Posts Tagged ‘social capital’

Why it’s so important to give comments to other bloggers, especially if you blog yourself. Participating in the blogosphere will build up your credentials and your SEO.

An examination of Plurk and how it uses “karma” to guage your involvement in the online community. It is intersting to look at whether this type of system is really a motivator or a deterrent in social media and whether a user’s interaction with a system can really be graded.

It may surprise you that only 1 percent of people contribute to online communities or write comments on blogs. Sometimes it just seems daunting to write your own blog or to comment. In Citizen Marketing, the authors explain why so few do all the work.