5. Participation is a two way street
2. Creating content
1. Consuming content
6. Consuming, Creating, and in between
Consuming
• Reading
• Learning
• Absorbing
Creating
• Writing
• Publishing
• Sharing
In between, something happens:
Confidence + Trust
Emerges and interaction begins
7. Stairway to Confidence + Trust
Does this community
satisfy my needs?
Will my participation be
well received?
Yay! Somebody actually
replied to my post!
8. Participation as a lifecycle
1. We are all
consumers
2. It’s not that hard to
become interactors
3. We are all
(potential) creators
13. The generator’s key attitudes
I have something to say / I can create stuff
that is relevant / I can share stuff that is
interesting
Feeling assured that “Someone is bound to
look at it”
I am (everyone is) a valued part of the
network (mankind)