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This year's Congres Intranet starts with two masterclasses . The first masterclass is about the potential of internal crowdsourcing by Ross Dawson . Here are my notes. Ross starts out by point to the Wikipedia definition  of crowdsourcing, but disagree with the "open call" part. It's not limited to 'open calls'. His definition of crowdsourcing: tapping the mind of many. And there's a huge number of crowdsourcing initiatives and platforms. There are two big constraints to external crowdsourcing. It's intellectual property and context. There are different types of closed crowds, e.g.: employees customers The big difference between open and closed crowds is it's important to have a good reason to have a closed crowd. People that you want you to join the closed community need good reasons to join as well. What are the steps to succes w.r.t. internal crowdsourcing? objectives - why? Access better ideas? Tap existing talent? Engage st...

A while back I read Wikinomics , by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. I really enjoyed it. So when they published a new book, Macrowikinomics. Rebooting Business and the World , I was curious, bought and read it. The book Wikinomics was about the power of mass collaboration for business. But this new model of collaboration goes beyond a business or technology trend. It's a "more encompassing societal shift". So, this new book wants to show how wikinomics and its core principles can be applied to society and all of its institutions. Principles What are the wikinomics principles? The 6 principles summarized for you with a quote. Collaboration - "... the collective knowledge, capability, and resources embodied within broad horizontal networks of participants can accomplish much more than one organization or one individual can acting alone. Of course, hierarchies won't disappear from the economy in the foreseeable future. Nor are we likely to see large top-...

Prediction Markets have intrigued me for some time now. I've been reading about them in books such as 'The Wisdom of Crowds' and 'We are Smarter than Me' and 'Wikinomics' . The examples they give are inspiring. But still I find the number of examples, also on the Internet, quite limited. And I think I understand why now. I'll explain why below. But first something great happened to me some time ago. For one I joined the 2.0 Adoption Council . Which is a great group of enterprise 2.0 practitioners and enthusiasts. It simply is a group of people in this area that want to learn from each other. And then recently the 2.0 Adoption Council set up a Prediction Market. Ah, this is great, I thought, it would give me the chance to experience a Prediction Markt in practice. So I jumped in! This prediction market was focused on Enterprise 2.0 business and technology. Several statements in this area were put up and the market kicked off. Every participant go...