Comments on: Ideagoras for us http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/31/ideagoras-for-us/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim McDonald http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/31/ideagoras-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-272953 Tim McDonald Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:14:55 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/31/ideagoras-for-us/#comment-272953 Interesting article.. Organisations generally have their best minds inside the company; however this concept of ideagoras opens up a whole new door. It provides all companies with an opportunity to access very clever minds and utilise this brain power for the company’s own benefit. Interesting article.. Organisations generally have their best minds inside the company; however this concept of ideagoras opens up a whole new door. It provides all companies with an opportunity to access very clever minds and utilise this brain power for the company’s own benefit.

]]> By: Aron Roberts http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/31/ideagoras-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-121785 Aron Roberts Wed, 14 May 2008 21:38:13 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/31/ideagoras-for-us/#comment-121785 There may be more than a few sites that allow consumers to describe projects, problems or needs, and solicit bids from "people who have ... solutions." For instance, HomeGain.com has been offering homeowners the ability to solicit detailed proposals for selling or buying homes from multiple realtors since at least 2001, when I last used their services to find a realtor in a remote city. Back then, I received about 10 proposals, including two from realtors who had taken considerable time to prepare detailed market analyses, and generally found the service very helpful. I don't know how the service has fared subsequently; these Amazon.com service reviews from more recent years tend towards unfavorable, although one can surmise from the comments that a number of these reviews were contributed by people who had not actually used the service. In addition to formal marketplaces, don't underestimate the value of social production of reviews for service providers. Yelp is one of the best known examples, but even a local site with non-commercial origins has also proven to be tremendously useful, at least for consumers in the San Francisco Bay Area: http://parents.berkeley.edu There may be more than a few sites that allow consumers to describe projects, problems or needs, and solicit bids from “people who have … solutions.”

For instance, HomeGain.com has been offering homeowners the ability to solicit detailed proposals for selling or buying homes from multiple realtors since at least 2001, when I last used their services to find a realtor in a remote city.

Back then, I received about 10 proposals, including two from realtors who had taken considerable time to prepare detailed market analyses, and generally found the service very helpful.

I don’t know how the service has fared subsequently; these Amazon.com service reviews from more recent years tend towards unfavorable, although one can surmise from the comments that a number of these reviews were contributed by people who had not actually used the service.

In addition to formal marketplaces, don’t underestimate the value of social production of reviews for service providers. Yelp is one of the best known examples, but even a local site with non-commercial origins has also proven to be tremendously useful, at least for consumers in the San Francisco Bay Area:

http://parents.berkeley.edu

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