{"id":223,"date":"2008-08-24T08:26:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-08-24T08:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:26:31","slug":"platforms-are-about-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/platforms-are-about-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Platforms are about opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platforms are <strong>about opportunity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Using our platform imagine the possibilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using Fontera (a milk co-operative) as your platform you can suddenly<strong> reach unreachable markets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Using Facebook as a platform you can engage with your customers in <strong>new ways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Using Basecamp as a platform to organise your business from you can suddenly run your business <strong>from any location<\/strong> easily.<\/p>\n<p>I have written about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/platforms\/\">Platforms before<\/a> but I&#8217;ve been chewing them over moreso of recent.<\/p>\n<p>How can I turn <strong>these resources into a platform for others?<\/strong> How could I modify our systems to provide a platform for others (and operate as a saas)<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas i&#8217;ve had is:<\/p>\n<p>Turn my productivity system into a platform for others to use<\/p>\n<p>Turn our research writing systems into a service to other organisations wishing to collate information<\/p>\n<p>Turn our Marketing systems into Software as a Service<\/p>\n<p>Stop and think about your existing systems \/ services,<strong> could you rebundle those into a platform?<\/strong> Maybe you should? or maybe just <strong>critically thinking about it will help you manage your existing resources or platforms better<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platforms are about opportunity. Using our platform imagine the possibilities. Using Fontera (a milk co-operative) as your platform you can suddenly reach unreachable markets. Using Facebook as a platform you can engage with your customers in new ways. Using Basecamp as a platform to organise your business from you can suddenly run your business from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[946,1053,1089,1208,1228],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}