FCC Launches Social Network for ‘Crowd-Sourcing’ Ideas for National Broadband Plan

WASHINGTON, September 11, 2009 – The Federal Communications Commission continues to expand its social networking efforts. On Friday, the agency launched a crowd-sourcing platform, Ideascale, at http://broadband.gov/ideascale. The Web 2.0 tool allows users to comment on particular points in a national broadband plan, voting items up or down on a rolling scale, or to add new ideas into the mix. As of 12:51 p.m., the top three ideas on the site were “Broadband plan must address needs of people with disabilities;” “Some specific points about accessibility,” including obtaining detailed disability information in surveys and market research activities, and “Data coordination” between the FCC and other government agencies. In a statement, the FCC said that “crowd-sourcing allows the online community to discuss, evaluate and rank ideas. The platform will be especially useful as the Commission develops a National Broadband Plan, which will provide a strategy for reaching all Americans with robust broadband.”
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Salesforce.com Helps Businesses Manage Social Networking, Crowdsourcing

With the new Salesforce.com Service Cloud, small businesses can manage their Twitter activity and crowdsourcing within their Force.com CRM platform. For small businesses using Salesforce.com, the popular cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform, jumping on the web 2.0 bandwagon just got a lot easier.
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