This post was supposed to be a reflection on the importance of social networks. But while thinking about what to write, i thought... i would first do an analysis of what we have today. 

Tord published a post 'Who is the community'. He has categorized three types the different people in the community (Contributors, Commenters, Readers). 

But in addition to this classification, there are those who share or do not share the articles of TechNetWiki. 

We are 3.400 contributors on TechNet Wiki. 
If each contributor shared 1 tweet per day. 
We would average 408.000 people reading some information on the TechNet Wiki. 

In 2011, the average person had 120 followers, in Brazil the average was 231. 

We have spoken of the importance of using social networks such as TechNet Wiki has the phenomenon. We also talked about the YouTube + TechNet Wiki. 

But it is possible to measure the impact of a publication shared in social networks? YES! 
In February I wrote an article for my blog (Why contribute to the TechNet Wiki?) Where i showed that during 20 days of monitoring the TechNet articles were viewed 75% more than in relation to my blog. 
This shows that on the platform based on my data I reach 75% more people. 
I have no way of knowing exactly where it comes from these 75%, but i know that much has been sharing on twitter.

To show the impact of the use of Twitter i did a review of @wikininjas and @wikininjas_br.

Today, a tweet from @ WikiNinjas generates a direct impact of 251 people (followers).
The impact generates a @ wikininjas_br 282 people (followers).
But if this tweet is sharer by these followers, the impact is giant.

See the images below the report generated by TweetReach on twitter: @wikininjas and @wikininjas_br.
Where the @ wikininjas reached via the retweet 10 people, reached 9.791 others.
And @wikininjas_br 2.371 others people, with 7 retweets. 

 In all interactions with both twitter, most are on shared links.  Wow, that makes sense! ^^ And comparing the two ... @ wikininjas_br has more tweets.
 

When i searched the word "TechNet Wiki" on twitter using the search period for a month, got the proof we use very little tool.

In one month, only 48 people used the keyword 'TechNet Wiki'.

In this post, i only spoke of the impact of a publication on twitter. But imagine the impact if even on facebook and all our contributors to share their articles and articles from other contributors!

http://www.socialmention.com
http://tweetreach.com 
http://twtrland.com 
http://statcounter.com/

We're continuing our Monday series, "Monday - Community Interview". Today it is Michael Stephenson!

Above is Michael Stephenson, Microsoft Integration MVP from the United Kingdom. I have met Michael a few times and he is very passionate about Microsoft technologies. Like and many other BizTalk community members he supports TechNet Wiki and contributors.

Who are you, and what do you do?

Michael Stephenson: I am from Newcastle in the UK and work for Connected Systems Consulting Ltd, which is my small freelance consultancy specializing in integration projects using Microsoft (and associated) technologies. I have been a Microsoft BizTalk MVP for a number of years and more recently have moved to the new Microsoft Integration MVP encompassing BizTalk and other Microsoft Integration technologies. I'm also part of the Microsoft Advisors program for Connected Technologies and Windows Azure.

I usually work with customers in either an Integration Architect, Technical Team Lead or Integration Delivery Manager capacity and have worked with a number of organizations in the UK mainly in the Financial, Public sector, Healthcare and Supply Chain areas. I come from a BizTalk background, but strongly believe that these days to be a Microsoft Integration Specialist you need to work with BizTalk and an increasing number of other technologies which form the core part of your integration tool kit. Recently I have been involved with a couple of customers working on hybrid integration solutions using Windows Azure Service Bus. 

What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?

I have been a contributor on TechNet Wiki for a while now which first started when I was writing papers around some BizTalk topics. At the time I wanted to write a white paper, but Susan Joly at Microsoft who at the time coordinated the BizTalk Developer Centre on MSDN told me about TechNet Wiki. I really liked the idea of having something published a little more formally than a blog post but still had the flexibility to be changed and enhanced without a long review process. I also like the way TechNet Wiki allows others to contribute to an article you may write.

