I knew only about a few of the websites you mentioned. Having so many around the same idea make me think this is one concept that will be successful and will shape a little bit the future.

—Schwabe
Nerdbusiness.com

Thanks

We’re seeing many of the same usage patterns that Vivek describes. One other key differentiator is that we’ve created a virtual economy around good ideas by giving users “votes” to spend on ideas. It’s a big improvement over the simple vote up / down functionality provided by a lot of our competitors in that it forces users to focus on their top ideas, gives admins a concept of priority and helps prevent a vocal minority from drowning out the voices of the rest of the community.

We’re also about to “officially” launch our enterprise version that we’ve been piloting with a number of clients.

Good review and thanks for the mention.

Thanks Josh for the round-up. There are actually three models that have emerged since we launched IdeaScale that I think we’d like to share.

We originally designed IdeaScale for a consumer facing model – where companies can put their feedback portal in front of their customers and solicit ideas. After the launch however we’ve seen an employee facing model gain a lot of traction as well as a “frontline” facing model – I’ll explain what the frontline facing model is — this is where the ideascale portal is exposed to the sales and support staff. Not to the customers, but internal teams that have to deal with customers day in and day out. This allows senior management to hear directly what the collective voice of the sales and support staff who indirectly obviously represent the customer.

We’ve obviously adapted to provide all three models to our customers depending upon how comfortable they are with adopting the crowdsourcing approach.