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I want to make this space more social

http://mashable.com/2008/08/20/social-wordpress-blog-plugins/

CATFOA 4/27/2009 – David Armano

Ideation, co-creation, crowdsourcing, etc.

Best Buy is expanding its private label offerings based on the “mountains of customer feedback…”
Campbells soup wants your ideas
There’s an ideastorm brewing at Dell
Starbucks wants to shape their future with ideas from outside their walls
There’s clearly a trend here, the question I have is: how long do these companies have before their “idea pools” become [...]

Dear 99% of realtors: Game over

Anything a real estate broker can tell a client can now be put online.
Of course, money can still be made but not with the conventional (read: overpaid) approach.  Having worked in and around the real-estate industry, I can confidently say that this is a score for the average homebuyer. The NAR has been explicitly involved [...]

Stanford Workshops…mmmm…

With a whole mess of traditional institutions democratizing their resources, here’s some super relevant classes for anyone looking to navigate the storm:
http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/videoworkshop/

What’s the question-the answer is yes!

People generally hate being told no and paying customers hate to hear it even more.   Why then,  does it seem that so many companies and their representatives  are so eager – almost proud at times – to say no?
From an enterprise perspective I see the cause as two fold:
(a) It’s a natural side effect [...]