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I had the opportunity this past Monday to write a guest post for Chaordix (@chaordix), a highly-innovative crowdsourcing firm with some great people I’ve had the pleasure of communicating with, including @clintonbon @shelleykuipers and @superblue. In the article, I explored the idea of organizational crowdsourcing. An interesting comments discussion also emerged on the incentive structure of this model, specifically in corporate vs non-profit organizations and varying community sizes.

You can find the original guest post here. What are your thoughts about this idea, including the incentives we discussed in the comments on the Chaordix blog?

I hope you enjoy it.

I want to start this week (and this month) off with a dose of inspiration. Derek Silvers gave a brief but insightful talk on TED about challenging our assumptions and how the opposite may be equally true. I really like how his light demeanor and relevant examples easily demonstrates the far-reaching potential of this concept.

I certainly don’t want to make this out to be the one true event that challenges our world view and moves us into a new age of enlightenment. That would be silly. But I do think it’s message could open a few eyes in the fields many of us work in, such as design, marketing, innovation, sales and business.