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Foundry launches first co-founded business ProductionParty.com
document Cloud Labor

Dale McCarthy, founder of Foundry, says the site caters for all types of video production, from web advertising and web how-to videos to corporate videos and high-end TVCs. “As a seasoned...

Fritz SchaeferMay 16, 2012 11:28 pm GMT169 views
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Foundry launches first co-founded business ProductionParty.com
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Foundry launches first co-founded business ProductionParty.com
document Cloud Labor

Dale McCarthy, founder of Foundry, says the site caters for all types of video production, from web advertising and web how-to videos to corporate videos and high-end TVCs. “As a seasoned...

Fritz SchaeferMay 16, 2012 11:28 pm GMT169 views
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Foundry launches first co-founded business ProductionParty.com
4 Cool Crowdsourcing Projects for the Common Good
Cloud Labor, Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

For some reason, there's been a recent boost in projects looking to serve the public interest using crowdsourcing. Perhaps April showers brings May do-gooding. Here's 4 projects in particular that have caught my eye of late:

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Eric MackMay 16, 2012 10:53 pm GMT304 views
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Introducing the Era of the Social Salesperson
Cloud Labor

Occassionally, we ask the people behind crowdsourcing platforms and other initiatives to share their stories with us. We posed the following questions to Jordan Bowerman of SociallyShared.com about the platform for tapping the power of "social sales" to promote products.

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Eric MackMay 15, 2012 07:37 pm GMT498 views
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Crowdsourcing Company Offers Contest Jobs for Freelancers Interested in Providing Logo Design Services
document Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Tools

Logo design contest jobs are posted on Witmart.com for free which is an attractive element to Witmart’s brand. The employer only needs to set the maximum price the company is willing to pay for the...

ClaireMay 15, 2012 02:53 pm GMT243 views
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Crowdsourcing Company Offers Contest Jobs for Freelancers Interested in Providing Logo Design Services
Crowdsourcing from business point of view. Crowdsourcing application on business.
article Cloud Labor, Open Innovation, Tools

¿How the companies can apply the crowdsourcing? In this post we offer some possible applications, as well as show you some sucess cases that brands are having.

SamanthaMay 15, 2012 12:01 pm GMT426 views
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Crowdsourcing from business point of view. Crowdsourcing application on business.
SOLUCINEO, SOLUTIONS WITHOUT LIMITS. THE CROWDSOURCING 3.0
blog Cloud Labor, Open Innovation, Tools

Leading the revolution by innovating Solucioneo has innovated crowdsourcing’s business model and methodology. Due to these changes solucioneo has been established as the first platform that allows...

SamanthaMay 15, 2012 11:14 am GMT279 views
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SOLUCINEO, SOLUTIONS WITHOUT LIMITS. THE CROWDSOURCING 3.0
10 Shortcuts to a Greater Life via Crowdsourcing
document Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

The following sites provide you with shortcuts to a greater life through crowdsourcing: 1. SeeClickFix 2. PatientsLikeMe 3. Taskrabbit 4. Mygengo 5. Ushahidi 6. oDesk 7. 99designs 8....

Luis Enrique MoralesMay 14, 2012 09:50 pm GMT559 views
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10 Shortcuts to a Greater Life via Crowdsourcing
Overclockers to fight for global supremacy
document Cloud Labor

The competition sees overclocking and hardware enthusiast communities assemble special teams, each of which aim to do as much work as possible for Folding@home, the crowdsourced distributed...

Fritz SchaeferMay 14, 2012 12:36 pm GMT315 views
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Overclockers to fight for global supremacy
Witmart Crowdsourcing For Creative Business Solutions
article Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

Witmart.com is a global online crowdsourcing service market that aims to provide Employers and Providers with the most reliable marketplace to post and find jobs. Millions of freelancing experts...

Edward LinMay 14, 2012 07:09 am GMT254 views
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Witmart Crowdsourcing For Creative Business Solutions
How To Raise A $1M Seed Round
document Cloud Labor

Scripted.com – a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers, recently closed a $1M seed round led by an institution (Crosslink Capital). Here are some ideas on how To raise a $1M Seed...

Pablo BracciniMay 14, 2012 05:38 am GMT261 views
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How To Raise A $1M Seed Round
From the Crowd Podcast: Clickworker and Global Crowdsourcing
Cloud Labor

In the third installment of Crowdsourcing.org's From the Crowd podcast, editor Eric Mack spoke with Clickworker CEO Christian Rozsenich (pictured above, on the right, with former CEO Wolfgang Kitza) about the company's growing crowd an the future of crowdsourcing worldwide.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 13, 2012 05:26 pm GMT531 views
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8 Crowd Insights From 8 Crowdsourcing Workshops
Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

Ross Dawson shares some of the crucial ideas that have come out of interactive discussions on crowdsourcing from recent conferences in Europe.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 11, 2012 03:32 pm GMT871 views
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blur Trading 2.0 - Streamlining Creative Procurement
blog Cloud Labor

blur Trading 2.0 delivers a highly scalable architecture that extends blur Group’s use of social, cloud and crowd technologies to deliver a unique trading platform for the Exchange. It helps both...

Fiona MaresMay 11, 2012 01:08 pm GMT340 views
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blur Trading 2.0 - Streamlining Creative Procurement
Crowdsourcing Helps Battle Tech Bullies
article Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

WeGoLook offers services to consumers to help protect them from being taken advantage of by "tech bullies" - or internet scammers. Many of these tech bullies post fake listings or...

WeGoLook.comMay 10, 2012 05:43 pm GMT512 views
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Crowdsourcing Helps Battle Tech Bullies
Crowdsourced Translation Platform Grabs $1 Million
Cloud Labor

Crowdsourced translation platform Amara -- formerly known as Universal Subtitles -- just got a big vote of confidence from the Mozilla and Knight Foundations, in the form of $1 million in funding.

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Eric MackMay 10, 2012 02:40 pm GMT442 views
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Biopolitics, territories and signs of crisis in multinational network companies
document Cloud Labor

The attractiveness of “peer production”, freeing people from the compulsive and pathogenic ways of companies, is the real driving force of exodus, even if start-ups can also find themselves...

Jason RobbinsMay 10, 2012 01:29 pm GMT284 views
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Biopolitics, territories and signs of crisis in multinational network companies
99Designs: Crowdsourcer Crowdsources its Own Site
document Cloud Labor

According to a press release, 99Designs: "the largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design services is challenging its own community of more than 150,000 graphic designers...

Adam FrazerMay 09, 2012 07:03 am GMT345 views
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99Designs: Crowdsourcer Crowdsources its Own Site
Alternative Economies: A Conversation With Caroline Woolard
document Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge

An interview with OurGoods founder, Caroline Woolard. OurGoods is a barter network for creative people, connecting artists, designers and craftspeople in order to trade skills, spaces and...

Marco TorquatiMay 07, 2012 08:35 pm GMT520 views
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Alternative Economies: A Conversation With Caroline Woolard
Neighbor Favor Intro
video Cloud Labor

Neighbor Favor is a community delivery service for college students. Ask favors from friends and neighbors and they will pick up anything at your local store.

Pablo BracciniMay 07, 2012 02:54 pm GMT393 views
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Neighbor Favor Intro
College students earn cash by running each other’s errands
document Cloud Labor

Now following in the footsteps of Sherrands, RunMyErrand and DoMyStuff.com comes NeighborFavor, a site that lets college students earn cash by helping each other with their shopping.

Pablo BracciniMay 07, 2012 02:41 pm GMT412 views
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College students earn cash by running each other’s errands
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