All tagged participation
"We've just killed the buzzword of collaboration" is how Manager Tools close their recent podcast on the topic.
Just because someone doesn't actively participate (talk) in their community, this doesn't mean that the person and the community don't benefit.
There are many modes of participation in a community. Talk of lurking and the opposite seems rather one-sided.
Phil Wainewright has some thoughts around "Solving the 1:10:100% problem" of community participation: don't worry about it and focus on the people creating useful content.
The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.
The Guardian reports that about 1% of the people online actually create content, 10% interact with it, and the rest just view it. Good to know, if you are trying to make something happen.