Dell’s Ideastorm.com: Crowdsourcing to Harness Collective Intelligence
Tweet The Web 2.0 social media world is a fantastic place to participate, sample, and ask for creative input from your audience. Crowdsourcing is according to the crowdsourcing wikipedia: “the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call.” The Ideastorm logo courtesy of Ideastorm.com Architecture of...
Read MoreIs Your Home Page Inviting Relationships or Alienating?
Tweet There’s a revolution going on right now and most companies don’t yet understand the shift. Web 2.0, the second generation of web development that facilitates communication, collaboration and the sharing of information, is changing the landscape and tone of business communications. The hard sell, in-your-face self promotion is no longer accepted by this generation. Instead, this world operates by an unwritten policy that...
Read MoreTwitter Strategies: Signal to Noise Ratio “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
Tweet “A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.” –Wise man of the villiage to the boy who cried wolf Many companies have no Twitter strategy nor an idea of the damage they do to their brand on a daily basis on Twitter. They spam and fill their Tweets with noise in a manner reminiscent of the old fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. In that fable, a boy tasked with guarding a flock of sheep...
Read MoreO’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Definition: Prophetic Warning Still Being Ignored in 2009
Tweet In 2005 social media and Web 2.0 forefather Tim O’Reilly compiled a definition of Web 2.0: now a prophetic warning to the print media. O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 definition: “Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more...
Read MoreEntrepreneurs & Job Seekers Look to Hollywood for Answers
Tweet In the 1930′s, 1940′s, and 1950′s kids would flock to Hollywood, California in search of their dreams of stardom in the moving pictures aka the movies. These kids, like Norma Jean or John Wayne, would hit town and immediately begin the process of “being discovered.” The 4 steps they would often take can be equated to today’s job seeker or entrepreneur in their quest to find a job or...
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