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How to Foster a Culture of Contribution: Communities Take Investment and Engagement, Not Just Content

How to Foster a Culture of Contribution: Communities Take Investment and Engagement, Not Just Content

Guest post by Greg Narain (@gregarious), co-founder of Chute, a social media platform that helps brands and publishers obtain rights to UGC content. Customer-contributed stories are not only powerful, theyā€™re also influential and important. Yesterday, customers conveyed their stories through text and voice. Today, weā€™ve moved to visually rich tools like photos and videos. While compelling to look at at face value, thereā€™s quite a bit more hidden within. Ever one of these stories affords us much more than just…

STIRR It Up! Founder’s Mixer 1.6 Raises the Bar

This was STIRR ā€™s sixth event and there was no doubt that it was the biggest to date. In fact they had to move from Blue Chalk in Palo Alto to The Whisper Lounge in SF in order to accomodate the growth. In discussions with Sean Ness and Joanne Wan, estimates were easily placed at about 225. 225…? Kudos STIRR team! STIRR is an effective mix of ā€œliveā€ social and business networking among a highly qualified crowd of tech innovators,…