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Though it only launched several months ago, Neighbor.ly has already had notable successes: Donors recently raised more than $400,000 to expand Kansas City's new bike-sharing system, Kansas...
Crowdfunding also offers benefits for the community as a whole. Shared projects give people a chance to work on their community-building skills. Brainstorming sessions provide inspiration and...
If you’re still convinced that building a developer community is what you really want to do, it is a must to live out your mission statement. In other words, if you’re a crowdsourcing community,...
ProPublica takes a warmer approach with its recently formed Patient Harm Community Facebook group. Here’s the question that ProPublica poses to the group: “Were you or a loved one harmed in a...
With the expert resources of organizations like GlobalGiving, and innovative pioneers like PepsiCo, corporations engaged in CSR and philanthropy will be equipped to achieve their business...
Noesis Energy is using the "freemium" model of giving away its software and then developing services to charge customers for. The idea is that efficiency consultants and building...
Crowd sourcing demands a crowd. To this end, developing a basic communications plan requires two insights: insight on your audience and insights on when to engage them. Your communications...
When the entire vision is realized, Teliathrion will consist of 3 basic sections – a geodesic dome cluster, a residential area comprised entirely of different sized yurts, and the forest garden....
The winning idea for Katherine, the member who posted the request, was to start a university competition that would solicit design plans for their new Parish Hall, which will house a school,...
Spacehive aims to shake up planning by allowing anyone to post projects to improve public spaces. Whether it's a community centre, park or a revamped high street, anyone can take the idea to...
Scientists and engineers from GE Global Research and MIT will develop a “crowd-driven ecosystem for evolutionary design” – CEED for the vehicleforge.mil program. This ecosystem will create an...
With enough community support, the new Coworking Wiki will serve as an aggregate for testimonials, news reports, and study data; offer advice for new coworking spaces on how to gauge interest in...
Based in Milwaukee, WI, CraftFund, LLC is the craft beer crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding represents an alternative source of capital that is more consistent with breweries' brand and...
There are a few instances when crowdsourcing just isn’t a fit and these are as follows: You need things to be very specific or follow tight criteria You are working very quickly or flexibly...
The team of innovators came up with a simple idea: a person invests in the community by buying a tile for $100 through Mosaic. The tiles, which are not physical tiles but a symbol representing a...
A truly transformational opportunity involves using social media to reconstitute the way we build and distribute products.One car maker,called Local Motors, has done just that. Using...
Moderated by Chris Grams, partner and president of New Kind and author of The Ad-Free Brand, the November 2011 Open Your World Forum webcast is a discussion between Michael Tiemann (Red Hat’s...
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The Minecraft team was apparently approached by LEGO to submit a design to the plastic building block company’s Cuusoo site. Cuusoo is a crowdsourcing site, sort of like Kickstarter, where people...
In this guest post, Lingotek CEO Rob Vandenberg explains how localized content management systems can attract and retain a crowd of community members.
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