Today I want to try out an experiment together with you, the reader of our blog. We know crowd knowledge gathering on social platforms on the internet such as Wikipedia. But how about social content publishing outside of an academical realm?
Let’s try out how that would look like here on TechAcute in collaboration with all you TechAcuties out there. This is your chance to contribute to an article without the need of hosting your own blog or writing a whole guest article on your own.
I will draft out 3 different crowd-sourced subjects in this post and you can just add your contribution by adding a comment below the post. Please be so kind and also drop your name and Twitter handle along with your addition, so you can be credited properly.
1. A Million Tips for Starting a Business
Prepare a business plan and operations model very early and update frequently. Worship the numbers and measure your progress!
– Christopher Isak
Don’t worry about knowing all the answers before you start – just start! Once you take action, you’ll learn through experience as you work your way through the process.
– Diana Adams
To begin a business you will need to research your market and audience. Have a business plan with short term and long term goals. Investigate and finalize how you will fund your business. Seek advice from mentors to help you along the way.
– Cindy Millet
If you have a vision and an idea start. Let your passion drive your goals and let the details fall into place either by finding those that can help you or by slowly refining your goals to fit with reality. Also find a mentor.
– Mordecai Holtz
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– Your name
2. A Million Tips to Succeed on Social Media
Share interesting content and don’t just pitch your own services / products. Engage with people and companies and actually be ‘social’ about what you do.
– Christopher Isak
To succeed on social – engage, be authentic, and avoid being one-dimensional.
– Adam Litzenberger
Engage, provide value and contribute to the social media community in a genuinely helpful way. Become a leader in your niche. It isn’t about what you like – it’s about what your audience craves. Remember that and you’ll become a content curating master.
– Diana Adams
To succeed on social media you need to listen, connect, engage, and be gracious with acknowledgments. Be your genuine and authentic self. Engage in chats to form relationships. Connect with Influencers that you can learn from.
– Cindy Millet
Listen, engage, be real, don’t sell, offer value and insight. Find a balance between being always on and just lurking. Find 1-2 platforms and own them.
– Mordecai Holtz
Social success, I think…be helpful and relevant to who would like to engage with…and keep trying and learning even if it is a bit scary. That’s my personal approach.
– Diane Deverey
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– Your name
3. A Million Tips to Be Innovative
Don’t think about the innovation. Think about the problem and then try to solve it in the smartest way you can think of.
– Christopher Isak
Look beyond what you know something to be and experiment.
– Mike Bambrick
One of the best ways to be innovative is to empty out everything in your head so you have room for fresh thinking.
– Bob Rothman
Allow yourself to see new uses, purposes, and functions to fulfill a need. Then, allow yourself to be wrong.
– Harlan Spiva
Being innovative is like being creative – when it strikes, it’s a magical feeling. Become childlike in your thinking. Consider things that most people would laugh at. In the innovative world, anything is possible. Escape your own reality and don’t worry about making mistakes. Get out of your comfort zone. Just because an idea seems crazy – it doesn’t mean it’s not good!
– Diana Adams
Innovation doesn’t mean finding the next unicorn startup. It means taking a process and finding a better way to do it and seeing if you can work with others to make it better. innovation should come from within and should feel natural.
– Mordecai Holtz
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– Your name
These subjects will each receive their own post when we have reached a fair amount of contributions. The collaboration can be still carried out in the separated articles at a later stage though. I bet this will have a very interesting result. I strongly believe that many people with many experiences and different views can collaborate and create amazing things!
Just to make sure everything stays nice and tidy we also get some help from independent judges who will make sure nothing bad or misleading will end up in this collection of tips. Thanks to Marsha Collier, Diana Adams and Silvia Spiva for helping out with this. 🙂
Last update: 23.09.2015
Photo credit: The Difference
