digg_url =”http://danzarrella.com/viral-content-sharing-survey-report.html”;
Finally, after sneak peeks and status updates, the report is done.
Its a study of why and how people share content online and it explores content type preferences, sharing methods, motivations, reach and frequency.
You can check out the table of contents here.
If you like the report, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.
Here’s a few more sneak peek graphs from the report about the preferences of respondents who frequently read social news sites (like Digg):
And as always, I’d love to hear what you think.
My survey on web content sharing collected around 450 responses and now I’m working on the task of decoding the type-in answers and calculating the results.
I asked the question on twitter, but I’d also like to ask it here, what formats would everyone like to see the results in? I’ve already had suggestions of: spreadsheet and slideshare in addition to the normal graphs-in-a-blog-post format. Any other awesome ideas?
Update: Its also been suggested that I do a downloadable PDF version of the report, like I did with the Link Attraction Factors report.
A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. I also made two tools: a keyword checking tool and a title checking tool.
The keyword checking tool
Enter a keyword and the tool will return data on popular stories on Digg that mentioned that keyword. The average story in my database got 299 links and this tool displays the difference between that average and the average number of links accumulated by stories using the word.
The title checking tool
Enter a title and the tool will breakdown the words and display the effect they had on the link accumulation of popular Digg stories. This tool…
Yep, more guest posts, this time I wrote a post on ReadWriteWeb about how to use Twitter to increase your social media profile’s “authority”. Anthony over at Social Times added a couple more tips to my list.
Yep, thats right, I’ve done yet another guest post. This time its over at Jonathan Bailey’s seminal PlagiarismToday blog and its about the futility of resisting communal recreation, and the value in embracing it.
