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The “Open” in Open Innovation Doesn’t Happen by Accident

We’ve been talking to you quite a bit recently about communication – and our desire to share and be more open with you, and hopefully to encourage you to tell us about yourselves.  As part of this initiative, I wanted to let you know about a few more things we’ve been working on.

We announced recently that we’ve added RSS feeds to our site.  This is something that may seem a long time in coming, but we wanted to ensure that they were really going to be useful – and as customizable as you might want them to be.  We hope that the options we’ve provided will allow you to keep up on only the things that are most interesting to you, including Challenges of a specific type, all open Challenges, or the latest news on our blog.

We’ve launched a new discussion board, specifically for the IAVI Challenge.  Click the “talk” bubble to access this area.  We’re working on making discussion boards much more widely available – look for more of these in the near future.

Finally, in a move that had some of my colleagues scratching their heads, I’ve decided to provide you with more information than ever about the inner workings at InnoCentive – starting with a glance at Solver demographics.  We talk quite often about the diversity of our marketplace, and I feel strongly that we have built a community that is unparalleled in this respect.  I’m proud to be able to back this statement up with some real data.  In the future, I plan to share even more of this type of information, and would be interested in hearing from you about what you’d most like to learn.

Stay tuned for more on this front, and please let us know what you think – how are we doing?

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  • http://arlindolopescorrea.blogspot.com arlindo lopes correa

    When I joined Innocentive community I was thinking in innovation latu sensu (broader sense). Because I thought you would work not only in technological projects but also in social projects, my field of activity. The crisis is increasing impoverishment. If solutions to social problems are needed maybe Innocentive could engage in this new field…

  • http://www.innocentive.com Dwayne Spradlin

    Thanks for the message. We DO believe that there is a global social agenda that demands attention and are already running many challenges to assist foundations and not for profits to address global needs and are looking for many more – but we are only scratching the surface . Like the commercial space, change can be very slow in the philanthropic arena. We need globally minded people like yourself all over the world demanding a new way of thinking to ensure this approach drive real impact. From my point of view, every day we delay is one more day someone somewhere is deprived the merits of innovative solutions to improve their lives. We’re all on the same team. Help us get the word out.