Exploring social business strategy

There’s a fantastic story on TechRadar today about “The Secret behind Threadless’ Success“. Like many other Web 2.0 success stories, the whole thing started as a hobby and almost accidently turned into a thriving business – with crowdsourcing shifting from something they were “unknowingly” doing to the center of their entire strategy. As co-founder Jake [...]

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The HP Social Computing Lab has taken an interesting look at the dynamics of crowdsourcing in relation to content consumption. Noting that we are in the midst of an inversion from the traditional model where relatively few people produce content and the majority simply consume it, the authors seek to explore an apparent paradox – [...]

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