Today YouTube introduced collaborative annotations. Now you can give your friends the opportunity to write stuff that pops up throughout your video.
To enable collaborative annotations:
Internet Presents Collaborative Inauguration Speech
It’s too early to lock down the potential (or failures) of crowd-sourcing. Where Wikipedia, the 4th most visited resource on the Internet, logs incredible, meteoric success, and where the politicization inherent to mob rule has dragged down the populist ideals of Digg.com and others, the collaborative spirit continues to be tested and modified. In America, as on the Internet.
Collaborative GMail Promo Gets Around
Here’s the neat part about owning YouTube: you can get people to make your commercials for you a lot cheaper than it costs to pay an advertising agency to do it. The end result for Google is still a pretty cool commercial though, the collaborate effort of about 1,100 GMail fans.
Collaborative Information Security Next?
Have anyone ever been on the phone with a client after the job, where the client wants more information, needs a copy of the report, or just wants to spend some time discussing the implications of the report that the company generated for them?
A Collaborative Sales Model Changes the Seller’s Value
Some people believe that the job of the seller is to communicate and offer value, or to differentiate their offering so buyers know how to choose one product over another. I’ve also heard it said that the products themselves create value.
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment
Vendor Managed Inventory. Electronic Data Interchange. Online Inventory Management.
Collaborative Technologies Conference: Demo Pavilion
Just finishing up here for today. I’ve been wandering the Demo Pavilion area, chatting with the various vendors. There’s a nice reception sponsored by Intercall and Microsoft Office LiveMeeting.
Collaborative Working With Wikis
The Financial Times has an excellent report on why wikis are an effective collaborative tool for the workplace, quoting examples from three prominent companies …
The People Factor: Collaborative Decision-Making
Times are, um, interesting: companies are either stripping down to the bare necessities or recreating their business models so they can be ready for the future in new ways. In your company, you may be creating new strategic initiatives or hiring/firing/reorganizing staff. You might be adopting CRM technology or extending your current technology into other departments. You’re rebranding. You’re repositioning products.