Get Happy!
It’s Friday, the whole weekend is ahead. What’s not to be happy about? But what can you do to hold on to that Friday feeling the whole week through? Action For Happiness have developed 10 Keys to Happier Living. And if you take a look at the picture on this post, you’ll see that they [...]
NGOs, Non-Profits & Organisations – What openideas Can Do For You!
The Challenges NGOs and non-profits face a great many challenges! But how to communicate to the public and to keep them engaged, has to be among the top. Also, NGOs face the same challenges as other businesses, like nurturing the latent potential within their internal talent-base. NGOs can have multi-tiered communication structures, in which it [...]
Governments & Community Groups – Here’s How openideas Can Help You
Challenges Your mission is to serve the community in the best way available to you. In times of low political and community participation, it’s a challenge to engage people so they feel involved enough in issues, and to convince them that there are really people listening to them. Solution Bring the public into the process! [...]
Deutsche Post have the right idea…
openideas was interested to discover that Deutsche Post (DP) has had an idea management system for its employees for over ten years. While it’s clear that DP place idea management under the corporate responsibility umbrella, they are quick to talk about the mutual benefits for both the company and its employees. We empower our employees to contribute [...]
The Power of the Crowd Challenges the Politics of Misinformation
There’s been a lot in the news lately about safecast.org, the crowdsourcing site that was set up to “provide additional context to the official statements”* about radiation levels across Japan, following the earthquake and subsequent nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant. “The (official) information was just kind of unreliable, not updated frequently, no way to [...]
Crowdsourcing Graffiti -The writing’s on the wall (but not for long)
I almost dropped my spray can when i found out about a crowdsourcing website in Australia called Vandaltrak.com.au The site calls for members of the community to report graffiti incidents by submitting photos. Therefore, even after the graffiti has been cleaned away, there is still a record of evidence against the artiste should they be [...]
R.I.P suggestion box
After years of abuse and being misunderstood, it’s time to lay the dusty suggestion box to rest. It gave it a good shot, but the odds were stacked against it from the start… The problem is the same whether we are talking about the traditional cardboard variety (complete with obligatory smiley cut-out hole), or the [...]
First places taken. So we’re offering 200 more tester spots!
Sign up quick to get your invitation! Openideas.biz has had a great couple of weeks. We launched the beta version and sent out the first user invites to those who had already signed up to be testers. Then we nervously twiddled our ponytails hoping that people would come to our beta party and test all [...]
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