Peter Reiser
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Measuring Social SoftwareHi Sparkbouy,
Thanks for your feedback Re: Community Equity
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"m a bit concerned about the model you are using to calculate return on contribution as it seems to me as though it is supportive of a "banking" model of knowledge (or shall I say information transition), which is not what social networking is about. If the objective is to get a higher number, then that would mean that less contributors and more readers would be an ideal model, which goes against the principles of social networking. I’m most probably missing something and would be glad for you to point it out to me."
Our goal is to build a social VALUE system (not a frequent flyer program model) were the system automatically evaluates Contribution (input) Participation (feedback/reuse) Value of people,content and communities
So we honor not just contribution but also participation. As example - usually 10-15% of a community regularly contribute but the others are usually "just consuming" content. That’s fine as long a consumer provides feedback trough rating/comments etc. Also our Community Equity services have some pattern matching logic e.g. a user can contribute 100s of documents but its only counts when some else has viewed/downloaded it.
Summary our goal is to build a qualitative value driven system versus quantitative ..
or as one of our CTO’s recently sad :
"I rather prefer to have on artifact been downloaded 100 times then 100 artifacts once "
:-)2 years ago
Peter Reiser
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Measuring Social SoftwareInteresting thoughts ... have a look at http://blogs.sun.com/peterreiser/entry/community_equity_specification2 years ago
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