Entries by Ross Dawson

Outsourcing journalism – how far can you take it?

Seed.com, AOL’s venture in crowdsourced journalism, has just sent out a survey to its contributors, with some very interesting questions, notes Business Insider. Source: Business Insider A few interesting thoughts coming out of the issues raised in the survey: * Seed.com is considering outsourcing fact-checking and copy-editing – given finding the right talent and quality […]

Information filtering and reputation will be evolutionary battlefields

When I wrote earlier Will our reputation systems be distributed? Probably not for a long time, a number of people noted that reputation systems will be gamed. Absolutely. The more valuable a system is, the more people will try to game it. If reputation systems influence who people buy from, who they date, who they […]

Creating competitive differentiation with Enterprise 2.0

Implementing Enterprise 2.0 effectively is extremely challenging, as many organizations have discovered. However that is precisely why succeeding can create real and lasting competitive differentiation. In fact I believe that the ability to use collaborative technologies to enhance organizational performance will be one of the most critical competences for companies in years to come. This […]