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Users of San Francisco-based HealthRally can set up a “rally” for themselves or for a friend. In either case, they specify a fitness goal — quitting smoking, for example, or losing 10 pounds —...
New Trailer -VIdeo for "Fit To Print" featuring Stephen Janis, Al Neuharth, David Barstow, Candace Heckman, Ken Paulson, Geneva Overholser, Jim McMillan, McNelly Torres, John Marelius...
Take a Challenge, a privately owned start-up has been live for less than 12 months and is already on target for half a million visitors and is about to undergo a major upgrade. Using Indiegogo...
A research underway at Cambridge University is doing just that, by using the crowd to help individuals who have more trouble than most fitting into society: people with autistic spectrum...
Calamity Gym goes live on Rockethub.com on June 5th. Their crowd-funding campaign allows people to make pledges in exchange for fantastic deals on future memberships, training sessions and...
Here are some of the many start-ups targeting a niche crowd: Start-Ups: Sites like Fundable.com, Bolstr.com and EarlyShares.com. Game Developers:Gambitious targets game development and...
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, MapMyFitness is a health and fitness technology company that powers the internet's largest social network of fitness enthusiasts as well as a wide array of B2B...
Crucially, the pair decided that rather than attempting to raise funds from a conventional investor or games company, they would use the website Kickstarter to crowd source their budget. A...
Users of the free site can search GoRecess for yoga, pilates, cardio, and martial arts classes, among many other types, from among thousands listed across the US. Peer reviews are available to...
Said Ebio recently, “We need the support of those who truly believe in a healthy tomorrow for our children. I’m just a concerned dad, but I know that with the help of others who want to see our...
The company is starting with another first by launching via a Indiegogo.com crowdfunding campaign. ibodi will launch in phases beginning with a very unique nutrition line. ibodi will combine their...
The Ab Bed™ is a patented abdominal muscle toning machine designed to avoid placing any stress on the neck or back.Unlike other fitness devices,the Ab Bed™ allows patients rehabilitating from...
Dr. Oz is asking for your help. In a blog on doctoroz.com, he writes: Because so many merchants are using my name and image to sell their products, it’s hard for me to catch everything – so...
Inspired by RJMetrics’ blog post: “The Notorious CEO: Ten Startup 
Commandments from Biggies Smalls”. I realized that Biggie’s lyrics about how to be the perfect drug dealer fit perfectly with the yet unwritten rules of setting up a crowdfunding platform. Let’s see the ten crack commandments and what they entail for aspiring crowd funders…
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, about the company’s vision and business model. Samasource offers a “private crowd” as a model that fits between traditional outsourcing and crowdsourcing; the former providing advantages delivered through the organization of qualified labor and the latter delivering the greatest labor arbitrage advantage. Samasource employs a dedicated workforce, managed off-shore by trained service partners that provide quality control in designated work centers. Janah describes Samasource as “a distributive work company that employs crowdsourcing principles.”
Crowdsourcing has been firmly established as a valid and often preferable method for reaching organizational goals and accomplishing more with the same dollars. However, while crowdsourcing works very well for some problems, it may not be a viable solution for others. As the tools become available to crowdsource translation projects, it’s important to evaluate why organizations crowdsource in general and if those criteria are a good fit for crowdsourced translation initiatives.
In this article Calvin Scharffs addresses four benefits organizations receive from crowdsourcing in general: Cost savings, Increased Speed / Distributing Risk, Increased efficiencies and Brand involvement and evaluate if those benefits transfer effectively to translation projects.
There are four goals for the Health Tracking Network: *identify factors related to common illnesses; *promote members' health by enabling them to track their personal health, fitness, and...
Crowdsourcing is a perfect fit for universities because of the following reasons: 1. The Ready Availability of a Crowd 2. Universities Benefit from Crowdsourcing 3. Students Benefit from...
The debate about the definition of crowdsourcing continues and the conversation inevitably draws to what exactly is and what isn’t crowdsourcing. While it’s interesting and fun to reference historical examples of open collaboration, it can actually confuse the dialogue. Historical examples are useful though in enabling a clear comparison with what we have chosen today to define as crowdsourcing.
The Longitude Prize of 1714, offering £20,000 in an open call to anyone that could come up with a way for merchants and sailors to navigate at sea, won by John Harrison, the son of a carpenter; the Niagara Suspension Bridge prize of 1847 offering a $10 prize to the person who could successfully lay the first line across the Niagara won by a young boy using a kite; the project to compile the first Oxford English Dictionary in the late 1890’s that involved a group of scholars breaking the work into manageable chunks and enlisting the support of the crowd – the examples are numerous! While these examples and many more show that open calls to undefined groups with the offer of a monetary or altruistic award is nothing new, they don’t fit with our definition of crowdsourcing!
Crowdsourcing is trendy. Jumping on trends may be part of a human desire to fit in, or it may simply raise one’s status to know and to be able to use the latest technical jargon. Yet, despite the...
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