Readiness tips for crowdsourcing the first-time, and every time after I spent much of the day yesterday with Carrie Maynard at PWC working out the game plan to launch and manage a community which PWC is creating to uncover how Canada can best lead in a digital economy. It’s an initiative that combines some of the things…
We had a great call this morning with some people working Mozilla’s Drumbeat project, including Matt Thompson and Mark Surman. We tried to share some insights from the Cambrian House community and hope they were helpful to the Drumbeat crew. Not everyone contributes in the same way -The Cambrian House community had a pretty complex system to award…
Stefan Lindegaard is a speaker, network facilitator and strategic advisor who focuses on the topics of open innovation, intrapreneurship and how to identify and develop the people who drive innovation. He wrote a great post on his blog about recognition for innovation. Here’s what he had to say: Recognizing and Rewarding Innovation You need to…
The community manager in me hates it when people talk about launching a crowdsourcing community as though it is something that’s disposable. I much prefer when people are worried about keeping their community engaged and rewarded. It shows that you are willing to invest in the people that are investing their time in your product…
Crowdsourcing Definition #2: What is Group Think (and how to avoid it)? Here’s a question just in to us that we hear all the time “How do you deal with the loud talker problem? You know, the people that just like to talk and talk in an online community and can skew the impression of…