (not verified) on November 27, 2006 - 10:30pm

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

I just linked to this post.

Submitted by yelvington on November 28, 2006 - 11:19am

... for presentations.

Submitted by Tom Britt (not verified) on November 28, 2006 - 6:13pm

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.