Wisdom of Crowds

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• The Wisdom of Crowds

  
  Keeping Kids First — Authority: 111
  Winter break is always one of my most sacred times to read and absorb new information from news, Twitter, books and journals. Some is purely for fun and entertainment, while I also try to bring in something to push myself professionally and just to get to asking more questions. One book I picked up this year was ...
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• Twas the Night Before Jigsaw

  
  Garth's World — Authority: 402
  Twas the summer of ‘03, and sales numbers were lean, The economy was slow and competition was mean. Marketing was asked to create leads from thin air, Salespeople were pulling out tufts of our hair. The Internet provided company listings for free, but who sells to buildings, not you and not me. We sales types ...
  3 days ago

• Democracy, Tyranny, And The Online Revolution

  
  Better Health — Authority: 547
  Image by pomarc via Flickr When status quos collapse, for whatever reasons, are their replacements necessarily better? Does the demise of traditional media powers mean that new media powers will lead to more Democracy? Will cultivated professions which require years of training and mistakes and experience – such ...
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• Reviewing Science Fiction Books With Statistics

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 417
  Before the Internet if you wanted to find a rip-roaring science fiction novel to read you’d flip through the books at your favorite bookstore and hope to stumble upon the next mind-blowing sci-fi novel to change your life.  Or you’d ask your best buds about which books knocked them into orbit.  True fans ...
  6 days ago

• Settlers of the Shift

  
  Education Futures — Authority: 111
  I like conceptual maps –tools for illustrating the relationships among ideas– and, Tero Heiskanen created an interesting one . It’s huge . Without any further commentary: Settlers of the shift is an open map of experts, organizations and ideas that are scattered around the globe. It’s for people whose ...
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• Rebooting the association

  
  Innovation Cloud — Authority: 103
  While media budgets are squeezed still further as we trudge onward under the cloud of recession, trillionesque debt and the massive public spending cuts gathering on the horizon, the focus on social media ROI grows ever sharper, but less energy is expended looking at the benefits that focused online communities can ...
  2 weeks ago

• ComMetrics on Crowdsourcing Innovation: You’re Doing It Wrong

  
  I'm Not Actually a Geek — Authority: 519
  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 ...
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• Crowd-wisdom fails businesses

  
  ComMetrics: social media monitoring => best practice — Authority: 114
  In his book The Wisdom of Crowds (2004), James Surowiecki popularized the notion that, under the right conditions, canvassing the aggregate opinions of many people could be more efficient than relying on the expertise of a few. Jeff Howe applied this approach to decision-making using the buzzword ...
  2 weeks ago

• Individually smarter, collectively dumber?

  
  The bamboo raft — Authority: 117
  In my first corporate job back in Brazil, I was part of a large cohort of interns who end up all being hired together. We were young and well-connected, and always on top of everything that was happening in the company, from official stuff to the proverbial grapevine telegraph. Rumour conversations used to start like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diane Hessan – The Twitter 20 Interview About Brand Communities

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 137
  Diane Hessan knows the wisdom of crowds first-hand. As the CEO of Communispace, a fast-growing major player in the brand community creation and management industry, she’s helped drive consumer insight and product innovation for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. Co-author of the book Customer Centered Growth, Diane ...
  3 weeks ago

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