Erica Glasier: Oversocialized! » Blog Archive » Social Silos Series: How does Siloam Mission do it? Part four in the Social Silo Series (check out part one , part two and part three ) seeks to help new social media managers and other online communications staff become the company 411 hotline . {*style:<b>, Communications Coordinator, Siloam Mission Employees: 48, Volunteers: 5,008 Trick: Journalism </b>*} “ We try to accomplish two things with our social media: 1) surrounding homelessness and domestic poverty, and 2) about what exactly happens within our four walls.
To achieve the latter, at Siloam Mission on our social media streams. We also to discuss what’s going on that day and encourage each other. Not everyone attends these meetings, so most often I end up : running around the building a once a week to find out what’s going on in their departments, people who use our services just with people in each department. It helps to and the people working and volunteering there – are still the best way to stay in tune with what happens in the organization. Next Economy @fer_ananda. Importance of Architectural innovation for business model innovation.
Architectural innovations are often what customers do not see immediately but there are core of any good strategy. While in the last years we saw a trend toward concentration on core activities like marketing and branding, some companies take the opposite route. And that is good. I was recently in Egypt to give a workshop on business model innovation. I received an invitation from the Executive Institute, a young and upcoming executive education institute based in Cairo. I was absolutely intrigued by the participants and their entrepreneurial drive. We can all learn from them in the so-called developed countries since they are true entrepreneurs and risk-takers.
Concentrate on the core The traditional view on the value chain is to concentrate on the core activities. This architectural or operational model looks very convincing since the story line “Concentrate on the core” sounds very plausible. The perils of the “core” Backwards Integration: You can do the opposite as well Lessons-learned.
Beliefs - Atheists and Humanists Meet in Los Angeles and Debate Future. Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices. Can We Crowdfund Our Lives? What do a chipped tooth, a world record and the relocation of a popular café in downtown Oakland all have in common? Each needed money to achieve a goal and, rather than going the usual routes of taking out loans or operating on credit, each found funding through crowd funding. At a panel at Social Media Week in San Francisco today, The Next Web's Hermione Way led a discussion on the new, age-old form of financing that's become uniquely possible with the advent of social media. Attending the panel were Jeffery Self, Tammy Camp and Cortt Dunlap, each with an interesting tale of how they used crowd funding to achieve their goals. Self said he raised $3,400 total in just three days to help pay off an emergency root canal and surgery for a chipped tooth that resulted from a misplaced head-butt.
Camp, an entrepreneur and kiteboarder, related her 48 hour funding of a kiteboarding world record in the Dominican Republic. How was this all achieved? "Crowd funding is nothing new. Micropatronage Sweet Spot: The micro-price of micropatronage. The Crowdfunding Revolution | Social Networking Meets Venture Financing.