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The application was developed through a partnership between the MBTA and ELERTS, creators of an industry-first personal safety social network for emergency notification. ELERTS is creating better...
Despite the rise of crowdsourcing, there are a number of people that are still skeptic about the whole use of the word and its general philosophy. With this KRC research, businesses and individuals...
“The idea was that you wouldn’t buy wine without knowing its source, so we wanted to educate Californians about where their drinking water came from,” says Gustavson, an Illinois native who just...
“People are so excited about new discoveries, new ideas, and science, but a person at home has no way to feel like they’re a part of that, except for reading along,” says founder Matt Salzberg....
Rick Chen, co-founder of local crowd funding platform Pozible, says he believes the US laws are the first of their kind and he expects Australia will follow suit. “I think Australia will hold...
WedPics' unique digital album also allows wedding guests to upload their photos from their digital cameras, so it isn't limited to just smartphones. Whether it’s your friend with an...
Stanford's Michael Bernstein spends a lot of time thinking about crowdsourcing and its potential in addition to actually running experiments with crowds. Recently at CrowdConf 2012, I sat down with him for a few minutes to pick his brain on what he sees in the future for crowdsourcing.
When it comes to bonding with mom, nothing beats shopping, Gen Z girls say. With over 3,000 total responses, “shopping til they drop” was their number one activity with 52% of the vote, followed by...
Located in London, Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Tate's "Write your own label" project is a crowdsourcing project inviting visitors to see their own ideas...
Crowdsourcing tools, like IdeaScale, have gone mainstream and have become an integral part of how we listen to customers. And perhaps the best example is in seeing how FEMA (a government...
"Crowdfunding: go equity or go home"....okay, so this is not to say that various forms of crowdfunding (e.g. 'pledge', lending, revenue-share) are without valid niches. Pledge crowdfunding, for example, can be fantastic for various fan-centric projects. But equity-based crowdfunding is at the center of crowdfunding's future ecosystem for typical high-risk startups.
This is purely a mathematical reality. There are a proliferation of crowdfunding platforms emerging, many with investment models destined for niches at best, and the 'dust bin' at worst. I wanted to give some clarity, as many haven't thought through the macro picture. Again, this is a discussion aimed at early stage 'angel' style investments in risky startups.
Brad Powell is the founder of Microfundo and the whole concept behind this new crowdfunding platform is one that breaks away from what we currently see. Instead of funding artists and having...
Natalia Garcia had a dream to travel to 12 world cities to see how it would be possible to live in a place designed for people – and not for cars. Natalia is a journalist and cyclist from São Paulo, Brazil. And Sao Paulo, is a really terrible place for cyclists and pedestrians. So, she decided to turn her idea into reality, and left her job at Editora Abril to launch the project Cidades para Pessoas (Cities for People), a dream that materialized through crowdfunding.
Innovation is no guarantee for profit. But it motivates people inside and outside the company. It generates buzz and comments and improves the business image, said Busarello. “See the iPad's case, for example. Tecnisa was the first Brazilian company to adopt it as a marketing tool. One iPad for each salesperson. We didn't earn money with this action, but it generated satisfaction for the team”.
If crowdmapping catches on, it has the potential to become a sort of geographical version of Wikipedia, crammed with location-based facts and figures, becoming a reference point not only for what...
When I coined the word crowdsourcing five years ago, the phenomenon itself hardly existed. Oh sure, there were a few glaring examples: Wikipedia, of course, and that massive hurly burly of user-generated content known as MySpace. NASA, I recall, was already experimenting with using volunteers to measure asteroid craters. But the original article was, in a sense, an act of prognostication. I was saying, "This is how things will be." It was a gamble, and it happened to pay off.
A lot changed between 2006 and 2008, when my book was published. In writing the book I faced an entirely new challenge. I no longer had to predict the future; I had to analyze and interpret the present. Books force you to create taxonomies by their very structure: Chapters are subdivisions of a larger subject.
The problem was that examples of crowdsourcing now proliferated across every domain of human endeavor. When asked what couldn't be crowdsourced, I used to answer: a restaurant. Then one day a Washington Post reporter called to ask me what I thought about a new--you guessed it--crowdsourced restaurant. My answer to that question these days? Everything can be crowdsourced. I figure it's best to play it safe.
In trying to bring some coherence to this dizzying variety of online collaborations I came up with four basic categories:
The most important thing in regarding Fiat’s development of the Fiat Mio (translated: ‘My Fiat”), the world’s first ever open source car, is not the participation of the crowd itself, but the fact that, for the first time, the auto industry initiated the endeavor as an open source project and release it for everybody under the Creative Commons license.
Fiat’s choice resulted in an open forum and marked a move to an approach for automobile production that is normally dominated by a culture of secrecy. How revolutionary and subversive was the adoption of this approach? The specification of the Mio is now available for anyone to see -- an open work that challenges the traditions of automobile manufacture.
So when the customer experience begins with the design of a car and not just the ownership experience and the role of the manufacturer becomes the orchestrator amongst customers and engineering teams, what impact does that have on the value of the brand in a world of open source knowledge? Is the brand enhanced or devalued?
As public portals for information sharing improve, fraud and waste scandals that were traditionally broken by whistleblowers inside government will increasingly be sussed out of aggregated data...
Crowdsourcing is clearly not going away. Any company that believes it can operate with a closed-walls philosophy is missing the point of social business. The crowd, or groups external to the firm, provide interesting, sometimes path-breaking, sometimes huge numbers of ideas, insights and solutions. Crowdsourcing is part of the future of making and selling things. No question.
Still, there are a couple of questions niggling away at the back of my mind. There are more than two but these two beg an answer.
The first is how do we improve crowdsourcing? We know it's better than relying solely on internal resources for a variety of tasks, from routine to innovatory, but if crowdsourcing is to become a fixed operational resource, a part of the furniture so to speak, then we need to know how to measure and improve the process. That's akin to saying how do we professionalise it.
The second question is where does it lead us to? CNN recently announced it will upgrade its iReport crowdsourced news services. The end result will be a social network for news, a community that simultaneously creates, distributes and consumes news. This makes perfect sense. We are already blurring the line between production, marketing and consumption but we need to think where this is headed in other segments of the market.
There are many ways of crowdsourcing, and Prof. Cathy Davidson says that hers was simply to extend the concept of peer leadership to grading. The blogosphere was convinced that either she or her...
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