The document outlines user stories and types for an open collaboration platform called ProM. It provides examples of individuals and projects intentionally seeking collaboration through ProM as well as individuals and projects passively discovering opportunities through browsing ProM. The examples illustrate individuals creating projects, projects seeking collaboration, individuals offering skills to projects, and individuals facilitating connections between projects.
This week, we distill insights around PlanBig - a platform created by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to connect changemakers and support them in bringing their ideas to reality.
100+ thinkers and planners within MSLGROUP share and discuss inspiring projects on social data, crowdsourcing, storytelling and citizenship on the MSLGROUP Insights Network.
Every week, we pick up one project and do a deep dive into conversations around it -- on the MSLGROUP Insights Network itself but also on the broader social web -- to distill insights and foresights. We share these insights with you on our People’s Insights blog and compile the best insights from the network and the blog in the People’s Insights Quarterly Magazine, as a showcase of our capabilities.
We have further synthesized the insights to provide foresights for business leaders and changemakers — in the ten-part People’s Insights annual report titled Now & Next: Ten Frontiers for the Future of Engagement, now available as a Kindle eBook.
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This is the result of an extensive study on the users of dating apps like Tinder, OKCupid, Zoosk and others. We were studying how people use the apps, how they present themselves, and whether or not they feel successful. We conducted this study over the course of a month to gain design insights and directions.
This week, we distill insights around PlanBig - a platform created by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to connect changemakers and support them in bringing their ideas to reality.
100+ thinkers and planners within MSLGROUP share and discuss inspiring projects on social data, crowdsourcing, storytelling and citizenship on the MSLGROUP Insights Network.
Every week, we pick up one project and do a deep dive into conversations around it -- on the MSLGROUP Insights Network itself but also on the broader social web -- to distill insights and foresights. We share these insights with you on our People’s Insights blog and compile the best insights from the network and the blog in the People’s Insights Quarterly Magazine, as a showcase of our capabilities.
We have further synthesized the insights to provide foresights for business leaders and changemakers — in the ten-part People’s Insights annual report titled Now & Next: Ten Frontiers for the Future of Engagement, now available as a Kindle eBook.
For more, see: http://peopleslab.mslgroup.com/future-of-engagement
This is the result of an extensive study on the users of dating apps like Tinder, OKCupid, Zoosk and others. We were studying how people use the apps, how they present themselves, and whether or not they feel successful. We conducted this study over the course of a month to gain design insights and directions.
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Crowdfunding: The Future of Nonprofit FundraisingJulie Holt, CNP
The Internet is making it easier for donors to connect with meaningful social projects in their community and for local organizations to engage their supporters from all over. This poster presentation focuses on best practices in crowdfunding for nonprofits with an emphasis on examples of viral projects. The poster will look at past crowdfunding projects and evaluate its effectiveness. Best Practices will be identified and explored so nonprofits can utilize this new fundraising technique in the future.
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Why do you need a winning social media strategy?Techugo
A social media strategy is a plan for using social media platforms to achieve specific marketing and communication goals. It involves identifying the target audience, determining the key messages to be conveyed, and selecting the appropriate social media channels to reach the audience. A well-crafted social media strategy should take into account the unique features and algorithms of each social media platform, as well as the specific needs and interests of the target audience. A successful social media strategy requires consistent posting, engagement with followers, and the use of compelling content and visuals to attract and retain an audience. It also involves regularly analyzing and adjusting the strategy to ensure that it is effective and aligns with the overall goals of the business or organization.
A questionnaire for creators and producers of media content, with a special focus on documentary filmmaking. The aim is to help the reader gain a more thorough knowledge of a project with regards to reaching audiences, gaining visibility and encouraging engagement, also early on in the lifetime of a project.
A description of the structure and the processes of a community of projects in the Food System. We explored the creation of a co-working space to house some of the projects.
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Crowdfunding: The Future of Nonprofit FundraisingJulie Holt, CNP
The Internet is making it easier for donors to connect with meaningful social projects in their community and for local organizations to engage their supporters from all over. This poster presentation focuses on best practices in crowdfunding for nonprofits with an emphasis on examples of viral projects. The poster will look at past crowdfunding projects and evaluate its effectiveness. Best Practices will be identified and explored so nonprofits can utilize this new fundraising technique in the future.
Learn more about Automotive Digital Marketing at the most popular professional network for car dealers and interactive marketers working in the auto industry at http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/
Why do you need a winning social media strategy?Techugo
A social media strategy is a plan for using social media platforms to achieve specific marketing and communication goals. It involves identifying the target audience, determining the key messages to be conveyed, and selecting the appropriate social media channels to reach the audience. A well-crafted social media strategy should take into account the unique features and algorithms of each social media platform, as well as the specific needs and interests of the target audience. A successful social media strategy requires consistent posting, engagement with followers, and the use of compelling content and visuals to attract and retain an audience. It also involves regularly analyzing and adjusting the strategy to ensure that it is effective and aligns with the overall goals of the business or organization.
