Tag: community

Collaborative Pioneer Interview with Ari Kestin of Nimber

Ari Kestin is the CEO and founder of p2p delivery service, Nimber (formerly known as Easybring). The platform is a marketplace for matching delivery needs with spare capacity. In July 2014, it launched globally to open its market beyond Norway. It now has 22, 303 people on its platform from almost 70 countries. What inspired you to start…  Read more

When Customers Are Your Product: Collaborative Communities at CMX Summit

Over the last decade, ‘community’ has become an increasingly important part of the conversation for everyone from start-up brands to Fortune 500 businesses as we recognize the powerful force that they are in driving popularity and uptake of a product or idea, or providing real-time feedback about a company’s performance. For most collaborative consumption companies,…  Read more

Will community gardeners replace community managers?

“What we have to do in an online community is the same as we would in a garden,” said Dave Neary at the OpenSource World Conference in Granada in 2012. “We have to create the circumstances for plants to grow healthy and strong.” The concept of community gardener was introduced by Cristóbal Gracia at the start…  Read more

The Netherlands: Off and running towards a collaborative economy

On Tuesday 16th April, Dutch peer-to-peer start-up owners, researchers, trend watchers, and many more found their way to the heart of Amsterdam for an afternoon and evening dedicated to the launch of ShareNL, the brand new platform for the Dutch Sharing economy founded by five Dutch peer-to-peer platforms. The aim of ShareNL is to boost…  Read more

How-Tos: Host a Great Event

Shareable interviewed leading collaborative consumption community organisers to get their feedback on what makes a fantastic event. Check out their pro-tips and advice here.

Carpooling.com Member Profiles

What is the average carpooler like? Carpooling.com has shared their great infographic profiling their members.

Australia gets haggling with the National Garage Sale Trail

Over the past few decades, our houses have gotten bigger, the average family size has gotten smaller and yet we own more stuff than we know what to do with. With over 22 million rentable square feet of storage in Australia and New Zealand, it is estimated that Australians are hoarding more than 120 million…  Read more