“Crowdsourcing”/ “open collaboration”/ “business2.0″ – this trend is being analyzed more carefully. This time it’s Booz Allen offering words of caution, remembering the 1980’s and the “Quality” movement (we’d add the “Re-engineering” frenzy). Success cases exist – we wouldn’t write this blog if we d ...
…. you’re supporting your competitor: I wonder how much money Ask is spending at Google in order to boost their own business. As a business that uses Google AdWords, you could hardly ask for a better endorsement of Google’s services and ads than a direct competitor also using their services. Related ...
Let’s get the background info out of the way: Two years ago, Netflix wanted to improve its movie recommendation system and decided on an experiment: let people have a go at it. The rules and official proposal are here, but the main idea is that if you could improve Netflix’s recommendations by 10%, ...
There were just so many choices for this column. Eventually I went for the one you see above, semi-reminiscent of Neal Postman’s famous anti-TV Amusing Ourselves to Death. But “John Dvorak Writes Good Column; World’s Jaw Drops” was a real possibility. Dvorak, of course, has been tilting at Macs for ...
Contrary to popular belief, using twitter for business is not a guarantee of success nor increased revenue. Savvy social networkers have found time-tested principles and tools that assist them with... @WWAHHMpreneur shares best practices on social networking, especially regarding twitter at tw-utori ...
Since I began blogging, I have always tried to focus on what I know will help businesses, nonprofits, professionals, writers and others who have goals similar to my own. As I continue to learn from... This WWAHHMpreneur is a Devoted and Very Busy Christian Woman, Wife And Homemaking Homeschooling Mo ...
