Crowdsourced Insight Collection

As you work with your organization's strategic direction, you know you have a lot to learn from the people in your business divisions and regions. What are the common denominators? What's different between the European and the North American markets? Make a structured effort to gather insights from key people across your organization, create a form, or interview them. Have them use the Contribution button in Wide Narrow email a dedicated Inbox, connect a Teams or a Slack channel to your WN inbox, and ensure that the insights you collect from them will not be accessible anywhere else. 

Wide Narrow features to use:

Contribute and Email to the portal

Contribute button in Wide Narrow:

Users can contribute to a Wide Narrow portal using the Contribute button in Wide Narrow. This feature requires that the people in your organization have access to Wide Narrow as end-users or super-users.

How to start

1. Navigate to Inboxes and click New Inbox to create an Inbox dedicated to receiving the Contributions. In the New inbox form: Check the Contributable checkbox to make the Inbox Contributable.
2. Encourage your colleagues to use the Contribute button in Wide Narrow. Inform your colleagues that they should choose your Inbox to contribute to when filling out the contribution form.
3. Check your contribution inbox regularly and use the share post function to thank the contributors.

Email to a dedicated portal Inbox

An easy way for your colleagues to contribute posts is to email a dedicated contribution inbox in your Wide Narrow portal. If the email contains a link to a web page, we will extract the title, abstract, and image and add them to the Contribution.

How to start

1. Navigate to Inboxes and click New Inbox to create an Inbox dedicated to receiving the contributions. In the New inbox form: Check the Contributable checkbox to make the Inbox Contributable.
2. Click on the mail icon (envelope) in the top banner menu in Wide Narrow to find the email address to your portal in Wide Narrow.
3. Add the inbox name as a prefix to the portal address with a dot between the inbox name and portal name (example: [e-mail], where "Contributions" is the inbox name and "Ice" is the portal name). Save the address in your email contacts.
4. Email strategic questions to your colleagues and encourage them to answer your questions, and share their insights by the inbox-portal email address.
5. Check your contribution inbox regularly and use the share post function to thank the contributors.