{"id":28278,"date":"2012-06-14T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/followers-vs-participants.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:25:13","slug":"followers-vs-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/followers-vs-participants.html","title":{"rendered":"Followers vs. Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio isn&#39;t a bad one. \u00a0I have 417 (!) followers (circlers?) here on Google Plus. That would mean 36 occasional plussers\/commenters, and 4 active correspondents. \u00a0And depending on how you gauge &quot;active&quot; vs &quot;occasional&quot; that&#39;s arguably what I see.<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine &#8212; I&#39;d always like to have more folks chit-chatting, and hear more from the occasional follower, but I value the ones who\u00a0do engage. \u00a0Anyone who feels like piping up, always welcome to do so.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#39;s possible, of course, that some of those numbers are inflated by abandoned \/ unwatched accounts. \u00a0Still &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fk2r.hyperborea.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2Fcommunity-participation-pyramid-300x249.gif' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.hyperborea.org\/journal\/2012\/06\/90-9-1-rule\/'>Google+, Blogging and the 90-9-1 Rule | K-Squared Ramblings<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCommunity participation pyramid: the 90-9-1 Rule (Jakob Nielsen) Sometimes it seems like more people are talking about Google+ than using it, but it really depends on the community you&#39;re looking at. &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GYhJUvnVdyB' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio isn&#39;t a bad one. \u00a0I have 417 (!) followers (circlers?) here on Google Plus. That would mean 36 occasional plussers\/commenters, and 4 active correspondents. \u00a0And depending on how you gauge &quot;active&quot; vs &quot;occasional&quot; that&#39;s arguably what I see. Which is fine &#8212; I&#39;d always like to have more folks chit-chatting, and hear more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/followers-vs-participants.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Followers vs. Participants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127852,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/mountains-mole-hills-and-the-occasional-inconvenience-of-states-rights.html","url_meta":{"origin":28278,"position":0},"title":"Mountains, Mole Hills, and the Occasional Inconvenience of States&#039; Rights","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Sep-15 5:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"The state of Alaska, wherein Mt McKinley Denali dwells, has been pushing for the mountain to be renamed on a federal level for years. 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