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Social technologies have reached unprecedented heights in 2012, being increasingly used to create a new method of business management (social business). Gartner Group’s experts said that ‘the next...
This article has addressed two very contrasting impacts of crowdsourcing on the design industry - threat and opportunities, with excellent examples.
Before one decides to crowdsource (particularly on company logos), you need to know the following first: Designers can’t afford to spend too much time on your logo – especially if your award is...
Napkin Labs is a web platform that allows companies to engage consumers and innovators in a truly collaborative process for market research, product ideation, and concept refinement. They believe...
Doonited is a social business with the cause to cultivate a positive and responsible lifestyle as the base for a peaceful society. Doonited creates a global movement of people doing small good in...
Every business needs to build and nurture relationships in order to retain and grow its customer base. These relationships are built by providing quality products and services and by giving...
A few suggestions in selecting your crowd for this innovation are the following: 1. Decide if you want an open “crowd” 2. Articulate your goal and process clearly so that the right people...
Social Forecasting is based on a simple concept, which combines the approach of crowdsourcing with an incentive mechanism for users to contribute their best knowledge. Crowdsourcing participants...
Here are some principles of mass collaboration: *Participation–You want to encourage participation from across your organization. *Collective–As collaboration will involve taken relatively...
The growth of online and mobile shopping has contributed to this slump in sales. Home delivery has been growing at double digits. Customers are using coupons, local shops and offers to get the...
Social business seems to have many meanings, but the most powerful is surely "the creation of shared value" for everybody in a business value chain. Customer co-creation projects are a good case in point. Super-users of a product get new insights into the product and an opportunity to be involved in its design — value for the product manufacturer, value for the user.
To explore this topic, Haydn Shaughnessy worked with Global Dawn, the social business platform, to create an infographic that traces the history of social business — but this is a crowdsourced project.
The Phone-A-Friend “expert” gets the answer correct 65% of the time. Asking the audience, or crowdsourcing the decision, results in a correct answer 91% of the time.
Social technologies in the context of business use are critical in facilitating open innovation. These technologies are bundled into four broad areas: 1. The role of social idea management and...
With SpigitEngage for Facebook, organizations practice co-creation, tapping customer insights through idea generation, collaboration, contests and game dynamics. Using this fun, natural customer...
It is common knowledge that men and women are opposites, and all the more so when it comes to their perception. Witology’s facilitators are of both sexes and all ages. Some time ago I became...
On the one hand, since lase 6months there has been genuine progress in methodological and analytical description of social business classes, models, and use cases. The classification has been...
Witology is based on several breakthrough technology ideas that (1) had been simply absent in IT theory and practice before, and which (2) have a very high potential for commercial use.
Post “Witology, IBM, Google and Semantic Social Network” discussed the great potential of a complex network model handling data on people and texts they generate. It was also said that at present...
According to Winterberry Group’s Outlook 2012, digital marketing spending will increase 17.4% to $ 40.6 billion in 2012, as compared to 2011. Different digital marketing segments will grow in...
It is no secret that a troll is not only a supernatural being in Scandinavian folklore, but also an Internet user who indirectly provokes communities into arguments, causing confusion and...
The world’s first crowdsourced car was the small Fiat Mio. Fiat started its development in 2009 and revealed the new car at the Sao Paulo Auto Show in October 2010. The design of the car was a...
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