Grow a Popular and Profitable Online Community

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Want to make a living by hosting an online community? See this thorough post on exactly how Motley Fool creates multiple ways for amateur investors to help each other make smarter choices. 
Because the process and results are transparent you can see credible comparisons. That’s a trust-building feature for attracting members to any community. 

Denis Hancock describes how they evoked this Wisdom of Crowds effect to grow a profitable [...]

Posted in Collective Intelligence, community | 4 Comments »

Support Your Cause or Hobby With Maps Mashups and Widgets

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Want concrete ways to become more successful with others than you can on your own? Then adapt a real life Me2We-captured success story and underlying method to your work or life situation.
Every few days you’ll find fresh examples here, taken from one of the blogs on Links, our blog roll. Here’s your first [...]

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Reduce Your Risk in Hiring the Right Designer

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

A big stumbling block in hiring the graphic designer who most “gets” your business is this. You won’t know if you’ll like the design until after you put your money down. The smaller your business and budget the greater the risk it seems.
That’s how it works at two popular places, ifreelance and Elance. Buyer [...]

Posted in CrowdSource | 2 Comments »

Freakanomics, Wisdom of Crowds … and Your Big Book

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Why do we do what we do? Books with a big idea about how we live, work, spend, think or otherwise behave are, well, big right now. And you have a notion about how things happen now, in our flattening, new normal world. Right? Not got the time to write the book? [...]

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