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CL!CK!

Take a look at Lego Click to see how the Cl!ck community is transforming lego. Author Laura M. Carillo outlines some of the quick thinking that enabled the success of this platform in the article “CL!CK – LEGO’s fun social … Continue reading

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Squishable Puts Customers At The Centre Of Product Development

Your business’ social media community can be an invaluable asset when working through product or service development. At Squishable.com, a stuffed animal maker in NYC, they’ve used Facebook as a research and consultation tool to help inform product development.   … Continue reading

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IdeaStorm at Dell

The relationship between business and consumers is in the midst of drastic change. The traditional business model of pushing products out to the public, is quickly being replaced by a new model that involves consumers pulling their desired products from … Continue reading

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Ben & Jerry’s Asks You to Do The World A Flavor

Over the past couple of years, it is has been pretty clear that we have been witnessing some major shifts in the ways that businesses are operating. Digital and social media have come to play key roles in core marketing … Continue reading

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Heineken’s Ideas Brewery Taps into Customer Innovations

Today’s consumers do just that – we consume.  We have more choice than ever before, both locally and abroad, and we want to get our hands on the latest and greatest products. It’s this “out with the old, in with … Continue reading

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Do Us a Flavour and Win $50,000

What do you get when you cross Canadians with potato chips and add money? Lay’s is banking on it creating the next great chip flavour. The Lay’s® Canada Do Us A Flavour™ Contest premise is that consumers submit a new … Continue reading

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Crowd Sourcing: A Quirky new path for Entrepreneurs

We have all had that great idea for a product or a service that will revolutionize our world but 99.9% of us don’t do anything about it. In the past the reason so many of these ideas wouldn’t develop is … Continue reading

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Samuel Adams Taps Social Networks to Create a New Brew

Samuel Adams has been giving consumers an opportunity to create their own brew for years with contest like the Samuel Adams Longshot American Homebrew Contest. This year Zack Adams’ Magnificent Seven and James Schirmer’s Beerflower Wheat triumphed over nearly 1,000 … Continue reading

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Taco Bell Launches Doritos Locos Tacos Using Integrated Social Media Campaign

Taco Bell partnered with Doritos to launch a new product Doritos Locos Tacos – a hard shelled taco made of Nacho Cheese Doritos Chips. Taco Bell determined that “80-90% of Taco Bell-related conversations were taking place on Twitter” they used … Continue reading

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The Social Media Revolutionists vs. the Anti-Revolutionists

The battle line is drawn. Everyone in business should be involved in social media. The statistics in the two video links below are staggering:

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customer relations of the social media kind

One of the many areas that social media has the ability to enhance is customer relations and/or customer engagement. As in other areas of social media, this can manifest itself in a number of ways. Social media can facilitate the … Continue reading

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Precyse Technologies Turns to ‘Crowdsourcing’ for a Technology Solution Providing Solid ROI

Organisation Name: Precyse Technologies Industry: Entity Awareness Solutions (delivering real-time actionable insight to decision makers – allowing customers to effectively manage their strategic physical and human assets). Name of contact if available: Rom Eizenberg, co-founder and CMO of Precyse Web … Continue reading

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Diamond Candles

Title of Post: Getting real time analysis of which future candle scents customers would be most likely to favor. Organisation Name:  Diamond Candles Industry:  Retail Sales Web references: http://scents.diamondcandles.com/ http://youtu.be/cvCTx0ebOZ4 Description of how social media is used for business performance: … Continue reading

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General Electric

Title of Post: Leveraging knowledge and ideas beyond the company walls to develop new power grid technologies. Organisation Name:  General Electric Industry:  Utilities Name of contact if available: Web references: http://www.ecomagination.com/ Description of how social media is used for business … Continue reading

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Madison Electric Products

Title of Post: Developing products that solve problems, meet a need or increase efficiencies, without breaking the bank through research and development. Organisation Name:  Madison Electric Products Industry:  Electrical Manufacturing Name of contact if available: Rob Fisher, Director of Marketing … Continue reading

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