20. Be Socially Responsible!
“YOU SAID WHAT?!?”
Right person in the social role
Clear rules of engagement
Empowered & trusted to respond
Keep it Simple Sir/Sista (KISS)
28. What is Crowdsourcing?
Defined
Crowdsourcing is an engagement process whereby organizations seek input
from either open or closed communities of people, either homogenous or
not, to contribute ideas, solutions, or support in an open process whereby the
elements of creativity, competition and campaigning are reinforced through
social media to come up with more powerful ideas or solutions than could be
obtained through other means.
Why Bother?
Organizations have a difficult time engaging with their communities to
strengthen their relationship and be citizen focused. Internal or external, the
community has ideas that can be harnessed that come from diverse
backgrounds, experiences and education.
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29. Who is your crowd?
Internal
Experts
Emergent Experts
(online community leaders,
Engagement product advocates)
Targets
Customers &Prospects
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30. Does your brand matter?
Strong brands foster active crowds
• Element of trust
• It only takes one disingenuous campaign to cause
problems for you
• Transparency fosters participation
• Social media footprint does matter
• Prospects may have bought into your brand but not
your products yet – how are you keeping them
engaged?
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31. The Appeal
• Crowdsourcing surfaces new perspectives
• Invites participation from nontraditional
sources
• Infuses real energy into the process of generating ideas
• Empowers people when they feel their voice is being heard
• Technology can enable participation by disenfranchised
(ie. PCs in libraries/shelters with citizen engagement
campaigns)
• Builds engagement and relationships with new audiences
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32. Crowdsourcing Pros and Cons
PROS CONS
• Reduced time to market • Less control
• Reduced risk due to early customer • Needed trust not easily come by in
input
some organizations
• Increased customer lifecycle value
• Requires community management
• Broader source of innovation
• Suffers if crowd is too narrow
• Strengthened brand through
participation • Disruptive to traditional timelines for
• Organizations can’t have all the product roll outs
brightest people on staff • First attempt is risky until you
• Ideas don’t have to be discovered by understand your crowd
internal R&D teams to be capitalized • Need to know your target audience
upon
• Benefits from varied experiences
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33. Example 1: Innovation from the Crowd
IdeaStorm was created to give a direct
voice to Dell’s customers and an
avenue to have online “brainstorm”
sessions to allow them to share ideas
and collaborate with one another and
Dell. Their goal through IdeaStorm is to
hear what new products or services
you’d like to see Dell develop.
In almost three years, IdeaStorm has
crossed the 10,000 idea mark and
implemented nearly 400 ideas!
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34. Example 2: Product Development from the Crowd
Quirky is an all in one
product development
shop for inventors.
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35. Example 3: Product Selection by the Crowd
Threadless runs regular
campaigns to select
designs that are then
produced and sold to a
ready-made market that
participated in the product
selection.
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36. Example 4: Product Selection by the Crowd
Starbucks uses the same platform as Dell and
Salesforce.com for their social product development.
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37. Example 5: Salesforce
What do your current
customers want to see on
your roadmap?
What features are needed
to turn prospects into
customers?
Democracy?
1 vote = 1 customer
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38. Best Practices
• Have a clear strategy for using crowdsourcing
• IP Ownership
• Competitive visibility
• Break things down so crowd is clear what you are looking for
• Build trust
• Be open in your communications about the crowd’s role in the
process
• Do what you say you are going to do
• ABEYC – always be expanding your crowd
• The crowd needs to be big enough – but not too big
• ABRYC – always be refining your crowd
• Creating diversity is as important as creating size
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39. Build a Social Product Strategy
• Reach customers & prospects where they live – join in the
conversations that are happening already
• Capitalize on valuable customer and prospect insight
• Develop a culture of collaboration
• Implement the right social technology to get the job done
• Communicate results and intentions and be open as
possible
• Let conversations happen in the open
• Be crowd friendly on an ongoing basis
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40. Ideavibes Crowd Engagement Platform
• Easy to set-up and deploy
• Able to run multiple campaigns at once
• Can run Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Campaigns
• Build stickiness and community around those that engage
(sign-in and see past votes, comments, ideas)
• Hosted solution (in Canada)
• Able to be implemented on existing website or set-up in new,
destination site
• Social Media connected
• One of few sub $1000/month solutions
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41. How Does Ideavibes Compare?
• Enterprise Collaboration or Idea Management
– Large – multi-functioning platforms for Idea Management
– Integrated into change management and process improvement
lifecycles
– Chaordix, Bright Idea, etc.
• Middle-tier Focused Crowdsourcing Apps
– Purpose-built customizable apps focused on crowdsourcing
– Narrow or wide focus
– Multiple crowdsourcing and crowdfunding campaigns
– Ideavibes, Spigit
– Note – Ideavibes is only white label crowdfunding platform available
• Ad-hoc website or Social Media widgets
– Developed by web teams with basic functionality
– Functionality as opposed to business process driven
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42. Resources
• The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki
• Crowdsourcing – Jeff Howe
• Crowdsourcing.org
• Crowdsortium.org
• The Daily Crowdsource
• Presentation will be on Slideshare by end of day today.
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43. 10 Day Product Launch Strategy
• Free @ www.sandboxpm.com
• Target your ideal customer
• Develop marketing messages
• Soft launching & customer testimonials
• Pricing
• Incentives & offers
• Your marketing campaign
• Spreading the word
• Media attention
• Systems go!
• Launch day
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45. Calls to Action
• Download Ideavibes whitepapers on crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
www.ideavibes.com
• Sign-up for a 45-Day Free Trial of the Ideavibes Platform at
www.ideavibes.com
• Sign-up for the Sandbox PM Product Launch Program
• Start a conversation with us about social product management or open
innovation and how it could work for your organization
Paul Dombowsky
Ideavibes
+1.613.878.1681
paul@ideavibes.com
www.ideavibes.com
Anastasia Valentine
Sandbox PM
+1.613.219.3020
avalentine@sandboxpm.com
www.sandboxpm.com
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