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Are brands making the most of social? PDMA PIM 2012 Primer
On Wednesday, I will be speaking at the PDMA (Product Development Management Association) Product Innovation Conference in Orlando. The topic of the talk will be managing risk in social product...
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Managing Risk in Social Product Development
Today I delivered a keynote at the PDMA (Product Development Managers Association) Product Innovation Management Conference in Orlando. The talk was focused on managing risk when considering and using...
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Ideavibes Announces Startup Dream Team for Relaunch
New team along with recent investment by Mercury Grove to help Ideavibes become the market leader in making crowdsourcing the go-to tool for driving innovation and change. Ottawa, ON – November 6,...
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The CRTC and Innovating a New Wireless Code – Almost Right
Starting tomorrow (Nov 13/2012), the CRTC – Canada’s broadcast and telecommunications regulator, is launching an Online Consultation to help develop a ‘Wireless Code’ for Canada. The goal of the...
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Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding for Engineers
Monday evening I had the chance to join the University of Ottawa Engineering Entrepreneurship and Computer Science Graduate Students Clubs to talk about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. The students are...
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Ideavibes Helps Community Housing Capital Launch Crowdfunding Initiative
A couple months ago, Ideavibes responded to a call from Community Housing Capital to help them find a solution to the cuts to affordable housing programs in the United States. Working with the Federal...
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Hail to the Innovators @ City of Ottawa
I mean it. Kudos to the City of Ottawa for giving us the opportunity to help them build a truly innovative way to engage citizens and give them the opportunity to get more involved. The campaign is now...
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Do Governments in Canada Engage with Citizens Enough?
Recently I spoke at the Social Media and the Public Sector event in Ottawa and was heartened by the desire of our public sector to more regularly utilize social media and online engagement tools such...
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Ideavibes Announces Wrap-up of Fundchange
Today, we announced that we are wrapping up our Fundchange initiative on December 9th.. This was a difficult decision but was born out of practicality – tough choices need to be made in the evolution...
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Crowdfunding in Canada – Lessons Learned on Wrap of Fundchange
As previously announced, we have wrapped up Fundchange and will be focusing on our crowdsourcing platform which is soon to be relaunched. I thought it might be helpful for other Canadian start-ups...
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Crowdsourcing Success for Ottawa Public Library
Who says libraries are dead. Today we took down the crowdsourcing campaign we developed and ran for the Ottawa Public Library called Imagine. You can still visit the website,...
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Canada Council using Crowdsourcing to Engage Inter-Arts Community
For the past few weeks, the Canada Council for the Arts has been runningan ambitious consultation effort that combines online and public meetings with submissions to answer a critical question about...
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Crowdsourcing ‘What’s Next’ for Ideavibes…
Its mid March and after a long winter, I am now trying to decide what to do next with Ideavibes. To answer this question, I thought the obvious first step was to reach out to the crowd for their input....
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Ideavibes joins Ideascale
On April 24th, we made the big announcement that Ideascale had acquired Ideavibes as part of their global expansion. It has been quite a ride since late 2010 when I brought a few friends and family...
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Ideascale for the Ideavibes Crowd : Webinar : May 28th at 1:00pm EST
So what’s Ideascale all about? What’s in it for Ideavibes’ Customers? Many of the features that you, our customers and contacts, have been asking for, are built into the Ideascale platform and I can’t...
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