Appirio CloudSpokes – For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)
Two weeks back, the cloud based systems integrator Appirio announced a new developer community called CloudSpokes. This is an attempt by Appirio to crowdsource cloud development work on public cloud platforms. They already have a good group of developers inside USA and have an offshore partner in India. They are trying to build a community [...]
YouTube and Community Guidelines could mean being locked out of your account
Two years ago I did a number of videos about using Google Hacking and how simple it was to use Google as an intelligence vehicle for sites and people who did not properly secure their infrastructure. Over the last month two of those videos were flagged by the community as inappropriate with the end result [...]
Six Factors in Emergent Innovation
In discussing employee-driven innovation, having a technology platform to deliver on objectives is a key part of a company’s strategy. Hard to get everyone tuned in when you rely only on email and conversations with your cubicle mates. But that’s just one factor. There are many other considerations for companies seeking to vault to the [...]
ComMetrics on Crowdsourcing Innovation: You’re Doing It Wrong
ComMetrics is a social media analytics company, a division of CyTRAP Labs GmbH. ComMetrics is well-known in the industry, including its FT ComMetrics Blog Index. The company published a useful piece, Crowd-wisdom fails businesses. The basic premise is that crowds do not innovate. It’s useful, because it contains both truths and misconceptions about the role [...]
The Exclusion that is a Community
A caveat on this post: I hesitated to write this – mostly because I think it’s very easy for the author (me) to cross a line of being provocative for provocative-ness’ sake, and for readers/commenters (you) to misinterpret my meaning here. Please be gentle. There were a few tweets flying around at JiveWorld last week [...]
Management by Community
At the Spigit Customer Summit, Gary Hamel described an innovative management approach that has stuck with me. W.L. Gore management has a hands-off approach to managing employees. Each employee is free to say ‘no’ to any request by a colleague. That’s right. Refuse to do something a colleague asks. Damn, that sounds pretty good, doesn’t [...]
Webstock – Derek Powazek – The Wisdom of Communities
Author of “Design for Community, The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places”, Powazek is an alumnus of HotWired, Blogger and Technorati and he wondered why despite the wisdom of the crowds (Google “James Surowiecki”), community generated content tends to be somewhat *low brow* results… The four elements of crowd wisdom are; Diversity Independence [...]
Start Ups – Your Customers Are Your World
The best thing about the move to closer relationships between businesses and their customers is the ability to disintermediate the myriad of middlemen that characterise traditional commerce. This interest isn’t purely intellectual – in one of my other lives I own and help run a business that (gasp) manufacturers real products in (bigger gasp) a [...]
