Archive for the 'participation' Category

suggestions on attracting larger user group with blogs, links to advice from Matt Gross of New York Times Frugal Traveler.

I recently killed my Twitter profile.  (As a recent graduate of UW Multimedia C Digital Communications Program, this could be grounds for excommunication.) For my defense, I offer from our research project last fall, “motivation to participate”.  Unlike Facebook, those I know who participate on Twitter have work or school related to Digital products.  The [...]

Scenario:  Needed store hours on The Fish Store to see if they were open on Sunday before I traversed over there.  Google hit led to Yelp! Which is a neighborhood business review and rank site.  First review for my favorite store is a total slam. What gives?  I am motivated to register in order to [...]

My SPECTATOR/LURKING husband just asked if it was easy to CREATE a storytelling video.  What was his motivation?  Watching another persons YouTube video on a topic my husband is an expert on.  The video fell short of his expectations, could be improved on and he wants to make his own, improved one.

Motivation: Improvement, Sharing Information [...]

While I have only been on Facebook this time around a couple of weeks, I now find I have participated voluntarily 17 add-on applications.  At first I was reluctant to add any application, because all of the applications warn you they are going to access your information.  This felt invasive.  However, eventually one of my [...]