A Love Note to Lurkers
There was a lot of talk at this year’s Open Nation about the number of lurkers in IdeaScale communities: those community members who sign on, create a profile and view [...]
Creating Innovation Value
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, researchers Peder Inge Furseth and Richard Cuthbertson discuss their findings from a review of innovation case studies from corporate leaders such as Borders, [...]
Can Ideation Build Community?
Ideas pull us together. The history of communities shows they're formed around ideas. Those ideas can be anything from colonizing space to just the idea that this particular place on [...]
Collaborative Crime Fighting: the Department’s Most Powerful Weapon
photo courtesy of ian britton via flickr Information travels faster now than ever before, and you don’t have to be an AARP member to notice the change. According [...]
70 Creative Reward Suggestions
No matter what you’re using your ideation or crowdsourcing community for, it’s proven that using incentives can improve not only the level of engagement, but also the quality of the [...]
Community and Compensation: The Palmer Controversy
It’s been a strange year for Amanda Palmer: record-setting highs that shook that music industry and trend-revealing lows. In one of her most recent interviews, she was seemingly disappointed at [...]