TechNet Wiki is a great way for the community to develop complementary documentation and articles alongside the official documentation produced by the Microsoft product teams. The various contributors to the BizTalk community on TechNet Wiki did a fantastic job of putting together the BizTalk section on TechNet Wiki which inspired me to do something similar for Windows Azure Service Bus. I recently was working on two projects involving Windows Azure Service Bus and although the product has been live for some time I found that there was a lot of fragmented information out there in the blog world which was very useful to us and I thought that we can help ourselves on this project but also others if we pulled together this content and made it available from a single place. My view is that MSDN would be the place for official documentation and TechNet Wiki would be the place for community content to support MSDN.

How did you become an MVP? Do you have any suggestions for other community members who hope to eventually become MVPs?

I was very lucky and surprised when I became an MVP.  I believe I was nominated by a couple of people based on my involvement with the UK Connected Systems User Group and also my other community contributions around blogging and speaking. I was fortunate enough that when my contributions were reviewed they must have been pretty good.

I think the best suggestion for anyone who would like to be an MVP would be to have confidence in yourself and not be shy. When I first became an MVP I used to look at some of the other MVP's and think there's a room full of people a lot smarter than me, do I really belong here?  The truth is that what makes the MVP program so successful is that everyone has their own unique experiences and interests and this broad range of experience is what is most valuable to Microsoft. If you would like to become an MVP you have to get out there and tell people about your views and opinions through articles or speaking at events.  If no one knows you have these interesting opinions on something then it's unlikely you would get nominated to represent the community as an MVP.

What are your favorite articles you've contributed?

I've always been interested in the articles where you can talk about design choices and architecture rather that walk-through type articles. I find it interesting to explore the different options and considerations you might have. Fortunately in systems or integration architecture the answer to most questions is "it depends" which leaves plenty of space for articles like these.

I think my two favorite articles on TechNet Wiki that I have contributed to are:

1. Windows Azure Service Bus Resources

This resource pulled together a lot of the community content we had used in a simple to use page rather than spending hours searching for things.

2. Behaviour Driven BizTalk Development

This article pulled together a number of resources by myself and others around Behaviour Driven Development for BizTalk. The article was also a TNWiki Article Spotlight a few months ago.

I think one other old article I wrote for TechNet Wiki, which I quite like was BizTalk RFID and NServiceBus. These are two technologies I like and in the case of RFID was one I had never used on a proper project. It was fun to explore the possibilities of this technology.

Do you have any tips for new Wiki contributors?

A couple of tips I would suggest for new contributors would be firstly to use the comments section.  It's always good to have a discussion associated with an article you have written and it’s a good way to enhance the articles with other experiences.  You will also become familiar with others who are active in the community.  A second tip would be to ask other authors.  In my experience most people in the community are very friendly and happy to engage.  I'm sure if you wanted someone to give you feedback before you published your article a lot of people would be happy to help.

Hallo Ninjas with Gokan Ozcifci here. I am a new Wiki Ninja and today I will bring the latest news from the TechNet Wiki International Community.

I think writing an article or whitepaper is important, and if readers like your article its better but if there are comments, and – I hope - “positive” comments, you can be proud of your article.

This is also available for Blog ratings.

A comment is generally a verbal or written remark often related to an added piece of information, or an observation or statement. These are usually marked with an abbreviation, such as "obs." or "N.B.". The term "comment" may have different meanings depending on specific fields of usage.

In this article I will make a top 5 of Turkish commentators on Wiki: 
  
  

Wiki Comments: 1908 || Blog Comments: 102

Gokan Ozcifci  TechNet Profile | gknzcfc.net

Wiki Comments: 105 || Blog Comment: 64

Serhad Makbuloglu TechNet Profile | serhadmakbuloglu.com

Wiki Comments: 18 || Blog Comments: 0

Selcin Turkarslan TechNet Profile

Wiki Comments: 5 || Blog Comments: 0

SedatSalaman TechNet Profile | sdtslmn.com/

Wiki Comments: 1 || Blog Comments: 0

Hakan Uzuner TechNet Profile | hakanuzuner.com/

Common guys, the wiki is hot! More articles, more comments and more ratings!

Congratulations All of them for their work. Big hugs go to the TechNet Wiki community, keep up the contribution, have a great Friday and don’t forget to
tweet #TNWIKI and follow us @WikiNinjas 

Turkish Ninja Gokan

blog: http://gokanozcifci.be

twitter: @gokanozcifci

SharePoint Community Expert, MCC

Welcome to Weekend Surprise! And here's an announcement...

