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Thought leaders discuss the new crowd sourcing biz content, companies, & relationships.
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#crowdbizCrowd Sourced BusinessThought leaders discuss the new crowd sourcing biz content, companies, & relationships.
Esteban Contreras
What's your favorite #crowd startup? A few faves: Airbnb, Shapeways, KitchenSurfing, TaskRabbit, Uber, Kickstarter, Quirky, Watsi
John Furrier
easy CrowdChat Platform
John Furrier
i love kickstarter, some of the MOOCs in edu, Uber is great when not surging prices..
Brian Fanzo
I have made many purchase on @Kickstarter & @Quirky for Xmas & I am addicted to Uber
Rick Liebling
I'm rooting for @Watsi to succeed.
Greg Stewart
uber & all social-transport business . . . death to bad transportation! Maybe someone needs to work on a #crowd airline of sorts.
Dean of Big Data
Absolutely love Uber, though their variable pricing certainly dampens my enthusiasm
Esteban Contreras The new model lends itself to a new approach to pricing. Surge pricing has been an issue for a while now but users keep going back to Uber.
Dean of Big Data Danger zone for Uber. Must modify UEX to clearly call out most current price.
John Furrier agree @schmarzo ck out @samfbiddle investigative piece on Valleyway outing Uber on surge variable pricing
Dean of Big Data @furrier Surge variable pricing = Price gouging. Not good for customer advocacy development
John Furrier
btw CrowdChat got voted by VCs one of the hottest startups at @nodesummit two weeks ago..Crowd Activated Innovation..
Rick Liebling
What industry is missing a huge opportunity by not embracing the sharing economy right now? Healthcare? Telecoms? Financial Services?
Crowd Captain
All of the above.. imo - I still think that we are in a cross over year this year as tooling and technology make it easier for folks in organization who have the vision but need to show it with results
Dean of Big Data
Healthcare has too many privacy and HIPAA issues. Government & Education could be biggest winners
Greg Stewart is education already doing this via MOOCs? Obviously sharing features and popularity of use would need to increase.
Esteban Contreras .@schmarzo Education is already getting disrupted. MBAs are not exactly cool these days. Exciting: Udacity, General Assembly, Skillshare, Udemy, Khan Academy.
Dean of Big Data Agree on Ed. Govt Open Data Initiative huge success. #crowdchat natural next step
Dean of Big Data Except #BigData MBA is still cool ;-) @furrier
Esteban Contreras
.@RickLiebling old-ish example in telco: @GiffGaff. I talked to them back in 2009 http://socialnerdia.com/blog/2009/12/29/giffgaffs-robbie-hearn-on-crowdsourcing-and-the-power-of-eng.html. But what if we could share plans / content / devices with others?
John Furrier
Financial services is all over big data and is the leader but they firewall the outward push bc they use it for speed advantage.. telecom will need it for over the top products that have to drive revenue..
John Furrier
Recently @jowyang launched a new business around Crowd Companies - is the crowd a new force in social media both in reaching consumers and for content development
Rick Liebling
Not sure it is a *new* force as much as it is being harnessed more intelligently, or being given great opportunity.
John Furrier do you think companies are advanced in their thinking for crowd based innovation or just getting started with their "toe in the water"
Esteban Contreras @furrier Some brands are starting to think about #crowdbiz + #sharingeconomy in smart ways. Some are just following trends for campaigns but others are launching or piloting interesting efforts. TOMS and Ikea, for example.
Brian Fanzo Transparency is a hard thing to embrace & as companies start to embrace #Crowdbiz they have to be ok with hearing feedback that isn't always positive & having a plan for responding. Everyone asks for feedback but not everyone really wants it
Esteban Contreras
@jowyang gave me a tour of the San Francisco startup scene recently. All things crowd + the sharing economy are converging thanks to changes in consumer behavior and tech to facilitate #crowdbiz.
Rick Liebling
I think some are advancing their thinking, but as with most things in marketing, many take a "ready, fire, aim" approach.
