Whether you’re on a project team, party-planning or seeking customers’ input to improve your product you have more chance of success with the right collaborative tools.
Often, the trouble is finding the best methods or tools when you need them. Here’s a shareable list to which you can add your favorites. It’s exciting and overwhelming to [...]

What if you could effortlessly launch a daily online news summary -based on your favorite interest or expertise –  one that can be viewed as an elegant magazine?
You  now can because of Twitter and a popular start-up paper.li.  Your “daily” can cover the current tweets of all the people you follow or  the stories you [...]

Like the Aussies, you’d probably jump at the chance to preserve your country’s past – especially if you could fit your volunteer work into convenient breaks in your day.  That’s why it’s worth your while to learn about the crowdsourced Trove project.
But another reason is that you might be able to adapt the Trove approach [...]

There’s a simple, satisfying way to attract those who share your interests or seek your kind of product.  It enables you to demonstrate your expertise and it doesn’t take much time nor cost anything.
Sharing helpful tips with those who want them is more appreciated – and credibility-building – than self-promotion. In a time-starved world, the [...]

See him passionately reading the bible on the street corner, while being videoed?  Don’t avert your gaze and quickly walk around him. Take a closer look.
You may be witnessing a clever method that you could adapt to drawing attention to your favorite cause, idea, product or organization both in-person and online. 
Here’s how. While this [...]

If a coffee shop owner and a former minister can make money by leading groups then, perhaps, so can you and I.  In the following success stories see if there’s a method you’d like to try. With the right approach people are happy to pay you for the opportunity to hone a skill they already have [...]

Instead of standing on a stage, one comedian at a time, humorists were leaning over their computers, waiting with bated breath for quirky Brit Tiernan Douieb to say “Go!”  In this Twitter Comedy Club experiment, drawing a crowd of 6,000 each comedian had a 10 minute act. They madly delivered their best lines in 140-characters, one after the other. [...]

… to identify those products for site visitors to then click and buy. That’s the mutually-profitable crowdsourcing angle for us and for Pixazza, a start-up that generated buzz because of support from Google Ventures. 

This tool may be especially hot for publishers of celebrity/gossip-style sites such as I’m Not Obsessed! which has been using the technology.

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Anyone seeking more meeting participation may be discovering new ways by attending Obama-led town hall meetings. Some opinion leaders find Obama’s inferred endorsement of google tools jarring. Yet the three he’s using would be helpful to most any event planner, cause advocate, online entrepreneur or global team leader.  They are free, easy to use and scalable:

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Grow your business faster by finding the sweet spot of mutual benefit that motivates others to support your success. Peruse 135 real-life examples to find one to adapt to your kind of work.  From customer-designed products to near-instant group help 

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