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Why Social Media Means Open Business

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Jamie Burke CEO of Ninety10Group recently created a slide-deck on why Social Media Means Open Business, the title is “Social Media = Open Business”. Recent events both on the political and corporate landscape demonstrate what he has developed in his presentation: a culture of activism is being enabled and amplified by an increasingly ubiquitous and [...]

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Are Google and Facebook the biggest Open Research platforms?

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Why Google and Facebook are the biggest Open Research platforms? When thinking about open research one might look primary at Universities: MIT, Standford, Cambridge,  Oxford, CBS and many other top universities worldwide. When looking at open research one can have a look at sophisticated innovative platforms getting real time data using very advanced software. But [...]

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Open comms and the future of communications?

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Open comms; an admirable world of voices to listen to and to watch wind blowing data! When we think about communications for business, were is the wind blowing? Optimists can point to the introduction of new areas powered by social technologies that somehow open business towards a relation and interaction with customers, new structures of [...]

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Whither Open Data?

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Open Data is becoming of age nowadays. The idea of opening up closed, proprietary data, for public consumption would have been heretical a decade ago. But, advances in Web technology (we are currently riding the maturity curve of 2.0, going toward a 3.0 or semantic web), proliferation of social media, and a general appetite for [...]

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What drives Co-creators beyond monetary rewards?

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Monetary rewards as necessary condition and signal for ethics and commitment In my last post I talked about the importance of monetary and rewards and non-cash prices in social business as it attracts extrinsically motivated people and it shows the company’s attitude, recognition and commitment towards collaboration with external stakeholders. Attractive rewards signal that a [...]

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Be prepared for the coming ”War for Co-Creators”

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The strategic relevance of ethics, commitment and rewards in Co-Creation   Ethics in Social Media Research – the privacy debate In the market research community the discussion about data privacy and guidelines for social media research (mainly focused on listening) is peaking right now as ESOMAR, CASRO, MRS and other Market research associations have published [...]

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Domino’s Time Square Billboard: Open Communications

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Times Square in New York is nicknamed “The Crossroads of the World.” People come from all over the world to visit this New York landmark.  The advertising signs that companies rent space for are seen by millions of people every day. “The Zipper” is the scrolling new sticker on the former NY Times building at [...]

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Open business: Online Activism interview with Greenpeace Social Media Team

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The organisations that will succeed will use their available resources to discover people who care about the same things they do and bring them together to achieve shared goals. Charities demonstrate the model. The cause-related enterprise, the belief-driven business – an organisational model which places the customer at the heart rather than at the end [...]

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Project Framework: Phase 1: Creating a Council for Open Business

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Open Business Council platform have just begun phase 1 of the its Co-creation Project. Open Business Council is a Pan European organisation with a global reach and network that wants to create anm active development of solutions and reflection towards the practice of Open Business. Open Business Council is actively contacting and recruiting a varitey [...]

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Open Research: consumer demand and business agility

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Open Research and the critical challenge for Business Research is critical for business. The systematic investigation about what is necessary for a given business, product, audience is something that any organisation needs to bear in mind, namely in a social media world. This can also be done though a concept of Open Research: a study [...]

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