Anyone who’s been to London, knows the phrase “Mind the Gap” which warns people riding the Underground to watch their step as they go from platform to train. As I watched The Gap’s logo “update” unfold last week, “mind the gap” seemed apropos as a caution for businesses: watch your step or you might get hurt. …
Wow, it was pretty cool – we got to spend the day in a room filled with our crowdsourcing friends! @liman from SAP joined @shelleykuipers for the day at CrowdConf (Chaordix had a panel slot and sponsored the event) The planned keynote was Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing but he unfortunately missed the event – Lukas Biewald…
Way back in February we were invited by Matt Thompson at Mozilla to present to the Drumbeat community about our experiences with crowdsourcing technology ideas from initial concept through to development. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with Drumbeat, it’s a Mozilla initiative to crowdsource the design and development of things that will enhance…
Out at the GROW2010 conference in Vancouver (not to be confused with grow events of the horticulture variety), we got to hear from Lane Becker, Co-founder and VP Strategy of Get Satisfaction talked about “well that didn’t work – startup lessons learned.” He talked about Adaptive Path, MeasureMap (acquired by Google … Inspired GoogleAnalytics), and…
Crowdsourcing can be controversial. Nowhere is the debate more lively than in the world of advertising where who best to generate creative, who decides what is great, and how everyone involved should get paid is all up in the air. Join us March 31st, as we host a panel of industry experts from Victors &…
I attended the Gov2.0 online conference this morning and listened to 5 success stories on open government. I was really impressed with the quality of speakers and feel pretty inspired by all of the initiatives around web2.0, social media and the government. Jeff Nigbur, summarized this shift in thinking well during his presentation of the…
Tim O’Reilly asked Gov 2.0 Summitters to imagine small govt with big impact Web 2.0 summits have long been respected for bringing bright minds together to explore what’s working and what’s next in technology. The man behind the summits, Tim O’Reilly, hosted the first Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC Sept 9-10. Two of us…
The silence on David Rohde’s kidnapping has made a considerable amount of noise on the internet this week. The New York Times asked Wikipedia to keep news of Rohde’s kidnapping off the site. After printing an article explaining why, the rest of the blogosphere chimed in. Stan Schroder, from Mashable, weighed in with his thoughts,…
First, open your kimono The Xprize incentive 2 innovate conference was this week in New York, with Don Tapscott and Reid Hoffman among the speakers. Companies like Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi and Procter & Gamble as well as well as Unicef, USAID and the US Department of Energy were in attendance – all looking to…
This past Thursday evening, I attended the Web2Summit Planning Dinner in San Francisco. I attended the Web2Summit last year when the topic was Web Meets World and found it inspiring to be surrounded by very smart and generous people. The planning dinner was at the Foreign Cinema Café, definitely one of the coolest venues around.…