Crowdsourced Content Platform for Corporate Social Network Growth
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large corporations face difficulties in building and maintaining internal social networks due to member diversity, leading to a lack of shared values and interests, which hinders network growth.
Innovation Solution
A crowdsourced content publication platform that allows users to create and contribute content, such as yearbooks or culture books, using a template configuration system, enabling diverse groups to collaborate and form new social networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional social networking services are used for internal corporate networks, then users can interact and share content, but member diversity leads to lack of shared values and interests, hindering network growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the corporate social network into multiple interest-based communities or groups. Instead of a single monolithic network where diversity creates friction, the system divides users into smaller segments based on shared interests, projects, or departments. This allows users to interact effectively within homogeneous groups while the overall network accommodates diverse corporate populations, resolving the contradiction between ease of interaction and adaptability to diversity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If diverse members are included in the network, then the network covers more organizational scope, but lack of shared values and interests reduces engagement and growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different regions or groups within the corporate network to have customized characteristics. Each interest-based community can develop its own culture, communication style, and content focus tailored to its specific members' interests. This enables the overall network to maintain broad organizational coverage while each local community sustains high engagement through shared values and interests specific to that group.
3Adaptability or versatility
If bottom-up organic growth is used, then early adopters can form initial networks, but large corporations struggle to build and maintain internal social networks due to diversity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-establishing interest-based communities and content templates before users need to interact. The system proactively creates structured frameworks for collaboration, predefined content categories, and organized community structures. This preliminary setup reduces the difficulty of network establishment in large corporations by providing ready-made structures that accommodate diversity while facilitating immediate engagement, rather than requiring organic growth from scratch.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, computer-readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for creating a crowdsourced content publication. Layout information defining a layout of elements of a crowdsourced content publication is received. Contribution privilege information identifying a group of users of a social networking service as contributors to the crowdsourced content publication is received. The group of users may belong to a common organization as defined by a social graph maintained by the social networking service. Content criteria information specifying one or more criteria for selection of content included in the crowdsourced content publication is then received. The layout information, contribution privilege information, and content criteria information are then processed to generate a template for the crowdsourced content publication.