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Crowdsourcing Ideas
Crowdsourcing is a powerful tool to gain insights from a broad range of contributors. Many websites now have crowdsourced type feedback mechanisms that allow interested users to publicly contribute feature ideas and rate the ideas of others.
Many retail businesses are asking their customers what type of products they would like (eg. Starbucks and Dell). Others are offering up prizes for accomplishing some task that is helpful to the business. (eg. Netflix prize for improving their recommendation engine.
Q1: What does crowdsourcing mean to you?
Q2: What are the strengths and weaknesses/pitfalls of crowdsourcing?
Q3: What examples have you heard about or seen/delivered in your own business? Good Tools?
Q4: What will crowdsourcing become? More widespread? Different in some way?
What is wrong with KM?
KM has been around for quite a while now. We all agree it is incredibly valuable to organizations so why is it not getting the widespread attention that we feel it deserves. This chat will aim to dig into some of those reasons and may even get ambitious enough to come up with some ideas to change course.
Q1: Why is KM as a discipline not more widespread/popular than it is today?
Q2: Is part of the issue with KM the type of people it attracts?
Q3: What could KM be doing differently to improve the course?
Q4: Should we break up the band and focus on individual facets vs. KM as a whole?
Q5: What other industries/practices have similar problems? Can we learn anything from them?
A KMers workgroup project
US chat time is 12pm EST, 9am PST
This chat will be about the possibility of creating a KMers virtual workgroup to accomplish some task that we feel is worthwhile.
What is a virtual workgroup?
What would we try to accomplish?
How would we work together?
Should we proceed? If so, what are the next steps?
