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Ransacking communities

Written by Laurel Papworth in Uncategorized

Thanks to Erietta for bringing Netscape/digg war to my attention:

I’ve been waiting for someone to try this. Bribes are rife in the online RP gaming world but straight down-the-line online communities? Interesting.

“Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month”

Well it’s not exactly how I would monetize user generated content. BTW I have to use ‘monetize’ or the Americans won’t understand.

I’ll post more later (got Italian classes this evening) but here’s the Digg link. I downloaded the podcast and watched it, but I need to think/read/write more. Now something for you to consider – will the money work? I once had to move a large community from one ‘owner’ to another. And try for zero churn. Not the easiest thing I’ve ever done. More later *waves*

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Laurel Papworth

Named by Forbes™ Magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, named Head of Industry, Social Media (Marketing Magazine™) and in the Power150 Media bloggers (AdAge™). CERT IV Training and Assessment certified trainer (Diplomas and Certificates etc) Adult Education. Laurel has manager Facebook Pages for Junior Masterchef, Idol, Big Brother etc. and have consulted on private online communities for banks Westpac, not for profits UNHCR & governments in SE Asia. Lecturer, social media, University of Sydney for 10 years and Laurel has 11,000 online students. Laurel Papworth personally connects to 6 million followers online and has taught around 100,000 people in the last 10 years how to be social media managers.

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