There are now 30,000+ comments on TechNet Wiki!

The current number is 31,865 comments! Why is this significant? Well, because comments usually aren't on Wikis. They bring us together in new ways! For more about the amazingness of comments on TechNet Wiki, see Wiki Life: Why are there comments on TechNet Wiki?

You can find the current stats any time here, on the right column: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/default.aspx

How have you found comments useful?

Remember to Wiki while you work! (Or after work.)

   - Ninja Ed

Welcome to another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Sat-Fri)

Firstly, the screenshot of this week's leader board:

TechNet Ninja yottun8 has dropped in the charts this week, however we had a special contribution from him at the end of last week, highlighted by Ed:

Stack Ranking the Languages on TechNet Wiki

An awesome set of stats, for which we are very grateful for...

... and worthy of a special Ninja of the Week award!

Congratulations and thanks again to yottun8.

Now, on with the usual awards...

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

The person that has saved the most revisions across all their week's article updates is Fernando Lugão Veltem with an outstanding 50 revisions

Second is Ed Price - MSFT just behind with 43 revisions.

Richard Mueller is a new entry at 3 with 38 revisions.

Serhad MAKBULOĞLU has made some nice updates this week, but also some wrong changes, so was disqualified :(  - sorry Serhad, read below.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

The busiest bee this week is Fernando Lugão Veltem, with an awe-inspiring, 50 updated articles

Second is Ed Price - MSFT, just behind with an impressive 43 updated articles

Richard Mueller is as above, in third with 17 updates articles

So that's one update per article from Fernando and Ed, master Ninja tweakers.

Serhad was very sadly disqualified this week, for wrongly adding (en US) to titles - we DO NOT add (en-US) to TITLES :(

It just makes work, as other wiki guardians (or the original author) are following behind removing them again :/

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

The document that has seen the largest amount of upheaval this week is SharePoint 2010: The HTML Web Part by Ed Price - MSFT

An incredible document, with much goodness. 

I found this article of particular personal interest, thanks Ed.

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The biggest (longest) document to receive significant changes this week is Creating a Widget for Operations Manager Dashboard - Walkthrough #1 - Custom UI Control

Just take a look at this one! It has a page of information even before the TOC.

Then WHAT A table of contents it is!!

This is a unique document that is an example of just how good TechNet Wiki is.

Congratulations and thanks go to Brian Wren (Microsoft) for his dedication to excellence.

And thanks to Richard Mueller for his update that bought it to our attention!

Highest Revision Award   Article with the highest revision number

This week's most fiddled with article is again Windows PowerShell Survival Guide (en-US) with 430 revisions! (+2 from last week)

This is a monster document, a veritable tome of knowledge, that has grown over nearly 3 years!

Congratulations go to tonysoper_MSFT for giving birth to such a popular and loved article!

Most Edited Article Award   Article with most revisers

The document revised by the most people is AGAIN Sysprep no Windows Server 2012 e Windows 8 (pt-BR)

It was edited by FOUR musketeers this week:

Serhad MAKBULOĞLU, Caio Vilas Boas, Fernando Lugão Veltem & Luciano Lima [MVP] Brazil

Smallest Significant Edit Award   Size isn't everything! Every edit counts.

This week's tiniest tweaker is Jeff Patterson - MSFT for his very note-worthy tweak to List of UE-V Knowledge Base Articles

His tweak? Adding "not"

2769570 - UE-V does not update the theme on RDS or VDI sessions

A tiny but vital tweak, I'm sure you'll agree! XD

Quickest Helping Hand  Correcting each-other's work is what TNWiki is all about.

This award celebrates the act of collaboration, and highlights the fastest update of another's work.

This week's fastest updated article was Usando parametros OData na Web API (pt-BR) - 19 minutes after the previous author.

This was a WIN for Serhad MAKBULOĞLU who CORRECTLY added the language tag (pt-BR) to the title:

Usando IQueryable na Web API (br-BR)

Congratulations to all this week's awardees!

Have a good weekend and a great week at work, whatever the weather ;)

See you next week!

Best regards,
Pete Laker