Stimulating social engagement in a community network

Millen, David R.; Patterson, John

doi:10.1145/587119.587121

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“…While 33% of the users have not contributed content to Beehive, this is not an enormous surprise, as we expect to have a substantial lurker population as the community matures [26]. Figure 4 breaks down the user contribution levels by the different content types, to show that most users are making connections on the site and a third of the users are setting their status message.…”

Section: Overview Of Site Growth and Patternsmentioning

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Motivations for social networking at work

DiMicco

Millen

Geyer

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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The introduction of a social networking site inside of a large enterprise enables a new method of communication between colleagues, encouraging both personal and professional sharing inside the protected walls of a company intranet. Our analysis of user behavior and interviews presents the case that professionals use internal social networking to build stronger bonds with their weak ties and to reach out to employees they do not know. Their motivations in doing this include connecting on a personal level with coworkers, advancing their career with the company, and campaigning for their projects.

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Section: Overview Of Site Growth and Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivations for social networking at work

DiMicco

Millen

Geyer

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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“…e-Neighborhood [17] offered different forums for reviews of local business and services, classifieds and events. The Carlisle Community Center designers reported that some discussion topics such as politics and local issues related to danger and novelty were more appealing to the neighbors as they generated more participation in the discussion forums [21]. Based on this observation, they suggested that purposefully seeding these sorts of topics might be an effective approach to increasing participation in community networks.…”

Section: Community Networkmentioning

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Consequences of content diversity for online public spaces for local communities

López

Butler

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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While there is significant potential for social technologies to strengthen local communities, creating viable online spaces for them remains difficult. Maintaining a reliable content stream is challenging for local communities with their bounded emphases and limited population of potential contributors. Some systems focus on specific information types (e.g. restaurant, events). Others allow many different information types. This paper reports our findings about the consequences of content diversity from a study of neighborhoodoriented Facebook groups. The findings raise questions about the viability of designs for local online communities that focus narrowly on single

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“…For example, the social exchange theory (Thibaut & Kelly, 1959) and the reciprocal altruism theory (Trivers, 1971) state that people will invest only when they can expect something in return. Erickson and Kellogg (2000) as well as Millen and Patterson (2002) argue that visualising people and their actions in a network can enhance members' contribution and participation, in particular when the benefits of these actions are made visible. Ling et al (2005) found an increase in contribution in Movielens -a web-based movie recommender site-when the site would indicate to the members how unique they and their contributions were; whereas Lui et al (2002) refer to intrinsic and external motivational factors, or personal and interpersonal factors.…”

Section: Participation In Online Communitiesmentioning

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Personal profiles: enhancing social interaction in learning networks

Berlanga

Bitter-Rijpkema

Brouns

et al. 2011

IJWBC

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Abstract. Nowadays, we witness a surge of online profiling sites; in them people make their profile available to others with the intention to share it and get in touch with others, find old friends, classmates or colleagues, or look for new opportunities. Given their capacity to encourage members to be connected with other members and their growing popularity, we hold that some lessons can be learned from such profiling sites. In this paper's initial exploration, we analyze some of the most popular profiling sites to spot indications on profile composition and the affordances they use to encourage people to interact and to establish connections with other members. Based on this we discuss the importance of personal profiles depicting the characteristics and support mechanisms needed to enhance social interaction in Learning Networks. We also present results of a pilot survey of actual use and perception of user profile sites, and comment on the current views and findings about this topic in the Web-Based Communities Conference of 2008.

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Stimulating social engagement in a community network

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Motivations for social networking at work

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