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Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:37:05 -0000

Brandon is one smart dude. I like much of his writing.

Remember crowdsourcing is about problem solving. Community management is about fostering the community so that when you need to turn to them to help solve a problem, they will be ready and willing to help.

Thats the trick. Creating an environment where your community is passionate and where a open line of communication exists is paramount to successfully utilizing crowdsourcing as problem solving tool.

Passion isnt inherent nor can it spontaneously appear. It comes from exactly what you wrote: a sense of belonging, and understanding that each person has a real effect on the future of the business. Its non-competitive. Its open communication.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:30:42 -0000

I think that you are missing the point...slightly. The idea is that if the crowd is large enough, and they are focused on improving the product and/or company, then the "wisdom" is derived from that size. Its not about the "right" decision; its about the "right" decision for the community.

With Threadless, its about what designs would the community buy if they were on a tshirt. With TomTom its about the accuracy of their maps and the additional information (POI) than enhance those maps.

The key to crowdsourcing is that its the community improving the community. I would argue that Digg lost its community a long time ago. That it became less about improving the community and more about individual gain. That the community at large was no longer a cohesive unit focused on the improvement of Digg as a whole.

Wisdom, is often in the eye of the beholder, and if a company allows their community to drive their direction they may make conventional unwise decisions, but market smart ones.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:26:06 -0000

The definition of crowdsourcing is using "a crowd" (usually unpaid) to solve a problem. In TomTom's case its keeping its maps up to date. Its a classic usage of crowdsourcing. Your perception is where crowdsourcing has gotten off the rails.

The idea is that if you take a bunch of folks and throw them at a problem, the outcome will correct for the outliers and the folks trying to game/break the system. But, at its basis, its allowing a group of people (usually a large group of people) help solve a problem.

Take Threadless, usually used as the poster child for crowdsourcing. They are using a group of people to come up with the "best" tshirt designs (read most sellable). Then Threadless selects from the group of "best" tshirt designs and prints those. This is much different than CrowdSpring, which is not traditional crowdsourcing, but rather a contest. With Crowdspring, the "crowd" competes against itself to come up with a single design selected by the crowdspring user. In the traditional sense, it is not crowdsourcing.

Re: ABX, target price is higher than 42.2

zstock — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:06:20 -0000

I have to log in to Disqus, everytime I want to post a comment

Re: Graphite Offers Simple Weight Loss and Exercise Monitoring Tools

giannii — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:39:55 -0000

totally.

Re: This Must Be the Place

beanieville — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:21:05 -0000

Most people believe that what is driving the market is massive liquidity from printing money liberally and from zero interest rate (thereby spawning speculations), and surely the market will go much higher as a result. Most bears believe these driving forces. Yet they continue to short the market? I do not understand.

Re: ABX, target price is higher than 42.2

zstock — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:32:39 -0000

all the gold stocks hit my short sell targets, or close enough, lets just see if the dollar knocks em out now!

Re: This Must Be the Place

timprophet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:51:24 -0000

Oh, Gawd. Yeah, he's a local here. His investing wisdom is right up there with his good looks.

Re: This Must Be the Place

timprophet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:50:27 -0000

It would take a lot more technical damage.

Re: Live Chat Tuesday: Questions about the new NashuaTelegraph.com?

nashuatelegraph — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:48:42 -0000

Unfortunately not much we can do about that I think. We can try and let Yahoo know - but the problem is on their end. Thanks for the heads up though.

Re: SNL Tops Hulu’s Weekly “Movers & Shakers” List

adamostrow — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:42:43 -0000

probably should've included that ... this was for November 2nd - 8th

Re: This Must Be the Place

timprophet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:16:21 -0000

As you know, the title is Naive Melody, but point up for getting the reference.

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:35:43 -0000

Good point

Re: Inside the cells of murder suspects

nashuatelegraph — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:35:27 -0000

They are not actually missing - they are just in versions of the stories in different URLs. Once we fix that they will more or less reappear.

thanks

Damon Kiesow
Managing Editor / Online

Re: A Value Proposition

beanieville — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:13:53 -0000

We did retrace..and it was today and not much. So we should continue to rally tomorrow.

I think people are calling for a pullback too soon. The technicals just don't show it. Maybe the elliotwavers have mystical charts, but the regular charts don't show it.

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:58:15 -0000

Agreed....but in both events, n+1 is more likely to result in less bread given than n+1.

Re: A Value Proposition

beanieville — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:51:59 -0000

I'm long.

Re: Inside the cells of murder suspects

nashuatelegraph — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:49:12 -0000

Seriously - relax. You may have noticed we have launched a new Web site and are still working through technical problems.

Thank you

Damon Kiesow
Managing Editor / Online

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:48:54 -0000

Gotcha....probably one of your Ie5 settings :)

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:47:12 -0000

I like to preemptively ask for more, become the hero of the table, and wait for the hot ones to come out, letting the original "lucky roll" at least make it back to the kitchen as he had seen so many +1s before him...

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:29:17 -0000

Even better....brilliant viral marketing. "we were at dinner and the rolls were so good a fight broke out over the last one!"

Re: Selfish generousity, or the value of n+1

andyswan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:23:00 -0000

Explain the ibc disqus fear-mongering campaign!

Re: Your readers are paying you — with attention

mathewi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:41:22 -0000

So newspapers fail to convert readers who come in through search. Is
that Google's fault, or the Internet's fault, or is it the fault of
the newspaper for not knowing (or caring) how to engage and convert
and retain readers? Better to focus on charging an ever-shrinking
number of devoted readers ever-increasing sums for the same old
content. Great strategy.

Re: Startup Ecosystems Take Time

fredwilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:24:50 -0000

The universities need to work with the city to foster innovation in areas like biotech and cleantech. Its happening. But not like MIT/Harvard or Stanford/Berkeley. Your observation is spot on

Re: Startup Ecosystems Take Time

fredwilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:21:42 -0000

Depends on the category. In biotech and clean tech, absolutely. In web services, I doubt it