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  • Which type of network suits your business?

    By on 21 September, 2009

    Prosumer is one of those horrible words. But it does encapsulate an ethos sweeping through online business today (particularly media), where the audience/readers/viewers/consumers are no longer treated in a passive way but actively brought more into the business or publishing processes. It's also known as crowd sourcing. To understand exactly what this means, here's a great framework for understanding it. The clever people at the Harvard Business School (HBS) have defined four types...