Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
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Monitoring social media for digital humanitarian response can be a massive undertaking. The sheer volume and velocity of tweets generated during a disaster makes real-time social media monitoring particularly challenging if not near impossible. However, two new studies argue that there is “a better way to track the spread of information on Twitter that is much more powerful.”
An imaginative application of crowdsourcing where 2,000 people participated in the creation of a song by each recording short sound-bite being unaware of the overall objective of the project.
An easy read that will let you know what crowdsourcing is, and explains it with good examples.
An article from 2007 explaining the concepts of crowdsourcing with some good examples.
A brief article explaining that crowdsourcing provides new opportunities to individuals that might otherwise avail them.
A good read on how crowdSPRING, a crowdsourcing company was started.
A very interesting look at a socially beneficial application of crowdsourcing for ways to improve the design and management of cities. Many good examples are provided.
This article presents that executives in the design industry say crowdsourcing is one of the best ways to stay on top of consumer trends stating "it's more powerful when the consumer is...
A good read thats gives the reader directions/guide/rules to successful crowdsourcing.
An interesting article and an extensive comment stream challenging the merits of crowdsourcing.
A good read where Shannon Low shares the story behind Mobrick, and answers questions related to the two sites, Shoplette and Zinerepublic.
A good read on how crowdsourcing drives participation within communities and let people feel recognized and heard.
A good read which discusses in detail crowdfunding and journalism.
A good example of creative ways to develop innovative solutions by engaging communities who participate for financial, social and professional rewards.
This article is for the entrepreneurs who would like to find out some ways they can utilize the knowledge of the crowd in their business.
One can crowdsource many things and this article is an example of crowdsourcing a song where more that two thousand people contributed.
This article is a good example of how company is using crowdsourcing to solve a problem.
This articles talks about the project Assignment Zero, an attempt to crowdsource journalism.
A good read on how information on social sites could be used for promotions.
A good read on how new products are being developed by involving the masses and getting their feedback to drive product development.
This article provides a lot of information on crowd wisdom providing information on companies that have been selected as technology pioneers in 2008 as a result of their achievements.
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