A little information from 1998 about " forum participation". This still seem to be the same in 2005. Since I have been working with forums - out of all the people registered with the forum - only 10-20% of them use the forums and the the 90-80% only read them.
What is comes down to it ...is your post interesting enough for a least - a hit on that topic (which tells me someone read it) - then I guess I feel it is worth for me to write about it - as long as I am getting the users to read my posts, I am happy.
Good job to theBubbler for "beefing up" the forums in the last three months.
~RedRaven~
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Interested Participants
People need several things in order to participate in online conferences:
* Equipment (hardware, software, and an Internet connection)
* Training (computer and Internet skills, plus understanding of online forums)
* Time
* Motivation
If any one of these is missing, your conferencing project is likely to fail. Think especially about the last two items on the list. It takes a significant amount of time to participate in an online conference. Is your target audience sufficiently interested in the subject of your conference to get involved? And interest in the subject, by itself, is not enough: your audience must also be convinced that the conference has something concrete to offer them. For most people, participation in public discussions on a community network is an "extra" -- you're competing for their attention against all the other things they want to do with their scarce free time.
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