Wednesday, January 27, 2010 #

Social Media Tools For Use In Innovation


For those of you on the lookout for various social media and/or collaborative innovation tools,  I've pulled together a comprehensive list of the various social media tools and platforms discussed during last week's Innochat - "Social Media In Innovation".

 

I've opted to group them by contributor so you can quickly see who to ping on Twitter should you want more information. (Wish I also could have grouped them by functionality, but I'm not familiar with them all.)

 

If you've used any of these or have heard comments about them, please share that info by leaving a reply.  And of course, please add to the list

 

If you haven’t joined us for Innochat, please do! Every Thursday at noon EST 30+ innovation practitioners get together for an hour to discuss best practices, tools, and timely topics. I’d recommend going to www.tweetchat.com, log in using your Twitter ID, and enter #innochat into the search field.

 

Hope to see you on Thursdays!

Gwen

Gwen_Ishmael




AndreaMeyer: @spigit 's idea market capabilities are very interesting & being tested by various Co's. Now an SMB version,too

AndreaMeyer: enterprise tools like @inventionmachin 's #Goldfire enable both #KM & SM

AndreaMeyer: I'd add wikis as way to manage the knowledge as well #KM

AndreaMeyer: InnovationSpigit by @spigit allows #sm for #innovation by voting on ideas, collab building, metrics

AndreaMeyer: wikis as tool to help build on & develop ideas

BlakeGroup: And more: IdeaNet Also: Bright Ideas + Kindling + Innocentive (TY @bpluskowski !)

BlakeGroup: So far: InnovationSpigit by @spigit + #goldfire by @inventionmachine + Idea Central from Imaginatik + storycapture.org

bpluskowski: #Spigit also has an interesting Idea market concept that attracts a lot of curiosity from companies I've spoken to

bpluskowski: @chuckfrey also has some good reviews on his website http://www.innovationtools.com

bpluskowski: many more out there too - Innocentive, Bright ideas, Kindling, and not even counting all the PLM vendors

ColetteCote: IdeaNet also allows 4 idea vetting, open voting & commenting on/adding new ideas.

ColetteCote: SM monitoring, a la Radian6, for ex.

ColetteCote: We use IdeaNet web-based sm platform 4 open & sponsored innovation challenges internally.

ColetteCote: Yammer is gr8t internal #sm platform 2 help drive #innovation globally/cross-org.

cwebpresence: …I'm not sure I would look at Wordpress as a secure collaborative platform for ongoing R&D.

cwebpresence: Ning should work quite well for closed team collab. It's has complete tool set including live chat room.

cwebpresence: P.S. .. I use Ning (BIG fan) .. and, re: Open Source tools.. well.. one needs some technical knowledge to maintain use thereof.

cwebpresence: With Ning one can have specific sub-groups for specific projects, categorized forum, full team member profiles, etc.

DawnEva: Check this out if you're looking for more feedback about Radian6, http://bit.ly/Feedback

DrewCM: …tools to dialogue/capture (Twitter, FB) and tools for KM (Ning, wikis, SharePoint, etc.)

Gwen_Ishmael: I also use Scout Labs - quite similar to Radian6, but less expensive

innovate: In addition to Radian 6 - Visible Technologies also makes #sm monitoring tools

JohnReaves: …Our tool (storycapture.org) also based on Drupal!

jpamental: …in a trial now with Cox for a 'super high speed' internet offering, with a closed Ning comm. for feedback

jpamental: Have worked on a prototype based in Drupal to foster innovation challenges w/submission, commenting, voting & added roles 4 (cont)

jpamental: that's the great thing with Drupal, others: can foster both KM and SM, and time the results together in 1 place

jpamental: Wide open: FB, LinkedIn, Twitter.Ning can be open or closed. Yammer (Twitter for enterprise)-internal

jpamental: Wikis and other CMS options (Drupal, etc) can be set up open or closed (i.e. registration required/approval, etc)

mneff: …we move the discussion into a focused collaboration event in Idea Central when ready (to begin analysis).

mneff: Search their name, their products, their services, see if they have a twitter name - see what they are tweeting about.

mneff: We use Idea Central from Imaginatik. Very useful for focused collaboration and business initiatives management.

rtkrum: We could setup a collaborative review of #sm tools and let people add pros & cons. Maybe using MindMeister or a Wiki

sourcepov: Online www is outbound published IP. Internal IP needs secure platform: Cubetree, Basecamp, etc

sourcepov: Free? You're in luck .. pbworks, ning, drupal, joomla, cubetree, etc .. of course, there's a people cost ..

sourcepov: How to use #sm to better understand our competition? - Many forget that you can just search Twitter!

sourcepov: I did a short list of my favorites in comments on Gwen's framing post http://ow.ly/Z0hK - Twitter, Tweetchat, Wordpress, PBworks, Basecamp, Cubetree, Socialtext

sourcepov: One thing I like about Wordpress as platform: All content exportable. Can change themes/skin. No lock-in. Low risk.

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