What we learned at @CrowdConf

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…

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Making sense of crowdsourced data

Is it true? Do I understand it? Is it data I can apply to perform better, right now? Turns out crowdsourcing has a lot in common with information governance. This week at a beautiful desert oasis in New Mexico, Chaordix participated on IBM’s Data Governance Council Forum to work on strengthening and modernizing the Maturity…

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Moderation – Mandatory for Crowdsourcing Success

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…

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Crowdsourcing demands data openness – Wait! That’s scary like email!

Remember when email first hit the scene and was feared as an unruly and lawless tool to propagate information chaos and over-disclosure? Well I discovered those same fears are conjured by today’s social tools and crowdsourcing among major enterprises while at an IBM conference on data governance in New Platz, NY. First, a big thank…

• By Shelley Kuipers
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What does it take to be a leader of an open innovation culture?

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…

• By Patrick Audley
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