Tim,
We did the same thing when I was designing Gather.com - a social networking
site. Users earned gather points to publish, comment, connect with users,
etc - and then were able to turn the points in for certificates.
- Will
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jared M. Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The biggest issue so far that Gather.com faced/es is an economics/human
behavior issue. Incentives do strange things to user behavior. Gather uses a
point system to incent people to public articles. You get more points if the
article you published is popular - rated high, highly trafficed, highly
Hi Timothy,
Take a look at http://www.experts-exchange.com/ . This is not exactly a
social network, rather a professional one, but I think it only makes
increasing user engagement more difficult. I find their reward system to be
excellent.
Best,
Konrad
Timothy,
Have you read Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody? He has loads of
both theoretically interesting and practically useful insights about
social tools, but the last chapter in particular talks about the
success of social tools as a function of three criteria: the Promise,
the Tool
OK First...
@ Jared M. Spool It's not exactly like
http://www.iminlikewithyou.com in that its primary purpose is a
support group for specifically women. The idea is to give them
incentives for interacting with each other, but it is not a site that
they will be logging onto to primarily do
Tim,
Sounds like quite the project. I'm working on a class project that is
challenging me in a similar way. Though it isn't a social networking site, I'm
working on a site in which I want to add features that make the site more
interactive (interaction between the reader and the site, and
On May 9, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Timothy Makoid wrote:
I am a student majoring in Information Systems with a concentration
in HCI/ID/UX/HF. I'm working on my final project and we are
designing a small scale social networking site. Were trying to come
up with a sort of gaming system that
Hey everyone,
I am a student majoring in Information Systems with a concentration in
HCI/ID/UX/HF. I'm working on my final project and we are designing a small
scale social networking site. Were trying to come up with a sort of gaming
system that encourages the users to interact with each
