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How Twitter, Google Docs helped thousands of stranded Mumbaikars find their way back #MumbaiRain
article Tools

Mumbaikars are known for their resilience. Yet another example of their fighting spirit was on display yesterday when thousands of people stranded in heavy rain came to each others help. This time...

Tim SatterthwaiteSep 06, 2012 05:01 am GMT1548 views
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How Twitter, Google Docs helped thousands of stranded Mumbaikars find their way back #MumbaiRain
Long Islanders Use Facebook, Google Docs to Find Loved Ones Post-Sandy
article Crowdfunding

Whether looking for a skillful barber or a top mobile app, crowdsourcing has become a staple of information gathering in the digital age. So, it’s no surprise that Long Island communities, greatly...

Samuel BennettNov 02, 2012 01:10 pm GMT954 views
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Long Islanders Use Facebook, Google Docs to Find Loved Ones Post-Sandy
Creating dynamic visualisations using Google Forms and Google Gadgets
document Tools

Here are the process on how to crowdsource data through an online form: 1. Set up your spreadsheet 2. Setting up a Google Form 3. Visualising the results with Google Gadgets 4. Embedding...

Fritz SchaeferMar 06, 2012 12:28 pm GMT2318 views
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Creating dynamic visualisations using Google Forms and Google Gadgets
Netizens can now #rescuePH via Googledocs
document Distributed Knowledge

"The challenge now is how to get rescuers to the area," Juan said. Juan urged everyone to be accurate in reporting information, stressing that the crowdsourcing effort is an...

Harshida PatelAug 07, 2012 01:15 pm GMT425 views
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Netizens can now #rescuePH via Googledocs
Employees Already Crowdsourcing a Myspace History
document Distributed Knowledge

WMyspace employees believe that they need to tell their story to help make sure something like this doesn’t happen again. This is not about News Corp executives, analysts, or other armchair...

Marco TorquatiAug 14, 2011 03:09 pm GMT1260 views
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Employees Already Crowdsourcing a Myspace History
Could You Write with the World Looking Over Your Shoulder? One Novelist is Giving It a Try
article Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

Silvia Hartmann will ultimately get tons of suggestions and opinions from her fans and curious bystanders. With readers involved in every step of the writing process, she’s creating a brand new...

Jayne AnnSep 20, 2012 07:42 am GMT6888 views
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Could You Write with the World Looking Over Your Shoulder? One Novelist is Giving It a Try
Crowdfunding around the world
article Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding Survey around the world The purpose of this survey is to collect data about the following: - which Crowdfunding Platforms are most used around the world; - which areas receive...

José MarinhoFeb 16, 2013 11:51 am GMT1434 views
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Crowdfunding around the world
Pair Uses Crowd-Sourcing to Track the Missing in Egypt
document Distributed Knowledge

"Although the spreadsheet has already been viewed nearly 10,000 times, simply accessing it is a challenge for most people in Egypt. The government cut off Internet access in the country late...

Cristina CaineFeb 03, 2011 01:13 am GMT985 views
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Pair Uses Crowd-Sourcing to Track the Missing in Egypt
It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy
document Distributed Knowledge

In education we must let the dedicated community of educators currently on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Edudemic create a crowdsourced social media policy that any school can adopt....

Luis Enrique MoralesMay 05, 2012 10:17 pm GMT888 views
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It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy
The Anatomy of a Crowdsourcing Platform
document Distributed Knowledge

Crowdsourcing has be come a growing market in the current Internet. Thousands of workers categorize images, write articles or perform other small tasks on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk...

Carl EspostiApr 22, 2011 06:45 pm GMT1806 views
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The Anatomy of a Crowdsourcing Platform
The Age of Transparency: The Crowd as a Watchdog
Distributed Knowledge

It is human nature to want to denounce injustices and expose wrongdoing - these intrinsic desires can motivate a crowd to play "watchdog"....and so we have seen the rise of crowdsourcing platforms that provide some degree of monitoring, with the goal of reporting irregularities. Sound like a police state? Well, it depends on what is studied and what is revealed! 

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Claudia PelzerMay 27, 2011 05:52 am GMT5248 views
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Tip: How to live blog a public conference session without going crazy
GiveForward Infographic
document Crowdfunding

GiveForward provides free, personalized fundraising webpages to raise money for out-of-pocket medical expenses. Since 2008, their user-friendly platform has empowered thousands of friends and...

Adam FrazerJul 26, 2011 10:39 pm GMT1996 views
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GiveForward Infographic
Crowdsourcing remembrance: help us research one dead Canadian
document Distributed Knowledge

We have no way of knowing which name will be tweeted at 11:11 a.m. — this is a bit of a leap of faith, but I like the idea that we give for just one day an identity to this as -yet Unknown...

Harshida PatelNov 11, 2011 03:15 pm GMT572 views
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Crowdsourcing remembrance: help us research one dead Canadian
UN Turns to Crowdsourcing to Fight AIDS
document Distributed Knowledge

UNAIDS realizes that they also need to reach out to youth who do not have access to computers. Gabriel Adeyemo wrote for the CrowdOutAIDS blog about his experience doing outreach to young people in...

Claire MackayNov 16, 2011 07:55 am GMT774 views
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UN Turns to Crowdsourcing to Fight AIDS
Smartsheet: the deadliest app in town?
document Tools

One serious contender is Smartsheet, a spreadsheet-like tool that’s big on online collaboration. In 2009 Smartsheet introduced “Smartsourcing”, a feature that allows users to design and post...

Benjamin FosselDec 06, 2011 07:24 am GMT1194 views
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Smartsheet: the deadliest app in town?
CrowdOutAIDS
site Distributed Knowledge / Social (or Peer) Production

CrowdOutAIDS is a collaborative online project to develop a new way for UNAIDS to work with young people. It uses online tools to help young people come together to crowdsource a UNAIDS youth...

Archenette EvangelioDec 20, 2011 10:12 am GMT541 views
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CrowdOutAIDS
Anti-ACTA protest to sweep across Europe tomorrow
document Distributed Knowledge

Using a network of Facebook event pages, a wiki and a spreadsheet in Google Docs, the anti-censorship group Fight for the Future is planning to launch large-scale crowd-sourced protests on...

Claire MackayFeb 11, 2012 06:22 am GMT920 views
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Anti-ACTA protest to sweep across Europe tomorrow
Open source ‘blocks’ connect the offline world with the web
document Crowdfunding

Ninja Blocks, an open source hardware project based in San Francisco that aims to provide “a two-way bridge between the things in your life and the web services you use every day.” Having already...

Tim SatterthwaiteFeb 14, 2012 02:07 pm GMT881 views
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Open source ‘blocks’ connect the offline world with the web
Crowdsourcing Historical Research - Claudine Chionh
video Distributed Knowledge

Founders and Survivors is an Australian Research Council-funded research project to build biographies of the approx. 70,000 convicts transported to Tasmania, and their descendants. The project is...

Fritz SchaeferMar 04, 2012 02:29 am GMT1159 views
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Crowdsourcing Historical Research - Claudine Chionh
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