Team up with man and machine

In addition to having people signed up to share their views, you can have a machine set to automate your scanning and discovery of trends, spottings, and ideas. Co:tunity lets you broaden and speed up the process of trend spotting and analysis with high quality collection and filtering of relevant news articles. You probably know that there is a great chance of finding relevant trend spottings on sites like The Guardian or TechCrunch. Why not set up digital agents to scan and read the articles for you? Similar mechanisms can be used to gather inspiring ideas. Crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo or FundedbyMe present new, brilliant (and sometimes bad) ideas that you can be inspired by. There are thousands of news and idea sharing sites out there that can be turbo-scanned for you. Read how this works here.

Easy capture of spottings and suggestions 

Participants can capture and share spottings or ideas, with supporting images, videos, links, voice recordings and even documents from the web or their smartphone app. At this level, all posted material is visible for the whole team to universally collaborate on with comments, votes and chat conversations. Highest rated and most commented are highlighted to give wider knowledge and inspire people to connect, change and improve.

Map significant trend spottings and awesome idea suggestions

Co:tunity’s 'slider rating' is a simple yet powerful tool for evaluating and identifying the trend spottings of greatest significance and idea suggestions of greatest awesomeness. Participants with an 'analyst role' will individually be able to give their rating on a scale from 0-10 prior to seeing the average result of other analysts. In the same evaluation process, analysts can tag spottings to existing or new trends – or suggestions to existing or new ideas. All with a step-by-step methodology guidance and availiability on both web and mobile apps, to allow faster progress and quality feedback from participants.

Automated shared appreciation and quality feedback

A full package of automated yet customizable e-mail and push-notifications will keep your participants fully engaged:

• When any of the other participants voted or commented on your post
• When someone posted a spotting or suggestion similar to yours (to encourage collaboration)
• When an analyst mapped your post
• When someone's post got rated higher than a pre-defined score (to spread and motivate greatness)