Hi Matt,
Seven percent is actually pretty good for an email list of more than
1,000 people. A few years ago I saw a study of email lists that
suggested the number of regular contributors was often less than five
percent. Most lists tend to be dominated by a core 1% of users, with
another five percent posting occasionally, another 10 percent posting
rarely, and the rest pretty much never - the classic
contributor/lurker divide. I've been running a couple of e-lists for a
long time (wwwedu for 12 years, digitaldivide for six) and I'd guess
that the participation level is about the same. Some people have
posted multiple times a week for years, while others have been on the
list from the beginning and they've never posted. When I've surveyed
them, the response is always the same - I enjoy the conversation but
never feel the need to comment publicly.
Having said that, I'm shocked I'm in the top 10 contributors. I always
thought of myself as a lurker on this list. It's all relative, I guess.
andy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, I decided take a closer look at the use of this
> Yahoo Group. Here are the results...
>
> The last 1,000 messages were analyzed from May 8, 2006 back to April
> 20, 2006 (18.5 days)...
>
> Only 152 unique users posted (7% of the total 2,179 members).
>
> Here are the top 50 users by number of posts...
>
> 80 Michael Sullivan
> 50 Devlon
> 43 Charles Iliya Krempeaux
> 39 David Meade
> 36 Markus Sandy
> 35 Deirdre Straughan
> 34 Michael Verdi
> 27 Andy Carvin
> 27 Casey McKinnon
> 24 robert a/k/a r
> 23 Anne Walk
> 21 Harold Johnson
> 20 Josh Leo
> 19 Joshua Kinberg
> 18 Enric
> 17 David Howell
> 17 Jen Simmons
> 17 Stephanie Bryant
> 16 andrew michael baron
> 15 Andreas Haugstrup
> 13 B Yen
> 13 Bill Streeter
> 13 Susan
> 12 Gena
> 12 Heath
> 11 jonny goldstein
> 11 usadutch2001
> 10 Ted Tagami
> 9 Chuck Olsen
> 9 Paul Knight
> 9 Steve Garfield
> 8 Jan
> 8 LeanBackVids.com
> 8 Mike Hudack
> 8 WWWhatsup
> 7 Josh Wolf
> 7 Randolfe Wicker
> 7 Richard (Show) Hall
> 7 Stan Hirson, Sarah J...
> 6 Adam Quirk
> 6 Jay dedman
> 6 Mike Moon
> 6 missbhavens1969
> 6 Nathan Freitas
> 6 Ron Watson
> 6 Ryan Ozawa
> 6 xicastmedia
> 5 greendesertpro
> 5 Michael Meiser
> 5 Monique Danielle
>
> The point of all this? To validate my concerns...
>
> It is my opinion that this group is very closed off from the rest of
> the video blogging world. Sure it is very tight-knit and friendly,
> but the group seems to have hovered around the 50-250 participating
> members since last year. There must be a way to bridge the gap
> between all the other vloggers.
>
> Note: If you don't think the results are an accurate representation, I
> can analyze more data, but I believe that the trend will be the same.
>
> -Matt
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