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Wer nur den Sieger kürt, macht alle anderen zu Verlierern. So lautet das gängige Credo hinsichtlich Wettbewerben und Gewinnspielen. Für Single- shots kein Problem, aber wer dauerhaft eine Community...
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Starbucks is still considering the Karma Cup solution internally, and it may well be considering some of the other 429 ideas contributed by the community. But one thing is clear: its effort shows...
A survey conducted by leading European creative crowdsourcing website 12designer.com will be presented at the Crowdconvention in Berlin. The results of the survey, in which over 700 users from...
It may seem odd that so many countries and international heavy-hitters have signed on for a logo competition. However, the contest speaks to the power that brands and brand recognition have on...
Clickworker has provided writers the opportunity to further develop as a technical, creative and professional writer.This way of working has opened the doors not only to other areas of writing and...
Choosing the winner just makes everyone else the losers. This is the common creed regarding contests and sweepstakes. For a single shot, no problem, but if you want to permanently keep a community happy, the “winner takes all” principle leads quickly to affect the commitment of the members and potentially diminish the creativity of the platform. Perhaps it is precisely this approach that is driving good designers to join 12Designer competitions. It is precisely these subtleties in the motivational construct of members that Eva Missling, founder of 12Designer, wanted to find. Click here for German.
Social Media Week in Berlin (19-23 September 2011) will bring together jovoto, a creative crowdsourcing platform for collaborative idea generation together with Start Next, a crowdfunding platform for artists, designers and inventors to undertake a unique experiment to merge the power of creative crowdsourcing with the power of crowdfunding. Together jovoto and Start Next will kick-off a cross-platform initiative to crowdfund and then produce, works of art. The concept is; three weeks of proposals to identify artists, four weeks funding followed by two weeks of art.
They believe that everyone is an artist and that everyone has the ability to create art. jovoto and Start Next will help fund artists and then enable the distribution their work over the Internet so that they can reach the broadest possible audience. The development and implementation of creative ideas through the Internet is increasingly becoming a collaborative act. Creative crowdsourcing can involve the broadcast of a creative endeavor inviting creatives to provide individual works. Alternatively, art can be formed as a result of the collective participation of many artists. Artists like Aaron Koblin have demonstrated how it’s possible to create unique work by tapping into large communities of artists, often involving thousands of individuals. Crowdsourcing both provides the opportunity for new talent to be found and new forms of art to be created.
The first NGO to take advantage of the service was Austrian charity association Hope For Dogs, which seeks a new home for abandoned Hungarian dogs. Help For Dogs received 77 proposals in a few...
Clickworker utilizes its workforce in the cloud to catalog and tag more than 400,000 photos — bringing to life yet-unseen collections from the world’s oldest photography museum the George Eastman...
How could crowdsourcing help startups, SMEs and entrepreneurs? Easy: by providing them with a powerful collaborative tool to solve communication tasks. Creative crowdsourcing helps businesses to...
2012 is the year of curated crowdsourcing for startups: this is 12designer's view. The creative crowdsourcing, Berlin-based platform, foresees an interesting trend regarding curated...
Check out this great video from the German crowdsourcing company jovoto. They’re holding a contest for Coke at the moment, and it’s a great interview of the company’s VP of Design, David Butler....
Crowdsourcing has evolved significantly over the last several years. It started as a promising tool and has developed into a proven method. Eva Missling, founder of 12designer.com, takes a page out of Chauncey Gardiner's book and ponders how to apply gardening principles to creative crowdsourcing.
Crowdsourcing has now also reached the advertising sector. Platforms like Jovoto are used to post pitches - enabling creative professionals around the world to contribute. Find out more:...
99designs has become increasingly focused on building out its international user base, and Llewellyn tells us that 12designers represents an important strategic opportunity to expand via...
99designs, the San Francisco and Melbourne-based crowdsourced design marketplace, last night announced it has acquired 12designer, a Berlin-based rival site with a community of 22,000 designers. 99designs did not disclose the terms of the deal.
99designs, the creative crowdsourcing company, announced earlier this week it's expanding into Italy with a localized version of the site. This is the third non-English site the company has launched in less than half a year, when it bought 12designer.
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