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Japan vs. US: Cross-Cultural Differences in User Research

freshtrax

Occasionally, crowdsourcing sites are used when the target is not as niche. For instance, LINE, a messaging app similar to WhatsApp, is the most dominant service used in Japan. It is so essential in day-to-day communication that many companies use LINE and email to communicate instead of text messaging. – Focus groups.

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

Slack is a channel-based messaging platform We use channels to organize our work into focused, easily searchable conversations?—?for For example, we run a weekly executive product review with a small group, sparing people’s time from unnecessary meetings, and then “pin” the notes in a public channel.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

Keep your calendar updated—along with your status icons on your asynchronous messaging platform of choice—so your team can quickly see if you’re available for an impromptu interaction. Aside from regularly scheduled check-ins, remote leaders also benefit from having an open-door policy, even when there’s no actual door involved.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

Typically, you don’t start introducing this role until a company gets to at least a moderate amount in size, so they should have a peer group. Brian: One of the most interesting things about the approach to the book was how important the crowdsourcing part was. There’s definitely tech leads in our groups.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

Once your landing page is live, you can start collecting leads, offer a preview of your app press and early adopters, and integrate with an analytics or A/B testing tool to test variations of your messaging strategy. App promo videos take your marketing to the next level by bringing your messaging to life. PLAN A BETA RELEASE.

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Black Women’s Business Collective founder Zanade Mann on advocating for your peers

Intercom, Inc.

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. One of my email newsletters to my group was called When The Hype Goes Away. Peer Support & Engagement Groups. So, I’m still on that.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. All of a sudden 30% of the time this group is loyal to one another. So, there’s only one BUS running within the vehicle for transmission in the canvas and it can be used to send messages. Those of you from the UK? Absolutely great.