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This is a blog post by Drea Knufken. Image: Wayne Large/Flickr Want something done quickly and well? Sic the swarm on it. Crowdsourcing, which involves a community of anonymous people completing a given task, has become an attractive labor model. Everyone’s seeking it out, from solopreneurs needing transcriptions to Fortune 500 companies looking for answers […]
Travel through 26 states. 15,089 Twitter followers. 9,726 Facebook fans. Dozens of major business goals knocked off. That’s what the 10 finalists in the Fairfield Small Business Road to Success Challenge accomplished during the three months of the contest. But only one small business could take the $20,000 cake, and that was ecycler, the recycling […]
Want to win on Facebook? Command your niche, hire interns to put in some serious social media hours, and give away something you normally charge for. That was Tim Ericson’s strategy. And Tim, the CEO of CityRyde, has nearly 4,300 fans* and a Fairfield Small Business Challenge Facebook contest win–he gained the most followers in […]
Do you tweet? Odds are, your answer to this question is yes. The real question is “do you tweet well“? Do you engage your followers, find new leads and clients using Twitter, and have a solid reputation on the medium? That second question is harder to say yes to. But Brian Searl, who won the […]
Kenneth Cole just made it into the PR hall of shame with this tweet: @KennethCole: Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://www.bit.ly/KCairo -KC Econsultancy has more on Cole’s “hastag hijack”: If you cast your mind back you may remember that Habitat pulled […]
Image: Digital Shotgun/Flickr This is a guest post by Mary Lamia, Ph.D. Your emotional system can give you an advantage in your decision-making if you make proper use of it. Your emotions will drive the decisions you make today, and your success may depend upon your ability to understand and interpret them. Many people think […]
Know your fellow man and you’ll know business. Know your own mind and you’ll know your fellow man. Catching up on how science sees our minds can benefit you socially, personally, and in the workplace. Here are 50 neuroscience links that will amp up your business circuitry. Skills You can use neuroscience and neuropsychology to […]
For being at the top of the food chain, humans aren’t terribly evolved. Give us a complex situation like, say, a credit meltdown with a zero accountability, and we drape a TARP and hope it will just go away. Individual humans just aren’t good at making hard decisions in complicated situations. That said, a smart, […]
Found this apt comic in the Christian Science Monitor:
A hedge fund has created a trading model that lets investors gauge the stock market’s mode via Twitter. Bloomberg has the story: The Derwent Absolute Return Fund Ltd., set to start trading in February with an initial 25 million pounds ($39 million) under management, will follow posts on the social-networking website. A trading model will […]
Keepio: Easily track what you own and share, buy, and sell with trusted friends from Keepio on Vimeo. Buying and selling stuff online hasn’t reached Web 2.0 yet. While we ingest news and friend updates in real-time, we still have to trust strangers that strangers will pay for the stuff we sell them. Through feeds […]
Image: The Italian Voice/Flickr ‘Tis the season of giving, especially to those who gave to you during the year. That is to say, clients. Personally, I would rather give a gift someone delights in, not something they will absentmindedly stick in a desk drawer. But this giving philosophy brings up the delicate matter of expenses. […]
