Archive for April, 2008
ABN Amro moves into p2p loans but misses the point
3 Comments Published by Carl Lens April 23rd, 2008 in NewsflashABN Amro started offering support for private loans. The bank is part of Fortis, the third largest bank in the world.
The bank takes a different angle than do crowdfunding/p2p loan sites, like zopa, prosper, the Dutch boober and many others. The site offers free loan contracts, a calculation tool for redemption schemes and offers paid […]
May 22nd: SocialStrategyTalk kicks off with Jeff Howe
0 Comments Published by Carl Lens April 22nd, 2008 in EventsMay 22nd will be the day our event SocialStrategyTalk kicks off with no one less than Jeff Howe: the inventor of Crowdsourcing.
SocialStrategyTalk will be a recurring event about organizations that are connecting to the people around and within them. The event will be the offline part of a discussion amongst people that are involved with […]
Enterprise2.0 spendings more external by 2009
2 Comments Published by Carl Lens April 21st, 2008 in Uncategorized, The how and what of CrowdSourcingA new report by Forrester teaches that companies’ budgets for web2.0 technologies will radically increase over the next five years. “This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and RSS, with the end result being a global enterprise market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013″ (source).
An interesting finding in the report […]
Our friends at ViNT have launched their latest book Me the Media. I haven’t read it yet but highly recommend to take a few minutes for their movie on Youtube. It is totaly made up of other Youtube movies and makes clear the vision on the evolution of media.
The guys at Kluster.com sure know how to keep people talking. The biggest tech blogs started talking about the community even before they went live and their launch on the TED conference got quite some coverage. Kluster keeps pace and launches Knewsroom.
What I understand from Mashables’ coverage is that Newsroom will be published daily with […]
Industrial Giants meet Local Motors
4 Comments Published by Carl Lens April 14th, 2008 in CrowdSourcing InitiativeAnother promising Crowdsourcing startup went public last week. US-based ‘Local Motors’ aims to make, sell and service cars in a totally new way.
In a process they call ‘Micro-factory retailing‘ Local Motors is putting up a network of local workshops that will produce and sell the cars that are co-created by the community. This decentralized way […]
The Company-Customer pact
0 Comments Published by Carl Lens April 10th, 2008 in Corporate Response, brand engagementThis one doesn’t need more words… Support it at ccpact.com.