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		<title>By: Joanna</title>
		<link>http://www.sagerock.com/blog/the-evolving-social-media-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-487</link>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chad, 

Without a membership to your community, and therefore without the insight on what content you provide your 200+ members, I can&#039;t definitively assess why people are reading without writing.  Sometimes you can have the nicest, most informative posts ever imaginable on the face of the earth, and all you hear back are crickets.  Ask yourself why you respond to any given post.  The mainstay of social media is to interact; everyone has the opportunity to be published and heard, and that is intoxicating.  Have you tried engaging your readers beyond providing them with posts?  Have you flat-out asked them to answer a pertinent question?  

Sometimes when you write tons of content, you invoke massive conversations; and sometimes when you write tons of content you just write tons of content.  Don&#039;t get me wrong, in providing a community you have set yourself up to be an industry voice; don&#039;t worry if you haven&#039;t gathered that great instant gratification of feedback from your members.  Clearly, they&#039;re listening to you, reading 4.6 posts per day, on average.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chad, </p>
<p>Without a membership to your community, and therefore without the insight on what content you provide your 200+ members, I can&#8217;t definitively assess why people are reading without writing.  Sometimes you can have the nicest, most informative posts ever imaginable on the face of the earth, and all you hear back are crickets.  Ask yourself why you respond to any given post.  The mainstay of social media is to interact; everyone has the opportunity to be published and heard, and that is intoxicating.  Have you tried engaging your readers beyond providing them with posts?  Have you flat-out asked them to answer a pertinent question?  </p>
<p>Sometimes when you write tons of content, you invoke massive conversations; and sometimes when you write tons of content you just write tons of content.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, in providing a community you have set yourself up to be an industry voice; don&#8217;t worry if you haven&#8217;t gathered that great instant gratification of feedback from your members.  Clearly, they&#8217;re listening to you, reading 4.6 posts per day, on average.</p>
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		<title>By: Chad Symens</title>
		<link>http://www.sagerock.com/blog/the-evolving-social-media-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-470</link>
		<dc:creator>Chad Symens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My company launched a social networking site for our software user group and we have opened it up to retail industry professionals at large.  Thur far we have over 200 members which is great...but... we are tracking activity and see the average member reades 4.6 posts per day but they post almost no comments.  We are posting tons of new content every day so it&#039;s not like they don&#039;t have the opportunity to sound off.  What tips can you offer on getting members to participate?
our community http://www.acceleratedanalytics.com/acceleratedcommunity</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My company launched a social networking site for our software user group and we have opened it up to retail industry professionals at large.  Thur far we have over 200 members which is great&#8230;but&#8230; we are tracking activity and see the average member reades 4.6 posts per day but they post almost no comments.  We are posting tons of new content every day so it&#8217;s not like they don&#8217;t have the opportunity to sound off.  What tips can you offer on getting members to participate?<br />
our community <a href="http://www.acceleratedanalytics.com/acceleratedcommunity" rel="nofollow">http://www.acceleratedanalytics.com/acceleratedcommunity</a></p>
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