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In addition to winning the award for best Employment Site of the Year, Freelancer.com also won the People’s Choice Award in the same category. Led by veteran tech entrepreneur Matt Barrie,...
CEO Nick Such and his three co-founders created BuildingLayer by combining the “crowdsourcing” spirit of Wikipedia with the indispensability of Google Maps, all in an effort to solve a problem a...
An Australian youth-oriented community website and outsourcing business Freelancer.com have both taken out gongs in this year’s Webby Awards, along with giants including Pinterest and Facebook....
Freelancer.com's "Expose our Logo" contest challenges its 3 million users from 234 countries, regions and territories to promote the Freelancer.com hummingbird logo to as many...
Online crowdsourcing contests like Pepsi Refresh Project are becoming increasingly popular with young activists. Chad Bullock, who just won $250,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Project shares his tips...
Since its founding, it has been SLOOH’s mission to promote scientific enlightenment. Sharing a view through a powerful telescope trained on the light of a distant world inspires people to celebrate...
On peoplefund.it, you can find good ideas that might just change the world (for the better). Then you can help make them happen with your money in return for your choice of reward. It’s quick to...
BuildingLayer is a crowdsourced map of the indoor world. The site serves as a platform for aggregating existing floorplan data, while also allowing users to create and submit indoor maps based on...
Towards that end, City 2.0 offers individuals the tools to design such a city, making the kind of choices around transportation, energy, public space, housing, and law that are usually made only...
pledge4good lets you advocate for a favorite nonprofit by inviting friends to make a donation when events from your life occur (e.g. you bowl a strike or a favorite basketball team wins). On our...
Ross Dawson shares some of the crucial ideas that have come out of interactive discussions on crowdsourcing from recent conferences in Europe.
This guest post comes to Crowdsourcing.org from Brian Koles of ChallengePost, a platform for contests and competitions in software development and open government. He offers us half a dozen tips for conducting a public competition that will get results.
Reinvent Green, the hackathon spearheaded by NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, came and went this past weekend, but voting for the people’s choice award is open and happening here. They first covered the...
Crowdsourcing.org recently interviewed Ken Clark, co-chair of the Arizona Competitive Districts Coalition, which was founded to provide the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission with support for two important aspects of redistricting via crowdsourcing and a web platform called ArizonaRedistricting.com. First, to act as an idea generator for the Commission, and second, to serve as a watchdog to enhance transparency.
Earlier this year, Yannig Roth began to list all the creative crowdsourcing initiatives he could find, applied to Interbrand’s ranking of the 100 Best Global Brands. The result was this living post on his blog, which he's given us permission to re-post here.
Although the phenomenon is still in its infancy, I expect to see the rise of individuals and the emergence of small teams to be an important trend in the next few years. The bigger firms will feel the increased pressure from agile teams of individuals that can operate faster and get things done quicker. Furthermore, talented individuals, knowing that they can find good job prospects online, will start putting higher pressure on their employers: either there is a more equitable share of the surplus, or the value-producing individuals will move into their own ventures.
Every business in the world can learn from these top brands who are tapping into the power of crowdsourcing to create brand value.
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