mistakes in dealing with page visitors
Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: Asterisk, Asterisk@Home, CallWeaver, Fonality, Joomla!, Mambo, PBX In A Flash, Trixbox, community, community building, community management, free software projects, freedom to fork, gathering a resource, make a buck, market share, marketing, mistakes in dealing with a community, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, monetize free software, number of installs, snakeoil, tricking a community, user lock-in, userbase | Tags: Techdirt, forks, free software, GPL, trojan horse, funding, crowdsourcing, hassles in usage, lessons learned, brand, social interaction |
I just read the current topic on Slashdot — Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community –, and originally, I wanted to post a short reply only. But as I look at other failed .. failing communities, such as Mambo, Asterisk, Trixbox, this became a bit longer. Therefore I prefer to put it as a post here.
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Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: G Reynolds, Presentation Zen, accessibility, chances to learn, gaining users, hassles in usage, human computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, navigability, rules of thumb, series of posts, suggested reads, usability, useful links | Tags: content management system, convincing the user, overloading perception, pitfalls in usability, visual perception |
In my previous article, Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging., I looked into the question how to gather audience for a blog and what influences most whether people stay or leave. The conclusion I’ve taken so far is that whatever you offer, you need to win over people for whatever step you want them to [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, advice, attention capturing, become well-known, blogging, competition, gaining users, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, providing benefit, respect, rules of thumb, series of posts, social interaction, story, user experience | Tags: 255 characters of link context, backlinks, blogging, Click Here links, contribution to the user experience, gaining audience, net-prominents, RSS feed delivery, search engine results, trackbacks |
This one is going to be a bit long, as I refer to my own experiences in blogging, how I approached increasing the number of readers, my failures and lessons learned. In the end, I come up with a conclusion that points back into the direction of usability and communities.
In 1999, I didn’t care much [...]
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