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Re: Interview: Brian from Mario Marathon Discusses Gaming for Charity and How to Grow an Audience

Sahilthegym — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:46:28 -0000

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Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

SGA — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:46:02 -0000

Great Post!! But i would like to know the standard figure for each terms used above at which you can call a game as successful. For eg: i have read somewhere that DAU/MAU if you gets between 15- 20 %, you can say that your game is successful, likely i would like to know the rest.
Pls help

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Jkarnay — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:00:44 -0000

Exactly. It doesn't account for unique users.

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Achal Augustine — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:22:14 -0000

Great Glossary

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Daniel G. Sinclair — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:21:28 -0000

What about how many game-related plush toys sold? :D

Re: Looking for Community Manager jobs? Ask this important question at your interviews.

Eric Herberholz — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:34:28 -0000

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Re: Interview: Brian from Mario Marathon Discusses Gaming for Charity and How to Grow an Audience

Brian Brinegar — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:59:56 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to put this interview up. I hope that your readers find it at least a little interesting.

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Matt — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:49:08 -0000

You're correct, that would be a little strange :) if you're getting a 50% DAU/MAU ratio, and you're not trying to pump new users into the game, you're crazy. For the most part, a game getting 20% DAU/MAU is doing very well, with most games between 5 (uh oh) and 15.

Interestingly, the Scrabble facebook game has numbers like the (admittedly English-majorfied) example above. Here are Scrabble's numbers from Appdata:

http://www.appdata.com/apps/fa...

~375,000 DAU, and ~1,147,000 MAU. That's crazy retention, but for whatever reason (longevity, lack of support, etc), the game is no longer adding new players.

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

GaRaA — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:26:25 -0000

I think that it's not strange. You can have half million users in a day and 1 million UNIQUE in the whole month. It makes all the difference ;-)

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Atom — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:23:37 -0000

There is something strange in the example explaining DAU/MAU: half million users in a day but, just a million during the whole month?

Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

Jerome — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:43:21 -0000

It doesn't matter how much revenue per user u get unless you aren't sure on how much yo'r going to pay to get him/her.

Re: Need a jolt of activity? Appeal to narcissism.

søgemaskineoptimering — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:32:42 -0000

. Is your online community hurting for activity? Then it's time to stroke some egos. Here are 5 ways to turn everyone into frothing ...

Re: Looking for Community Manager jobs? Ask this important question at your interviews.

management jobs — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:19:44 -0000

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Re: The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics

free games — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:02:04 -0000

This is great! I am just starting to learn how to develop a game. I think its important to know the basics it self.

Re: Need a jolt of activity? Appeal to narcissism.

Eric Suesz — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:37:45 -0000

Great stuff. Kind of wish I was part of your community. Sounds like fun.

Re: Looking for Community Manager jobs? Ask this important question at your interviews.

Eric Suesz — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:44:07 -0000

Such an excellent point. I never would have thought to ask this, but I sure won't forget to ask it next time around.

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Re: Looking for Community Manager jobs? Ask this important question at your interviews.

the99th — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:30:46 -0000

Yeah and if they sit you next to customer support, your job will involve eating bees or something equivalent.

Re: How To Grow Your Online Community with the ACT Model

Marc Joffe — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:03:47 -0000

Great article. The online community manager should have a unique combination of qualities. Social to engage, strategic to sustain interest, and a real passion for the brand. The reward comes when the community moderates itself.

Re: How To Grow Your Online Community with the ACT Model

Scot Duke — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:21:58 -0000

The job of a Community Manager is Fulltime and can be daunting. The reward comes in the conversion.

Re: Need a jolt of activity? Appeal to narcissism.

Matt — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:52:08 -0000

That's brilliant. And I'm stealing it immediately ;)

Reminds me of the old networking saying: "the most beautiful sound in the world is your own name."

Re: Need a jolt of activity? Appeal to narcissism.

Facebook Indie Games — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:59:47 -0000

When I started tweeting, I wanted to get follows and retweets. I tried to figure out what would get me RT'd and followed by influential people.

The best one I found was "their own twitter ID". So I started retweeting, saying "via" a lot and so on. Worked quite well I think. Should do it more often.

Re: The Important Lesson You Can Learn From Foursquare Day

Matt — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:06:01 -0000

I even get that from friends when I try to explain Foursquare. It sometimes goes like this:

"Wait, what did you just do?"
"Oh, I just checked in to Foursquare."
"To what?"
"Foursquare!"
"What for?"
"Points! I might even become the mayor!"
"The mayo?"
"No, the... nevermind."

It all goes downhill from there, until I remember I can say "oh, sometimes restaurants give you stuff."

Then again, it's possible we're both actually crazy ;)

Re: The Important Lesson You Can Learn From Foursquare Day

Jessica — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:07:21 -0000

I love FourSquare however my community is in the dark ages when it comes to social media. Most businesses don't even know what it is. I try to educate them but they look at me like I am crazy. LOL