growth of blogs
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On the Structure, Properties and Utility of Internal Corporate Blogs Pranam Kolari Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha Kelly Lyons, Stephen Perelgut, Jen Hawkins. 50,000,000 Weblogs (July 2006) Doubling in size every 6 months for the past 3 years. GROWTH OF BLOGS. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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On the Structure, Properties and Utility of Internal Corporate Blogs
Pranam Kolari Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha
Kelly Lyons, Stephen Perelgut, Jen Hawkins
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• 50,000,000 Weblogs (July 2006)• Doubling in size every 6 months for the past 3 years
GROWTH OF BLOGS
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“WELL, YES, I COULD READ YOUR INTERNAL BLOG… OR YOU COULD JUST TELL ME ABOUT YOUR WORK DAY.”
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MOTIVATION
• What are the characteristics of Internal Blogs?– How are they growing?– Who uses them?– How would you quantify the nature of conversations?
• How does this map to Corporate Hierarchy?• How to best exploit Internal Blogs?• What next with tools for Internal Blogs?
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> Apache Roller Publishing Platform> Similar (less customized) platform used by Sun (Public Facing) Blogs - http://blogs.sun.com/
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Landing page lists recent entries, popular entries and *hot* blogs
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BACKGROUND
• Means to initiate collaboration• Protection of ownership to ideas• Platform for leadership emergence• Audience to discuss work practices• Asset to overall Internal Business Intelligence
300K 23K 4K
Employees
Adopters Active Users
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BACKGROUND
• Blog host database from November 2003 to August 2006
• ~23K blogs• ~48K posts, ~48K comments/trackbacks• Employee Database of around ~300K• Support and Feedback from the highly
enthusiastic internal blogging community
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GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD
Distribution of Blog Users
• US leads the pack• UK, CA have good adoption• Japan highest among Asian Zones• Rest of Asia catching up
Adoption closely mirrors those seen on the external blogosphere
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GROWTH
• Hosted Blogs double once every 9-10 months• Hosted Posts double once every 6 months
Top-down guidance and organizational policies key to internal blogging adoption
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RETENTION/ATTRITION
• More adopters retained than lost
Definition: A user who posted during a specific month is considered retained if he/she reposts at least once in the following x(6) months
Ability of the community to engage and retain new users has improved significantly
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USE OF TAGS
• Tag use slowly growing • 80% of all posts carry tags• Tags per post spiked from an avg. of 1.5 to 2.5
Upgrades to publishing tools that connected tags to internal book-marking tools and new visualization tools
Adoption clearly tiedto utility.
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TAG USE DISTRIBUTION
• Typical Power Law Distribution – Some tags are popular with a long tail of less popular tags
• What can we draw from these two data points?• Is this related to quality of a folksonomy?
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LINKING BEHAVIOR
Feature Hyperlinks 60%
Posts over 2 months
40%
30%
10%
Feature Internal Links
Feature External Links
Feature Internal Blog Links
• Internal themes are widely discussed• More conversations are through
comments, few through trackbacks
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SNA BACKGROUND
• G(V,E)– Every user u is in V– User u commenting/trackbacking on one or
more posts by user v creates an edge (u,v)
• 75-80% of the nodes were disconnected– Created a blog with no post– Not commented on other posts, not a recipient
of comments
• ~4.5K Nodes• ~17.5K Edges
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DEGREE DISTRIBUTION
• In-degree slope -1.6• Out-degree slope -1.9
• Web (-2.1, -2.67)• E-mail (-1.49, -2.03)
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RECIPROCITY• Do bloggers hosting conversations, engage in conversations elsewhere?
• Plot shows average out-degree of nodes with the same in-degree
• Slope of close to 1, but lower (collective evangelism)
Conversations are highly reciprocal – a case in point also attested by me as a user
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GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS
US JP UK CA IN DE CN AU BR
US41.4
0.3 8.9 4.4 0.6 1.4 0.2 1.2 0.4
JP 2.1 4.3 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0
UK 7.4 0.1 8.0 1.0 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.1
CA 4.3 0.1 1.2 2.6 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0
IN 0.8 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0
DE 1.1 0.0 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0
CN 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
AU 1.0 0.0 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0
BR 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
POST
COMMENT
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GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS
What is the Impact of Global Conversations?
• All pairs shortest path on the graph• Ranked Edges by Centrality• Plot ratio of inter-geography conversations in top x edges
Global Conversations are key to information diffusion
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REACH/SPREAD
P
C(3)
C(6)
C(5)
REACH = 3+5+6 = 14
SPREAD = 8
“Reach” measures distance between all conversations on a post independently, while “Spread” measures them together – based on the corporate hierarchy.
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REACH/SPREAD
• Posts with spread = 1 (Employee/Manager) quite low• Spread peaks around “4” showing intra-department conversations• Spread continues to be significant showing global conversations
The notion of spread in addition to showing nature of conversations can also contribute to new metrics
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DERIVED METRICS
Additional Ranking Measures
Meme Tracking: Overall Spread of Conversations on a Post
Trend Identification: Tags attached to high “meme” posts can correlate with emerging interests
Thought Leaders: Authorities on topics by identifying meme and their topics
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CONCLUSION
• Internal Blogs gaining traction within corporations
• Important additional channel to collaborate across geographies
• “Workforce Journalism” just round the corner
• Emerging area for bottom-up competitive intelligence
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