On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:49:41 -0800
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/10/01 8:04 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Populations tend to group internally. More interestingly (I've
>> found this a challenge for my own lists), high signal venues
>> don't tend to attract memberships who then promote and advertise
>> those forums.
> I think that's true. I'd never considered it quite that way. It
> makes an interesting issue on marketing of lists and
> communities. Hmm.
Surprisingly it has been enough to found a non-profit Usenix-like
association for the topic (a direct spin-off of my list).
> I see that same kind of attitude on some lists: who cares if
> everyone's fighting, since I'm on top and it flows down! to a
> degree, that's the domain of the troll....
Yep, the problems of list peerage.
> And I think that's the key to succeeding in these smaller
> net-venues. Find the right places for word-of-mouth to work. And
> it's not always easy to know what they are ahead of time...
I've tended more to just ensuring that signal was high and that the
list could be found be someone looking for signal in that field
(this is mostly a function of making sure that the list archives are
indexed by all the search engines). I've reached the point where
most people in the field just refer to it as "the list" on the
blanket assumption that "everybody knows what it is".
I'm not really sure what else can be done from there.
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J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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