Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog (http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/). Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com Dear Professionals You may find it interesting ! The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk What is the 1% rule? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Consider, too, some statistics from that other community content generation project, Wikipedia: 50% of all Wikipedia article edits are done by 0.7% of users, and more than 70% of all articles have been written by just 1.8% of all users, according to the Church of the Customer blog ( http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/ ). Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, "1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a thread-in-progress; 100% of the user population benefits from the activities of the above groups," So what's the conclusion? Only that you shouldn't expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html?gusrc=rss ++ Mukesh ++ - - Mukesh Anand Monitor Information Services http://monitorlinks.typepad.com http://monitorlinks.typepad.com