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document Distributed KnowledgeThe fact that the White House has its own YouTube Channel is one proof that the White House turns to the public as well. President Obama wants to reach out to the public the best way he can....
document Crowdfunding
"The President is correct in putting the brain on the national map. It is revolutionary that he has used the phrase 'brain mapping,' a core pursuit of brain research. GGI is...
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From a user’s point of view, this is an incredible opportunity. When you look at the bigger picture, this is a huge milestone for Reddit as a community forum. It honestly means there is no limit...
document Crowdfunding
JOBS Act will have positive influence on job creation through equity-based crowdfunding and lead to a new wave of business startups.
"The JOBS Act will help ignite economic growth by...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe Obama Administration has said it will contact the organizer of a high-profile anti-SOPA petition, along with a random sample of those who signed it, to a conference call to discuss the issue...
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The Facebook ads encourage people to contact congress in support of President Barack Obama’s jobs plan. The ads link to a Facebook page featuring video of the TV spot, and that page links to the...
Crowd CreativityAn article crowdsourcing.org user Harshida submitted earlier today caught my eye: the Obama for America campaign is soliciting designs from artists “across the country” for a poster in support of President Obama’s jobs plan — but the winning designers won’t get a dime. Instead, the three winners will receive framed prints of their design signed by the President.
Yes, you read that correctly; Obama’s 2012 campaign, which has raised over $86 million dollars thus far, won’t pay the country’s talented graphic designers to use their work. Even worse, all the submissions that don’t win will still “become the property of Obama for America,” reveals the fine print.
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document Crowdfunding
The bipartisan legislation is already strongly backed by the White House and has support from both major political parties. The JOBS Act passed in the Senate with a 73-26 vote, and the revised...
document Crowdfunding
The JOBS act exempts companies with less than $1 billion a year in revenues from some disclosure and governance requirements as they make initial public stock offerings. It allows companies to...
document Crowdfunding
According to Maurice Lopes, EarlyShares' President, EarlyShares.com is extremely proud, honored and humbled that the Startup America Partnership (http://www.s.co) chose us as their featured...
document Crowdfunding
Josh Light, has said the company’s chief marketing officer, Sterling Morris, is a talented filmmaker and they plan to make a documentary of their travels, which will be for sale. It can be...
article Distributed KnowledgeMore recently, Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” feature has become a popular way of crowdsourcing interviews with public figures — including Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
Lost in the celebration was that the Senate Armed Service Committee, just days before, recommended drastically cutting back Darpa’s budget — and singled out the crowdsourced vehicle project as a...
video Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationDuring this demonstration, President Obama may have give Darpa all the compliments regarding their program. This shows nothing but positiveness.
But on the part of the Senate Armed Service...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools
Twitter will invite a group of highly active and engaged Twitter users (curators) to help choose questions and comments both prior to and during the event.These curators will be a diverse group...
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The Obama for America campaign is also crowdsourcing for ideas for what people would like to see on the President’s Facebook page and on @BarackObama‘s Twitter feed.
Distributed KnowledgeResearchers took a look at President Obama's open government initiatives and found that current taxonomy comes up short in describing public sector crowdsourcing efforts.
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Cloud Labor, Distributed KnowledgeMozilla and PBS are joining forces to use some new tools to ask the crowd to help translate President Obama's State of the Union address into a multitude of languages.
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In a crowdsourced interview session, Obama answers questions about SOPA and UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer.