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Crowdsortium aims to serve their members with high-impact channels for media outreach and amplification. Not only will they be providing a space for blogs, articles and videos to be posted on the...
Slides from Carl Esposti's plenary discussion of enterprise crowdsourcing at CrowdConf2011.
Crowdsourcing.org interviews David Alan Grier, first VP IEEE Computer Society, and Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University, where he...
Jan Kasprzycki-Rosikon, Managing Director at MillionYou and the main organizer of the Warsaw Global one-day Crowdsourcing Summit answered a few questions for Crowdsourcing.org in advance of the event.
IndieGoGo's Director of Marketing Erica Labovitz discusses extensive information on Crowdfunding and details of how campaigns work and are successful on IndieGoGo.
This article, written exclusively for Crowdsourcing.org, comes from a crowd member. We asked the new crowdsourced blog writing service, Blogmutt, to write a post, so Blogmutt CEO Scott Yates turned to one of Blogmutt's best writers to craft a post for us here. The writer is Ruth Bremer.
It's shaping up to be a big week for the crowd -- there's at least two big Crowdfunding gatherings happening here in the U.S., the Senate will hear about the benefits of Open Innovation in HIV / AIDS treatment and we've got a fresh podcast with Clickworker up (and just recorded another one today).
But before we get too far ahead, let's take a moment to round up a few of the crowdsourcing headlines we might have missed over the last 7 days or so:
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.org can now be found on Google News, the iTunes store and beyond. Now we want your help in continuing to grow, and raising all our profiles in the process.
Interview with COO of WeGoLook.com, Robin Smith, discussing specifics about crowdsouring her 7,800 nationwide "Lookers" to perform custom tasking, capture dynamic data and complete...
Creative Barcode's CEO Maxine Horn writes in to discuss Kickstarter's recent naming in a patent infringement lawsuit. She dismisses the claim that Kickstarter acted as a sales agent for Formlabs' Form 1 3D printer and offers a potential solution to such legal tussles in the future.
A comprehensive outline of Best Practices for Crowdfunding Portals operating under the JOBS Act in the U.S. For more information, see our guest post from author Scott Purcell via the source link...
Every business in the world can learn from these top brands who are tapping into the power of crowdsourcing to create brand value.
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.
An interesting article and an extensive comment stream challenging the merits of crowdsourcing.
A good read on how crowdsourcing drives participation within communities and let people feel recognized and heard.
A start for those looking to learn about the fundamentals of crowdsourcing.
Tom Erickson, designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York, believes in crowdsourcing as a force capable to bring to citizens the ability to change the landscape of their cities and effectively create a more intelligent and livable environment. In his paper Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions, Mr. Erickson explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what he called “geocentric crowdsourcing.”
In his opinion, rather than people as passive subjects of increasingly ‘smart’ systems developed by tech companies, the vision is that smarter cities can offer a variety of ways for humans to act as first class participants, contributing their abilities to sense, analyze and act. Mr. Erickson focuses his research on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively: originally focused on online systems, the scope of his work has expanded to include real world environments ranging from rooms to cities.
Responding to some questions from Crowdsourcing.org, Mr. Erickson explained the concept of Geocentric Crowdsourcing and his practical application to the cities.
I am not a writer. I am not a journalist. I am a software developer and I built LocalByUs. I may not be a writer, but writing software is a lot like writing a book: you write it, refine it, and publish it. You don’t know if anyone will buy it, read it or like it. It’s not easy.
Writing LocalByUs was challenging. At times during the last six months, I coded away like a madwoman, making quick progress on the site. At other times, I stared at the screen, blocked, stumped by impossible-to-solve issues — that, of course, seem simple in retrospect. Tough as it was, it was also fun. Working through all the problems, I have learned more in the last six months than I did in the last six years. But when I started, I did not know that building LocalByUs would be a worthwhile venture. So why build it?
I like my local newspaper. It hasn’t gone out of business… yet. Experts think the days of local newspapers are numbered. People search the web for the information they used to get from their local newspaper. Some newspapers have morphed into online local newspapers. AOL’s Patch is trying an online newspaper model at a big scale. By all reports, it is failing as well. But most of what the local newspaper reports — school sports, business news, police blotter, neighborhood association news, local politics and so on — could very well be crowdsourced.
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