So the idea submission and voting part of our crowd-sourcing experiment has been over for a few days. We have a few more stages to get through before we’re done, (re-posting the Emerging Media job, interviewing and hiring among other things) but wanted to get an update out especially for those who participated in submitting ideas, or participated in the conversation. There will yet be more updates to be posted here on this topic and more opportunity for commentary and conversation. My team helped me put this together as there was a lot of time involved in gathering up the links and getting them placed in the post.
Bob Roth (blogging at bigbadbobby.blogspot or @Zamees on Twitter) was officially the top vote getter as of the time voting was officially closed last Thursday. He was the winner with 18 votes at the time. Here is Bob’s Idea on our IdeaX site, and here is Bob’s blog post about that same idea. Also worth mentioning is that last week, according to our analytics, Bob’s idea had the most views of any idea on IdeaX.
Kudos to Bob for getting the most votes and most views! Thanks also for your idea, the time you spent crafting it, and your overall interest and participation and promotion of the crowd-sourcing experiment.
The second place vote getter was a local, Ward Tongen (@wtongen). Ward was just behind Bob by a couple of votes on Thursday. You can see Ward’s idea on IdeaX and on his blog; Wardo-Gram. Ward is a highly respected member of our local social media community as evidenced by a the Top 20 Twin Cities Social Media Innovators posting and resulting comments on Arik Hanson’s blog.
We liked a number of elements from Bob’s and Ward’s ideas, as well as many of the other ideas submitted and plan to use them in the “official” job description that will be posted to the marketing page of our careers site on Monday.
We also liked a significant number of the ideas submitted by the rest of those who participated, all listed below. We’ll be using elements from many of their ideas in our final job posting.
Michael Brito: Blogging at Britopian.com.
Leigh Duncan-Durst : Blogging at Livepath.blogspot.com
Dan Monfre : Blogging at WCCO’s Adblog
John Carson : Blogging at MakeJohnnyCash.blogspot.com
Adam Lauer : his Agency’s blog ANidea.com
Gerry Corbett : Blogging at Corbett.us
Bob (not Roth) , not sure who Bob is so couldn’t find any links.
Christy Brewer : Blogging at Brewpoint.com
Steve Dwyer : couldn’t find a blog for Steve.
Susan Getgood : Blogging at Getgood.com
John E Merritt : Blogging at TheMerritfactor.wordpress.com
Nichole Kelly : Blogging at Bringinginnovationback.wordpress.com
Robert McKeever : Online at RobertMckeever.com
Tim Cohn : Blogging at Searchmarketingcommunications.com
Here are all of the ideas in one place on IdeaX
One other person who contributed, but didn’t officially submit an idea is Olivier Blanchard. He actually had an idea for a Social Media Director job description posted to his blog before we even ran our contest. We thought his ideas were pretty spot on and worthy of a mention. His post is here, Is Your Social Media Director Qualified? In general Olivier has a lot of other quality posts related to hiring people for social media related roles and about social media for business in general. We may use some of his stuff as well.
Thanks again to all those who contributed time, effort, and intelligence to our problem. Joshua Kahn in staffing (who has a blog of his own find-attract.com) is planning on putting together a case study/whitepaper on this whole project to be shared publicly.
Our intention is to share what we’ve learned from this in a way that helps others in considering the best way to hire for similar roles.
Barry, thanks for the update! FYI, if you made the links you mention live, then you’d help all of these great blogs with their Google PageRank. Cheers!
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Barry Judge (BestBuy CMO) comments on crowdsourcing contest & props 2 my win! [link to post] #smckc #bbytweets
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Neat update on the Best Buy crowdsourced job for SM: [link to post]
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RT @BestBuyCMO BestBuyCMOJust posted an update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post] . Thoughts?
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BBY cutting edgeRT @BestBuyCMO: Just posted an update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post] . Thoughts?
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RT @BestBuyCMO: Just posted an update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post] . Thoughts?
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RT @TwittGoddess: RT @BestBuyCMO: Just posted an update on Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post] . Thoughts?
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Just saw this great use of crowdsourcing by Best Buy to write a soc. media job descrip: http://bit.ly/pgSf & followup [link to post]
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Stellar! Thanks for making the links live!
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Very cool, interactive idea: RT @rockstarjen: Update #2 on Best Buy’s Crowdsourcing the Emerging Media Job Description [link to post]
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Just posted an update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post] . Thoughts?
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@BestBuyCMO Sounds cool. I want it. Well, I should actually go read it….
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Update #2 on Best Buy’s Crowdsourcing the Emerging Media Job Description [link to post]
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@zamess congrats on the “win” on this [link to post] fixed the link issue
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@gfcorbett @at0m611 @dizzy @sgetgood @johnemerritt @InnovateMarCom @johncarson thanks for your ideas on this [link to post]
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@joshuakahn Why you’re welcome. I hope it was helpful in some capacity.
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Very cool!! RT @joshuakahn: ANNOUNCED: the winner of Best Buy’s job description crowdsourcing experiment [link to post] #bbytweets
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Update #2 on Crowdsourcing the Emerging Media Job Description – [link to post]
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@timcohn @wtongen @livepath @tdrichter @britopian @danmonfre @robustoUNC @xybrewer thanks for your ideas on this [link to post]
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@thebrandbuilder @arikhanson thanks for your participation in the convo too on the crowdsourcing bit [link to post]
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woot! RT @zamees: Barry Judge (BestBuy CMO) comments on crowdsourcing contest & props 2 my win! [link to post] #smckc #bbytweets
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Thanks for including me in your post, Barry. Much appreciated.
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Interesting! RT @BestBuyCMO Just posted an update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post]. Thoughts?
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@BestBuyCMO @joshuakahn Thanks for the kind mention today: [link to post]
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RT @joshuakahn: ANNOUNCED: the winner of Best Buy’s job description crowdsourcing experiment [link to post]
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RT @thebrandbuilder: @BestBuyCMO @joshuakahn Thanks for the kind mention today: [link to post] (re: BB SM role)
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Barry Judge » Blog Archive » Update #2 on Crowdsourcing the … [link to post]
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Thanks for the shout out Barry.
I think Crowdsourcing the Emerging Media Job Description is a great example of thesis number 64 in the Cluetrain Manifesto:
“We want access to your corporate information, to your plans and strategies, your best thinking, your genuine knowledge. We will not settle for the 4-color brochure, for web sites chock-a-block with eye candy but lacking any substance.”
Way to go BBY.
Thanks for the update, Barry. Your work came up in my presentation at a PR 2.0 event recently. One of the interesting comments I overheard that day: Best Buy is using open source for HR. What you’re really doing, in my opinion, is using your community to build value. For Best Buy. For your team. And ultimately, for your customers.
Now that’s smart business.
@arikhanson
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Interesting use of crowdsourcing in the recruiting arena at Best Buy [link to post]
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Wow! The follow-up on this is amazing! I’m really impressed that you all went out of your way to find my web site and link to it in this post. Most people will simply publish the Twitter handle and a link, but Best Buy took the time to include my real name to boot!
Edson, if you’re reading this, you made a great choice with Best Buy!
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Well worth the read RT @BestBuyCMO: update on the Emerging Media Crowdsourcing Job posting. [link to post]
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