A questionnaire for creators and producers of media content, with a special focus on documentary filmmaking. The aim is to help the reader gain a more thorough knowledge of a project with regards to reaching audiences, gaining visibility and encouraging engagement, also early on in the lifetime of a project.
A description of the structure and the processes of a community of projects in the Food System. We explored the creation of a co-working space to house some of the projects.
A model, pioneered by Chris Cook, that aligns the interests of financiers with users and managers of an asset. One might think of this as a vision for a Collaborative Capital Structure!
A vision for a model that marries the benefits of incubation space with a systemic view of resource allocation with a view to solving the chronic underfunding of early stage social ventures.
On thestructureandprocessesofrevolution2.0 discussiondocumentSuresh Fernando
Considerations, learned both from experience and through the review of theoretical work, on the challenges and complexity of bringing different movements together 'across boundaries;
2. Open to the participation of different people that want to contribute value in different ways.
3. Crowdsourcing/Collective Intelligence: we are tapping into the wisdom of many different people with many different perspectives.Open architectures are the appropriate model for bringing the swarm together... for facilitating swarms that can come together and change the world!<br />This model is something that we need to think more about in the sense that we need to decide if we want to focus on just on matching on also supporting the collaboration process by helping to create open collaboration environments.<br />USER TYPES AND STORIES<br />Both individuals and projects could conceivably be participants in the system and it is not clear that a distinction needs to be made<br />INTENTIONAL: Individual wants to actively create an open project to help organize a conference in NY called Contact!<br />Venessa, one of the main organizers of Contact, wants to ensure that the conference in NY that she is attending in October is a success. In order to do this, she needs to ensure that several things happen: a strong list of participants attend the event, sponsorship for the event is located and good momentum leading up to the event is generated. This leads to the following series of questions...<br />What type of project do you want to create? EventWhat infrastructure do you want to manage your event?Wiki, Google Group, real time chat...Who are the project managers?Venessa, Doug..How often do you want to meet on SkypeWeekly<br />ANALYSIS: This is an example of a flow that can serve to help to set up infrastructure to manage open projects...<br />INTENTIONAL: Individual or Project actively seeking collaboration opportunity with another project(s) with aligned mission:<br />Suresh has been working for a couple of years, on and off, on a project called OpenKollab. He has worked with different people on the project and over the course of that time there have been some good ideas that have been developed but, for whatever reason, the project has not managed to really get off the ground.<br />Suresh feels that the OpenKollab mission... ‘connecting projects to solve massive social problems’, is a worthy mission and he feels that there have to be other projects that have similar objectives. His friend Tim mentioned that there is this site called ProM, that helps you to find projects that you might be able to partner with. He decides to give it a try... this leads to the following flow...<br />What is your projects mission statement?Connecting Projects To Solve Massive Social ProblemsWhat specific intentions do you have for this year?Develop and rollout Prom... etcWhat specific needs does your project have?Those with experience building software ... etcWhat can you offer other projects by way of exchange?Advice on managing open groups, business planning..<br />After inputting this information, ProM provides a list of Suggested Projects that have mission statements that are similar...<br />(it also provides the opportunity to filter by geography, size of organization, etc)<br />VISIBILITY: Individual/Project seeing interesting project while browsing ProM<br />John, a web developer, is taking a break while he eats his sandwich and decides to browse ProM this super cool website that is friend Mary told him about. Apparently it has something to do with dating, but not regular dating. He’s not really sure what this is all about but decides to check it out anyway.<br />On getting to the home page, he sees that it is apparently a ‘dating site for climate action projects!’... He sees that one of the button bars on the left hand side says: ‘Finding Cool Projects!’... with bated breath he hits the button... which leads him to the following<br />This leads to John joining the Google Group of a project called Climate Fighters. In joining this group he is made aware of an open Skype call next Wednesday at 10am pst. He decides that he will participate in the call to learn more about Climate Fighters.<br />INTENTIONAL: Project actively seeking resources<br />Dave works for a project called Climate Fighters, which has a mission statement that reads: ‘We will help to reduce net CO2 emissions in San Francisco to zero by 2030!’ Climate Fighters is a small group which does not have a lot of money, hence they have been struggling to upgrade their website.<br />His friends Jane has recently made him aware of a site called ProM which is an open collaboration infrastructure designed to connect projects and to support them in their efforts to collaborate. Since they don’t have the resources internally to fix the website, he decides to see if he can find a web developer that might be interested in supporting Climate Fighters in some way. This leads to ProM asking a series of questions...<br />VISIBILITY: Browsing Prom and seeing connection between individual and project she wants to facilitate<br />VISIBILITY: Browsing ProM and seeing connection between two projects that she wants to facilitate<br />