Fun Fact Friday: The ActiveRain Tribe

Carol Williams   Good morning, Carol, I can recall a time, when we had a third of the members but one had to scroll many a page on the blog roll to find members followed, and one could spend hours reading and commenting on posts.

Now it is down to maybe 5 pages of 20 posts a day and many are just repetitious weekly market reports.

This is the real challenge "Now, if we could just get more people to actively engage and enjoy the full value of ActiveRain." I totally agree.

Good morning Carol. Our active participant here, Kat Palmiotti, used your quote well. Kudos to you for your Saturday post which introduces new members, encourages their participation here and offers sage advice for them to enjoy the experience May the new members stay active and allow our tribe to become stronger.  

Good Friday morning, Carol. Thanks for this comparison. 

Sadly, the ActiveRain tribe numbers include dead and inactive members.

Good morning, Carol... interesting approach and comparison. At the end of the day, the real message is this: "Now, if we could just get more people to actively engage and enjoy the full value of ActiveRain."  I'm not sure we have even 500 active members.

That is quite a large number, and if even a quarter of the membership were actually active, that would be quite something, haha.

Carol, interesting comparison you came up with!   Wish there were that many here daily that interacted.   

Hello, Miss Carol Williams  - reading those numbers brings to mind the California voter rolls. Ballots are sent to dead people (I mean no disrespect) and people who moved from the state 10 years ago. 

What do the numbers mean? 
How many people are truly active? 

Hi Carol:

What a fun comparison. The ActiveRain numbers have certainly shifted over the years. Seems to me that when you, I and George Souto joined in September 2006 the membership was under 1000.

Jeff

Carol Williams even thought AR has been growing at a slower pace that it once did, it is still growing and continues to be a place to get all your answers to Real Estate.

Carol interesting comparison.  Since I live in AZ I'm familiar with the Navajo Tribe and what great people they are.As for getting new members to participate and network......beats me.  We've been trying for years.  They don't seem to get the value of building relationships and networking all all that can create - which as we know is amazing!

I love this reference to being a tribe. That is truly what we are - so glad you are a part of my tribe, Carol.

Carol Williams - What an interesting comparison! You just gave me an idea. When my job is over, I'll give you a call to discuss further. 

Congratulations on being featured for this June Challenge. I liked it! 

Hi Carol! What a wonderful comparison! We are very 'tribe-like' and I love that about AR. I also wish we could get more engagement out of the rest of the tribe! How funny that you wrote this before our challenge announcement!!

Good evening Carol,

I love this post..what a great analogy! I loved the term tribe.....it is true Active Rain is a tribe and I too wish more we had more participation.

Carol, Times have changed since the early days of the Rain. Today people have become wary of the surveillance state profiling, targeting, hacking individuals and worse, which prevents active engagement on social media. TargetedJustice was formed to call attention to the plight of some 300,000 Americans on illegal government blacklists without their knowledge or consent.

When a DDOS attack hit my internet, all the following happened within days: FB pages became unnavigatable; Jack Dorsey's Twitter emailed that my account was attacking their server, LinkedIn shut down my hosted group, Friends of Bill Binney and Karen Melton Stewart (2 former NSA'S with years of exemplary service blacklisted); a fraudulent Craigslst account opened with my phone number; an email account with all client contacts was hacked and spammed, and much more. A service that monitors breaches of personal data, found 350 breaches of my data.

We have work to do to restore individual and privacy rights in the country so that people can return to sharing freely online.

I can't cast stones. I'm not here anywhere near as often as I should be/ want to be. "Stuff" keeps getting in the way, but I'll keep trying! 

Carol, I love the comparison between the Navajo Nation and the ActiveRain community. You are so right that the real value is not just in the number of members, but in the engagement, encouragement, and shared knowledge that happens here.