I recently blogged about minimum threshold mechanisms: set a minimum threshold for contribution and exclude anyone from using the system who doesn’t meet that threshold. I recently encountered a great example of a popular social media system using a minimum threshold to encourage contribution: Facebook. In order to use Facebook, a new user must do [...]
Also taggedPot luck dinners are dinners were everyone is expected to bring a dish of food for everyone to share. When everyone who attends does this, you end up with a wide variety of food and usually more than enough food for everyone there. Pot luck dinners also happen to be a great real-world example of [...]
Also taggedThe most basic problem that any social media system faces is contribution; the system needs contributions from its users. These contributions are usually in the form of some type of information: text, images, videos, etc. The fact that these contributions come from end users is what makes these systems social media. For most systems, users [...]
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