Yes, We Plan: How Altruism and Advertising Could Change the World
Here is a very interesting idea of using crowd sourcing concepts, combined with social media tools, to engage, organize and motivate people to actually accomplish something positive and altruistic, by helping them move beyond “just talk” or “joining groups”, and by enabling and empowering them into action in a novel way. I think that if successful, any tools that in large daunting projects help break down and reduce the scope into doable chunks, would have much wider applications in our lives both at home and at work. I think we could all use help in moving...
read moreA practical example of "Crowdsourcing"
In the last couple of years I have been involved with several social community and small businesses wanting to increase or optimize their web presence. I seem to repeatedly come across some of the same challenges for such smaller businesses, for example: They may have part of the needed expertise, but lack the graphic design skills to produce good graphics for their site, OR They have a site but do not know how to search optimize it, OR They feel they are not getting enough options and choices, OR The prices they are quoted are outside of their range So, here is an approach to...
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