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We feature the second part of our conversation with Rose Spinelli of The CrowdFundamentals. We get a few pointers from Spinelli on how to make a crowdfunding campaign succeed, what things to avoid, and how to engage the media to cover your campaign.
LinkedIn last week named Freelancer.com Chief Executive Matt Barrie as one of 150 key worldwide opinion leaders. Barrie's first post on the network was an essay entitled How to Hack a...
This week’s news that researchers at Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland are publishing their results “so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes” represents a huge leap forward for Open Science.
The science community is traditionally a “closed” community, probably at the insistence of the large pharmaceutical organizations who insist on this as a method of protecting the intellectual property rights on any research they fund. While there have been moves within the science community to share research online as a means of “crowdsourcing” the work and speeding up discovery, science seems to be way behind other disciplines in actually getting the information out there.
While it makes perfect sense to many researchers to open up research projects for collaboration, the companies that sponsor and fund research laboratories worldwide are keen to keep the lid on research results and new developments due to the immense amounts of money to be made from new drugs, medical procedures and technological/industrial applications.
Cloud labor is quietly but surely changing the way businesses operate by making completing tasks cheaper, faster, and more manageable. Today, new platforms are attempting to bridge the gap between the freelance and crowdsource models of cloud labor, hoping to get the advantages of both and to minimize each other’s shortcomings.
We feature the first part of our conversation with crowdfunding consultant Rose Spinelli of The CrowdFundamentals. Spinelli is a new (but not inexperienced) player in the field who loves to help entrepreneurs tell their stories. In this part, we learn how Spinelli got into crowdfunding and what services she offers to potential customers; the second half of our conversation will be up tomorrow.
Have you ever wanted to accept donations and tell everyone who has supported your site or something else. Well now you can! Supporter Wall lets you accept donations and tell everyone who has donated. It is really simple to use and a brilliant idea.
StartupLi.st had the awesome opportunity to ask Sarah Cooper, the co-founder of Supporter Wall, a few questions about her new startup. Supporter Wall allows you to collect donations and showcase people who have donated! Keep reading on with this amazing interview.
In the first part of Crowdsourcing.org's interview with Dialogue Earth's Tom Masterman, we discussed issues related to the often-difficult decision whether or not to crowdsource the creation of video content. Part two of our interview focuses on considerations needed once the decision is made to move forward on a crowdsourcing project.
In this piece, Masterman answers Crowdsourcing.org’s questions on the issues of time to execute, project phases, and worker incentives and managing the interaction with the creative crowd.
Just nine months after the first crowd convention in San Francisco, a second event took place June 15 for the first time on European soil. Organized by Clickworker, 150 guests gathered for a day to hear 24 speakers and to discuss the market opportunities for crowdsourcing projects in Germany.
Jeff Howe looks back on his first encounter with the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and ventures a cautious look into the future. Five years have already passed since Jeff Howe's groundbreaking article in Wired magazine was published, which marked the beginning of the crowdsourcing movement. "Not a day passes that I am not surprised at how quickly the model developed and what great ideas emerged from this," Howe said in his keynote speech during in Berlin. Click here for German.
In an attempt to revolutionize the newspaper market, a British company started ViewsHound.com and designed an online portal where content is created and marketed by users. The digital publishing platform outsources all the tasks of publishing to users, with the exception of technology.
The design director for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Scott Thomas was an early pioneer on Kickstarter with his Designing Obama campaign. At a time when few crowdfunding programs had caught the public’s eye, and raising six-figure amounts through online pledges seemed just a pipe dream, he managed to pull in an impressive $84,613 for a historical book chronicling the art and design that helped propel Barack Obama into office.
Archability aims to help clients looking for architecture and design solutions, and to provide a project marketplace for skilled professionals. We caught up with the platform's founder and CEO, Livingstone Mukasa, to discuss the motivations behind his platform and why now, more than ever, it can become an essential service for thousands of individuals.
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!
In 2000, a college student named Jake Nickell entered a t-shirt design contest hosted by Dreamless.org, a (now defunct) online forum for web programmers and graphic designers. The winning design would become the official t-shirt of a Dreamless event in London. Out of about 100 entries, Nickell’s design won the contest.
Jacob DeHart, another college student with a passion for design, also entered the competition. Though his design didn’t win, he and Nickell (who had met through the forum) began to talk about how much fun it was to participate in the contest. “Dreamless was all about art and design and a lot of artists on there had 'battles' and shared/critiqued their work with each other,” wrote Nickell in a blog post entitled ‘ Threadless.com: The History’. “It was all around a very creative environment for hobbyists and professionals alike to unleash some creativity in their free time.” That got the two thinking: what if they held an ongoing design contest where the winning t-shirts would go on sale? Soon, Threadless was born.
With more than a 1,000 small businesses participating in The Small Business Challenge the for the past two months, the public gets the chance to select their top three companies with the most potential for growth and economic stimulation.
We continue our look at industry-leading research by our sister organization massolution. In this edition, we look at the four underlying models of engaging the crowd, and what makes them possible.
As with any emerging industry, new business models form, technology plays a different role and traditional organizational structures are challenged. As new models for online production and problem solving have proliferated over the last few years, Crowdsourcing platforms as we now collectively define them, we need to be able to organize, compare and contrast the different forms.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
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