I picked up from a fine article at finextra.com that Australia's Bendigo and Adelaide Bank have
launched an online social community where anyone with a plan, project or
idea can connect with other people to find support, resources and
expertise. This sort of community enterprise enablement through social media is the sort of thing that could really bring big changes to communities.
Users provide a description of their plan, the reason they are embarking on it and an explanation of what will constitute success. They can also post pictures, videos and documents.
Other visitors can then post comments, offering support, money, advice and information. They can also "get involved" by telling people about the plan through Facebook and Twitter, voting to support it and signing up for progress updates.
The bank says PlanBig draws on the strengths of social networking to enable people to efficiently share information, create partnerships and support each other's plans.
"One day we hope that PlanBig will be part of everyday life, a self-sustaining and self-moderating community that is of real use to passionate people and real benefit to communities with all kinds of plans, big or small," it says.
Themed collaborative platforms such as these will help to bring people together around a common purpose. Interesting to see banks getting involved in this space given older survey of facebookers have suggested they might be interested in taking up such things should vendors run with them. Good on the boys down under in getting this one out, looking to take a lead in their market space. Fortune favours the brave and this might just erm disrupt the apple cart.
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