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When the lit match of gamificaiton hits the exposed jet fuel of crowdfunding both will feed speed, scale and intelligence into the other. I've read the Forrester report that predicts 80% gamification failure by 2015 and have two thoughts. 

1. 80% failure is about the normal Internet marketing "hit" rate.

2. That means 20% are going to win BIG, very big.

The combination of gamification and crowdfunding is more likely than not to be in that 20% winner category.  

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

I selected this article today curated by Robin Good because customizing content to fit each segment is a must for effective curation and content marketing.

 

Robin Good: This article (no author name) on Curata raises a very important questions for those responsible to select and publish content for a medium to large organization.

 

The issue is: do you address all of the possible customer tribes, in additional to existing and potential clients, or do you curate and select content for a specific tribe?

 

While the article overall answer acknowledges that only big brands have the power to do so and that it is more than OK not to specialize too much

 

I agree with him Robin - 

 

Those companies that do not customize comtent that is highly specific to their unique tribes will not be able to compete with those who do.

 

Robin says:

 

"Given the size and present communication strategy of many large companies, this is not something that will happen overnight, but in my view it is certain that companies which are not able to "curate" and communicate on th exact wavelength of their customers will have an increasingly hard and competitive future ahead, even when pitched against much smaller competitors".

Stimulating. 7/10

Full article:  http://www.contentcurationmarketing.com/articles/78239/should-content-curation-use-personae-and-customize/ ;

Via Robin Good, janlgordon