Posts in chronological order with tag community building

Quit marketing now tip #1: default to personal communication

by Chris Grams August 3, 2010

Ah, poor marketing.
It has definitely been a rough patch for marketing the last few years. From those predicting that [fashionable term X] is the “new” marketing (social media! engagement! community-building! customer experience! design! communications!) to those predicting its outright demise, there are a lot of people looking past marketing to whatever comes [...]

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Which is better: efficient markets or efficient communities?

by Chris Grams April 19, 2010

In my post last week, I talked about what I see as inefficiencies in the system design of many crowdsourcing projects. Today, I thought I’d stick with the inefficiency theme after reading a blog by Umair Haque entitled The Efficient Community Hypothesis (thanks to Rebecca Fernandez for pointing it out).
In this post, Haque makes the [...]

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Georgia Tech Launches Center for Innovation in Local Government

by Annie Godwin November 10, 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology recently launched the Center for Innovation in Local Government, a research center focused on improving the methods and processes of governing and better meeting the needs of citizens. New Kind is proud to collaborate with the Center through Art Seavey, contributing as a Research Associate.
Through the perspective of community governance, communications [...]

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