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Articles, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Digital people are the world’s best innovators

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:17 am on March 18, 2011

I’m not trying to discount the capabilities of industrial designers, researchers, or architects who’ve found their way into the innovation space, but the qualities of digital innovators put them in a unique position to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

Idea Couture has its roots in digital innovation. Frog, Adaptive Path, my good friends at Normative Design, and many other leading innovation firms also have amazingly strong foundations in the digital world. Three years ago, I left the interactive industry to pursue innovation consulting, and while...

Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design, Social Media, Uncategorized

48 Hours. 1,236 Service Designers. 60 Locations. 203 Service Design Concepts.

Posted by: Nicole Chen, at 3:10 pm on March 16, 2011

48 hours. 1,236 service designers. 60 locations. 203 service design concepts. Mix these all up and what do you get? An global event demonstrating what immense creativity, collaboration, innovation, and an aggressive time crunch can produce — Global Service Jam 2011! Participants from San Paulo,...

Articles, CSR, Experience Design, Social Change, Social Media, sustainability

In Defense of Voting Platforms

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:26 pm on January 26, 2011

Vote now has become is the new charity call to action. But cause voting competitions are not without their critics.

It’s hard to dispute that voting platforms have quickly become one of the most popular tools in the cause marketing playbook. As with any new marketing method, these platforms have been a lightning rod for criticism. This week alone, I’ve had several healthy debates with thought leaders...

Articles, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Featured Articles, Social Media, Technology, Web

Information Overload and the Great Purge of 2011

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 4:13 pm on December 27, 2010

More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.

There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...

Art and Culture, Articles, CSR, Social Change, Social Media, sustainability

What happens when the contest is over?

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 4:15 am on October 25, 2010

What’s the role of government in the crowdsourcing cause competition model?

Community idea competitions are a new way of life online. From the Aviva Community Fund to Pepsi Refresh to Member’s Project, there’s a recognition that the model of corporate funding + citizen activism is a winning formula for creating impact on both brand and world. But one of the questions...

Social Change, Social Media, sustainability, Technology, Web

Karma is a B*tch

Posted by: ltse, at 1:07 pm on June 3, 2010

Consumers are smarter than ever- in fact, most consumers today would agree that when they go shopping, they want to know more about the companies they are buying from. From food to clothes to cars, the ever-expanding socially responsible shoppers want to know if the companies they are buying from...

Articles, Experience Design, Organizational Design, Social Change, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:15 am on April 27, 2010

Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization’s innovation process.

Innovation used to be referred to be a virtuous and closed cycle. Spend money on research, develop a new big idea, create a new product, reap the benefits, and do it all over again. These days, the model of closed innovation has cracked. A workforce with less organizational loyalty, faster time to market,...

Articles, Social Media, Technology, Web

Hopes and Fears from eMetrics Toronto

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 6:17 am on April 7, 2010

The digital measurement industry is in flux. From April 7th – April 10th, I’ll be attending and speaking at the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference in Toronto, hopefully finding clarity through interacting with the world’s best and brightest digital measurement practitioners.

From April 7th – April 10th, I’ll be attending and speaking at the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference in Toronto. These are my thoughts, feelings, and (hopefully) epiphanies from interacting with the world’s best and brightest in the world of digital measurement. WEDNESDAY...

Articles, Business Models, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Social Media, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Uncategorized, Web

Search. Chat. Email. Facebook?

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 9:00 am on February 9, 2010

So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users...

Social Media

How to avoid the Facebook / Twitter Addiction Disorder (FTAD) Pandemic?

Posted by: Idris Mootee, at 7:55 am on November 9, 2009

A growing body of research in the area of addiction suggests that Social Media Addiction Disorder is becoming a real problem, it is a psychophysiological disorder involving tolerance; withdrawal symptoms; affective disturbances; and interruption of social relationships. The most common one is Facebook...