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Seth Weinstein tells us how tapping the creative power of geeks in the Magic: The Gathering community was an early example of crowdsourcing.
Wiki Loves Monuments is not finished yet – it’s a continuous project, but the contest that ran through the month of September is now over. The national juries will deliberate in the coming month...
Drawing on young talent and getting the public vote to decide what goes to production ensures design is kept fresh and only items that will sell are manufactured.
The LEGO Group has been collaborating with CUUSOO, which has more than 10 tears of open innovation and crowd sourcing, since 2008 on a Japanese site. The platform attracted hundreds of ideas and...
According to Chris Pitre, a social marketing strategist, there are four types of crowdsourcing. There is crowd creation, which is very popular and includes flash mobs and a lot of art...
Participants can upload their self-portraits to the site for free large-scale printing, then are tasked with displaying the blown-up photo in a high-traffic location.
The Chairman is a weekly webisode series. The 'Chairman' himself is a New Yorker who reads a small excerpt from the official NYWI script in each episode. With the engagement of a story...
Crowdsourcing is both a social and collaborative mindset that many businesses need to embrace no matter whether that is to foster and develop interaction in communities or to scale and develop more...
Crowdsourcing.org is pleased to present our November 2011 “Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape” infographic, which reflects our revised industry taxonomy and is aligned with Crowdsourcing.org's category structure. The infographic is available below (an ultra high-resolution version will be available for download from the site after CrowdConf2011).
In addition to updated site listings, this new version contains a number of important changes that reflect the current views of our research and editorial teams and input from our viewers. The previous taxonomy identified seven applications of crowdsourcing as well as a ‘Tools’ category — eight in total. After a period of considerable review, we’ve settled on six main categories of crowdsourcing.
"The whole purpose of creating the much needed crowdsourcing taxonomy is to provide a framework for the industry and to structure the discussion going forward,” says Carl Esposti, founder of Crowdsourcing.org. “As with all taxonomies, it must evolve as it is reviewed and refined."
"Crowdsourcing isn’t a static phenomenon," Esposti continues. "This is the third generation of our taxonomy, which we first launched at CrowdConf2010."
Spidvid founder Jeremy Campbell shares some lessons on crowdsourcing and online video.
What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered with KL Communications to find out.
Using a tool called Netbase, which indexes and analyzes millions of conversations across the web, Crowdsourcing.org and KLC analyzed data for the top 15 sites generating the most buzz for each of the five main crowdsourcing categories in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. This report examines a year of data — timeframe: November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011 — garnered from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, news sites and consumer reviews.
Co-creation is the difference between people creating a great idea for you and people working with you to make a good idea great. It works because even the greatest creative rarely knows the...
We've already examined how the online public seems to feel about Crowdfunding, as well as Cloud Labor. Now, this week we're going to look at the data for Crowd Creativity platforms.
Software analyst Derek Singleton shares his thoughts on ushering the crowd deeper into the manufacturing process.
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org's Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing.
For six years, Doritos has held its Crash the Super Bowl, a program that relies on the consumer to turn its Super Bowl airtime into one of the most memorable ads of the evening.The Doritos brand...
During this Rennaissance period of crowd creation, ambitious projects are being initiated both from the top offices of global corporations and from the grassroots of huge online communities.
Recently, Ford closed down the narrow streets of Key West, Florida for a special event. The company asked X Games Rally gold medalist Tanner Foust and stunt driver Greg Tracy to drive head-to-head through the island town, while a crowd of spectators filmed the whole thing with their phones and cameras. Over 500 video clips were uploaded in total, and Ford used footage from 20 different citizen videographers to create this 60-second spot.
In Russia, foreign internet companies struggle to gain much influence. This preference for homegrown ventures arguably extends into crowdsourcing platforms. We caught up with Maxim Fedchenko, the CEO of GoDesigner, a platform that connects businesses with designers, to ask him about his platform and his thoughts on foreign companies looking to enter the Russian market.
Article on the development of the Crowd Creativity Industry in India
Shapeways announced today that it raised $6.2 million from Lux Capital, a New York venture capital firm. The company helps people create objects using 3D printing technology. It has printed over one million products in a number of different materials, ranging from “Elasto Plastic” to sterling silver.
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