How technology enables companies to connect with customers
The longest graphic in the history of my career is embedded below, some mobile devices may not properly render. As the Crowd Economy Rises, Brands Seek to Collaborate We’ve been tracking corporations in the Collaborative Economy, and released version 1.0 in April, 2014. Now, as we … Continue readingTimeline: Corporations in the Collaborative Economy (Ver 2, Oct 2014)
The crowd is bypassing traditional companies by sharing goods, services, space, and money with each other in the Sharing Economy. People are being empowered to build their own goods in the Maker Movement by crowd funding, tapping global marketplaces, and preparing to accelerate this with … Continue readingWhat It Means to Business When the Crowd Becomes a Company
(Above pic: Thousands of HK protesters link their phones together using Bluetooth to become their own internet –overcoming the government ban on social media sites. Photo credit: Alex Hofford) If you thought peer-to-peer-based Uber, Airbnb, Lyft and Lending Club were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet. … Continue readingFirechat Enables the Crowd to Become the Internet –Bypassing Central Powers
See the original Honeycomb graphic, which spurred this “Day in the life” graphic. Data shows collaboration in the new economy is accelerating. People are crowdfunding, making, sharing, collaborating, all kinds of their things in life. Some are getting food on-demand, rather than going to traditional … Continue readingInfographic: A Day in the Life of the Collaborative Economy
(Above: Read the full article in the SF Chronicle, and, please, read the comments. There’s no mercy for the taxi industry from former customers. Here are my recommendations to the taxi industry to lead this movement not fight it) The Collaborative Economy is a crowd commerce revolution. People … Continue readingDisruption from the Collaborative Economy
Investors are doling out money by the fistful, $241 million deployed in less than three months. See the Google Sheet that has all this data, broken down by industry, amount, and date. You can read part 1: Meet the investors, and part 2: The investors … Continue readingEven More Money Funnels into the Collaborative Economy (Part 3)
This was originally posted on VentureBeat, with a wide array of comments and reactions. Silicon Valley has been espousing sharing, making, community through the latest startups like Lyft, Airbnb, LendingClub and more. Yet is Silicon Valley really leading the example? While generalizations can put people … Continue readingHere’s what Silicon Valley can learn from good old Midwestern values
Photo :”Conversation” by Steve Bridger, used with Creative Commons license. Buzzwords, buzzwords, buzzwords! Nothing is more fun than using buzzwords except one thing: Reading all the buzzwords on a single page. Impress your colleagues at the co-working spot, your tatted Lyft drivers, and your hot … Continue readingA Glossary of Emerging Terms in the Collaborative Economy
Icebucket Challenge: Cold Facts and Stats #icebucketchallenge from Jeremiah Owyang Crowd-based business models and marketing are no stranger to the Web Strategy blog –and now we’re seeing the same effect impact non profits, including the much discussed (and debated) ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I was … Continue readingSlides: Cold Hard Facts on the Ice Bucket Challenge #IceBucketChallenge
The Collaborative Economy continues to mainstream with at least two of the key players launching APIs; this spells significant ecosystem change that will impact commerce, this post will attempt to answer what it means to the greater ecosystem. [This is as significant as … Continue readingThe Collaborative Economy APIs Mean Changes to Commerce