John Furrier I think that like the web early days the tooling and techniques are evolving but the folks are directionally correct..why I think it's huge oppty
Rick Liebling
Really impressed with the CrowdChat platform. Great functionality. Well done!
John Furrier
when will my friends @scobleizer @garyvee @briansolis and other join us
Crowd Captain
I watched @scobleizer and @garyvee last week at #leweb both early pioneers in social with relevant advice on adding value
Crowd Captain @briansolis thanks for sharing..we love your work..keep paving the roads with innovation...
John Furrier
@briansolis is in the house
Crowd Captain conversation prism was the best thing ever and his books are amazing wrt Brian Solis
Crowd Captain
I want to jab jab and right hook @garyvee where is ...snap snap Gary V .. give us value :-)
Brian Solis
Here. Although it's a bit buggy on my end. @CrowdCaptain Thank you. I appreciate it.
CrowdChat Send us feedback. We're still working on LinkedIN integration. Try Logging with Twitter. Twitter has friendly API and battle tested =)
Zach Braiker
What attracting you to working with crowd based businesses?
Zach Braiker
attracting = attracted. I'm interested in understanding what people's interests and motivations with the category are.
Esteban Contreras
.@zachbraiker for me it is various trends colliding into #crowdbiz. Crowdsourcing is old, crowdfunding is becoming mainstream, and the sharing economy is a media darling. We are seeing microevolution and disruption.
Crowd Captain
relevance around targeted affinity groups that have same interest as me with the feeling of being part of a group
Dean of Big Data
Rapid sharing and expanding of ideas; test a concept and expand or fail fast
John Furrier
great question Zach .. people in groups is powerful and with big data and real time the social proof and results yield many benefits both tangible and intangible imho
Rick Liebling
The ability to have a connection with people that isn't completely filtered through traditional marketing principles.
Esteban Contreras
We are now seeing the mainstreamization of #crowdbiz startups like Uber and AirBnb. We will soon see viable platforms for anyone to launch sharing services.
Rick Liebling
Who will be the Craig's List or Amazon of Sharing Services?
Greg Stewart that should be an interesting development, no doubt. What are some new sharing services we should be looking out for in 2014?
John Furrier
CrowdTilt and Moovit both got massive funding
Esteban Contreras Near Me @NearMeCo is a good example of a "sharing economy" #crowdbiz platform: "Create and manage your own
peer-to-peer website." http://near-me-app.com/
CrowdChat both of it happened just in course of one week. Crowd mojo. A new way to think. CrowdSourced transcript/whitepaper/content-jam as this one, is next.
Brian Fanzo
SocialMedia enables anyone to be the marketing & voice of their brand.. #Crowdbiz will enable backing & quicker standup time than ever before..
CrowdChat
CrowdChat's mission = Unify hashtags across multiple social networks. Make Crowd conversations easy and discoverable. #CrowdChat
Brian Fanzo
The #Hashtag marriage across networks & conversations will equal the a time of true open social collaboration!
John Furrier #crowdchat is open fully democratic in it's design - unification of networks is future of collaboration society starts with talking then action then business
John Furrier
Question for thought leaders: Top 3 innovations that you're most excited about and why for #socbiz - discuss
Crowd Captain
Machine Learning and real time filtering of social streams across all social networks is my favorite innovation.. the crowd is and will be forever a key part of the data..business data has been around but machine and human data will be huge force this year
John Furrier Unification of networks using the #hashtag is what I am most excited about with the CrowdChat Platform
Brian Fanzo
Integration of Video chat, digital content management & external social media within a companies #SocBiz providing a true home for collaboration & interaction for employees to become more productive!
Esteban Contreras
Good chat everyone. I'd like to invite u to a private / Fb group that has 200+ members talking about #allthingscrowd - DM me yr email if you're interested.
Crowd Captain
That group that you've put together is very good group of thought leaders.. well done