It’s been a very active spring this year in the social media industry as well as for businesses. The winter that gripped the nation for the while it did has finally come to a close, and here we are: Mid-April. With the exception of a few rainstorms and snow flurries around the country, things are…
“Gamification is every bit at important as social media,” IBM’s Serious Games Manager Phaedra Boinodiris said this morning at Triangle Startup Factory. “I worry about the Trough of Disillusionment because gamification is about more than badges,” Phaedra continued. The fear is gamification is over hyped. Hype creates the illusion of simplicity. When gamifying a business…
What is a Question Circle? In an age where so many new businesses flood each new niche to an extent far greater than the market can possibly sustain, it is more important than ever to stand out from the crowd in a unique manner. I believe Question Circles provide one such means of achieving distinctiveness.…
In my last article we talked all about visual storytelling — why it’s important for your business, how to think about it so it will work for you, and then I shared examples of companies doing visual storytelling really well — and being successful as a result. Yahoo! At the end, I promised that my…
Whereas the title of this post is borrowed unashamedly from a superb Mighty Mighty Bosstones album, the concept came from Greg Satelli (Digital Tonto) in his thought provoking 2010 post, The Stupidity Of Crowds. He was talking about how the greatest success is for those who buck trends as opposed to following them. How true…
Great Content Curators Needed Working with Jan and Curatti’s amazing “Editors of Chaos” convinced us – CrowdFunde needs great content curators. CrowdFunde is our Durham, NC based startup being “accelerated” at Triangle Startup Factory. CrowdFunde’s mission is simple – help websites, brands and companies tap wisdom of crowds so commerce and content can help one…
This is a light-hearted follow-up to my article, How Do We Find Our Way Out Of The Content Echo Chamber? This time, the simple goal is to get you to think about who ’everybody’ is, as in, the everybody who knows almost everything about almost everything that we content writers purvey. Did you know that…
For Business Big And Small, Big Data Is A Big Deal Did you know that 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past 2 years? Moreover, every minute on the internet there are more than 2,000,000 Google searches, 685,000 Facebook updates, 200 million sent emails and 48 hours worth of video uploaded to…
World Is Upside Down The world is upside down and SoLoMo is to blame. SoLoMo stands for Social, Local and Mobile and the combination of these power trends is leveling the karma of many traditional brands. This Curatti post examines 5 Ways SoLoMo disrupts customer loyalty for car makers and dealers. Least you think its…
Surveys! More and more people in Social Media are doing them! The idea behind this is flawless. We want to serve our customers by better understanding their needs, so why not ask them! We did two for Curatti, the second of which, on Social Media Analytics, was with a view to a third. Well that…
