Sociability and usability in online communities: Determining and measuring success
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...…to Sociability (Leary, Kelly, Cottrell & Screindorfer, 2006), to be positively related to favourable attitudes towards SNS and willingness to join SNS. Sociability is widely discussed in computer literature and is acknowledged as being an important part of virtual communities (see Preece, 2001)....
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...Some lead to off-line relations (e.g. Baker, 1998; Parks & Floyd, 1996; Parks & Roberts, 1998), while others remain entirely online (e.g. Allen, 1996; Preece, 2001)....
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...Some usability and sociability factors (Preece, 2001) that motivate readers for technology-mediated social participation are included in Table 1....
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...Three key components contribute to good sociability ( Preece, 2000 ):...
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...The term means different things to different people ( Preece, 2000 )....
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...There is insufficient space for this discussion here but it is discussed in my book on sociability and usability in online communities ( Preece, 2000 )....
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...…from diVerent professions, etc. Average percentages of lurkers are frequently said to be in the high 90s but in patient support communities, the average number of lurkers during a three-month period was around 55% compared with around 82% in software support communities (Nonnecke and Preece 2000)....
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