Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

community is uniquely prepared to solve. Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext , the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 Member since 08/2003. But of more interest, the use cases have evolved and practices are enabling new solutions that offer competitive advantage. disclosure.

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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. The “X factor,&# as PayPal president Scott Thompson, was the developer community.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Weve written about a number of companies that employ crowdsourcing to produce their product or service here on ReadWriteWeb, but in this post well specifically look at companies that allow you to leverage the crowd to get something done. Fixya is a question and answer community, in which people ask and answer technical support queries.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Be it MySpace or Facebook or whatever network works for your target demographic, companies and individuals interested in maintaining their personal brand need to establish and maintain a presence on social networks - especially if youre looking to connect with the younger crowd. © 2003-2008 ReadWriteWeb. POPULAR TAGS. mobile web.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Hence, they prefer the more limited view of PLEs as a configurable extension to a VLE, especially when they continue to see themselves as the monopoly technology service providers for their learning community (eg online enrolment, email addresses). Software development companies are keen to make their product or service a nexus of attention.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. I use it, have my "100% profile", nice network developed which helps me stay peripherally connected with colleagues who switch companies or move, and use "Questions" occasionally with good response.

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