March 29, 2011
Ideavibes Announcing Partners – Customer Success – Engage4change Contest
Ideavibes exhibiting at Web2.0 with their Crowd Engagement Platform, and announces Pathways2Sustainability Success Story and Partnership with Sustainability Systems.
Ottawa, ON and San Francisco, CA – Web 2.0 – Ideavibes has announced that Sustainability Systems of Calgary will be joining them as an Integration Partner for the Ideavibes Engagement Platform. Sustainability Systems will focus on capacity building in the area of engagement for municipal and provincial/state governments throughout North America.
"We were lucky to have found such a strong partner to work with us just as the Platform was launched. Growing our footprint quickly as the choice for a Crowd Engagement Platform to help communities with citizen engagement can only happen with the right partners in place," according to Paul Dombowsky, Founder and CEO of Ideavibes. "Early on we see demand from cities from all over the world looking for the tools to go beyond what web forms and email can do. Social media provides engagement but is challenged when it comes to the management of ideas and the data – our platform offers that."
Sustainability Systems organized the 2011 Pathways 2 Sustainability conference held recently in Red Deer, AB. According to Shawn Ripley of Sustainability Systems, they originally planned and built a website using typical social media tools such as blogs, profiles and other systems. While the P2S conference registrations went very well, only a moderate level of interest was being generated in the network itself. "To get the engagement we needed, we then implemented a crowdsourcing call and used the Ideavibes tool which conference attendees used to help shape the conference content and speakers. The sluggish response to the network was immediately overcome once the Ideavibes tool was implemented and network members became very active on the site and were excited to use the system," according to Ripley. "We saw real value in what the Ideavibes solution offered and how easy it was to implement and procure using their subscription model. This is something our other clients (cities and developers) can take advantage of."
Ideavibes is putting their Crowd Engagement Platform to work at Web2.0 in San Francisco this week as part of the Emerging Technology Pavilion. They launched Engaged4change (www.engage4change.com) and are using this campaign to engage San Francisco citizens to crowdsource the best ideas for affordable housing and transportation – two hot button items in any city. On April 12th, Ideavibes will give the winning idea the Ideavibes Prize based on votes from the crowd.
The Platform is also the backbone for the recently launched Fundchange (www.fundchange.com) crowdfunding initiative with TELUS.
About Ideavibes
Ideavibes has developed a Crowd Engagement Platform™ that enables organizations to create crowdsourcing and crowdfunding campaigns that use the power of social media and tapping into the wisdom of crowd to strengthen relationships through engagement and participation. It's about starting innovative projects, building better products, setting new directions and being more crowd or community focused, funding worthy initiatives and sparking social change.
For more information, please visit www.ideavibes.com or www.engage4change.com.
Ideavibes is a registered a trademark of Ideavibes Marketing Limited. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Paul Dombowsky
Founder and ceo
613-878-1681
paul@ideavibes.com
Cecily Ruttenberg
Sunlight PR
408-431-0936
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What's New @ Ideavibes
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December 7, 2012
Fundchange Announces Alliance with FundRazr and Wrap-Up of one of Canada's First Crowdfunding Initiatives -
November 6, 2012
Ideavibes Announces Startup Dream Team for Relaunch
New team along with recent investment by Mercury Grove to help Ideavibes become the market leader in making crowdsourcing the go-to tool for driving innovation and change. -
October 24, 2012
Ideavibes Gives Talk at Product Innovation Conference
Paul Dombowsky gave a keynote presentation today at the PDMA's Product Innovation Management Conference in Orlando. The focus of the talk was Managing Risk when implementing Crowdsourcing and Social Product Development. The slides, if interested, are available to download here. If you have any questions about social product development and Ideavibes may be able to help you get the crowd more involved in your product development process, please contact paul@ideavibes.com. -
October 18, 2012
Ideavibes Receives Investment from Mercury Grove for next generation crowdsourcing platform -
October 16, 2012
Survey Reveals Attitudes in Canada towards Crowdfunding -
October 10-11, 2012
Ideavibes' Paul Dombowsky to speak at the Public Sector Social Media Conference put on by the Conference Board of Canada, in Ottawa -
August 16, 2012
Ideavibes Announces Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Advisory Services to Support Governments, Non-Profits and Brands -
August 14, 2012
Ideavibes and CATA Announce Survey focused on learning attitudes and willingness to participate in the crowdfunding of start-ups and social enterprises in Canada: Add your views today -
July 18, 2012
Ideavibes Founder to Speak on Crowdfunding at Federal Reserve Community Development Finance Conference -
May 31, 2012
Scouts Canada Teams with Ideavibes to Build Engagement and Innovation with Members
National organization looks to crowdsourcing as part of its engagement and innovation strategy to tap into the expertise of its community -
April 26, 2012
Engage the Crowd – Lunch and Learn Workshop – University of Calgary
Building Better Products, Stronger Organizations and Communities through Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation
