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 [...]

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Buy the Safest Products for You and the World, With the Help of ….

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

… a good guide. Now here’s a new company I’ll use and hope will succeed.  GoodGuide has recruited scientists and other “trusted advisors” and gathered facts from a wide range of resources to enable you to make wiser choices about the consumer products you buy. It rates products three ways: health, social and environmental. At [...]

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How Our Tech Helps Us Get Along – or Not

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Bluntly speaking, we are more likely to cooperate in a group when those who don’t get punished. “Darwin had a blind spot. It wasn’t that he didn’t see the role of cooperation in evolution. He just didn’t see how important it is.” Little has changed until relatively recently.

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Avoid Death by Meeting With a Crowd Wisdom Method

Friday, October 26th, 2007

We’ve all served on committees where a few diligent people did most of the work. Or gotten stuck in a boring meeting, where some just yakked and yakked. No agenda. No incentives to work smart. Time drags. You could get it done faster and better on your own.
Collaboration is only as strong as the [...]

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