OK, so you don't want to ask intelligent questions or make witty observations about weight-loss pills - what the hell's wrong with you? Go on, a few simple words will make some pharma marketing dude's week! No one's talked to them in such a long, long time. Soon they'll get desperate enough to resume that in-depth discussion on Iranian politics with the sofa in the lobby and it won't be fat-reducing medication the orderlies will be forcing down their throats.
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Hmmm... so what are you trying to say Matt? Please be more direct.
Mr Moore may I just say how delighted I am to be able to comment on your blog. Here at Apparently KM we specialise in helping our clients give the appearance of doing KM with minimal investment and effort, and it is wonderful to see fellow spirits like you picking up on our lead. I wonder if you would like to subscribe to our "Apparent" Blog Comments (TM) programme, where we hire web vagrants to post enthusiastic comments on weblogs for a really, really, reasonable monthly fee?
Dr Vaine
I am intrigued by your business proposition - let's take this discussion "off-line" and see where opportunities for "synergy" lie.
Matt
If you would stop being so terrifyingly amusing and fiercely articulate people (err...well me actually) might think that they would be able to add something to the conversation.
As it is I approach with caution, read something, my brain generally explodes and then I have to slink away and recover, chewing slowly on what I've seen in the hopes that one day I might be as clever as you....
I realised today that your RSS feed had been buried in the deep recesses of Bloglines. This wasn't intentional Matt. In fact I love reading your posts. I sort of have a stratigraphic filing system in Bloglines; as I find blogs that look interesting they end up at the top of the list pushing all others, line by line, into oblivion.
Well, now you are back at the top and I look forward to making more comments.
Katie - From the evidence of Get Shouty, you are more than capable of holding your own.
Shawn - No worries - realling looking forward to your workshop next week BTW.
Matt you know better than to goad 'lurkers', and if you don't, you should. I was at an open space training day yesterday, in a room full of facilitators (collective noun, anyone?), and brought up the issue of how (if you should) could you bring quiet people into the conversations? But then I remembered Anne, DavidW's lovely partner, who has pointed out that just because those of us who can't keep our mouths shut, can't keep our mouths shut, doesn't mean others want to behave this way, and we need to understand more about how to make all things more aware of our personality types (that is not a quote).
Anyway. My particular favourite spam comment at the moment is the one that says ...".. .sorry for this... [cue huge line of linksO]...". It gives me hope that whichever spam beast monster is out there sending us all this garbage, a person is sat there, deep in an ethical quandary about what they are achieving with their lives... like I say, there's always hope...
Ed - This was not about goading lurkers - who will do whatever they do bless 'em. I can't really see a base threat 'encouraging' people to contribute.
Rather one interpretation is: what happens after the shouting stops? And the egos have made their mark. Who else gets let in?
Yes, Hi Matt, forgive my expansive language - I know you're not goading :)
As you know (while you've been mulling on stats too), we focus on statistics indicating 'engagement' as something that is neccesarily measured with the web metrics that we have, which I think we agree is only part of the picture - but a vital one to show to 'sponsors' (incl. the community itself) as a sign of development. So we do surveys, interviews etc. as well to capture the human element and the voice of those more quiet.
In formal CoPs we might even consider the 'assets' we create... as with KnoweldgeBoard while I was there, we produced a bunch of events, tried to drag as much learning out of it all as possible, and two free books (the second is about to come out) - interestingly, when we put out the call for chapters for the books, it was not the louder people who came forward - many of those applicants were the quieter ones who one might be tempted to call lurkers - and decided to give back to the community by producing a chapter for the book.
Ed - Hmmmm - I am going to take this further ("yes and") and suggest the possibility of co-created metrics with people. We tend to keep "the punters" out of this. Somehow that is supposed to make it more scientific.
I've been doing a little "value of communities" project with those involved in communities at a particular organisation and it's all been interview-based. They've told us the value they have got. Whether senior mgt will believe US when we tell them remains to be seen...
Co-created metrics with people: absolutely. If you mean the people whose community you are measuring. You could introduce this at the time when you might be consulting them on what it is they want/need.
The metrics could also can change as the community changes.
I'm thinking more and more about personality type.
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