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document Crowdfunding
Among the highlights of the Guardian Activate Summit are as follows:
On Kickstarter and crowdsourcing:
“If people haven’t played with Kickstarter, I highly recommend it. It allowed movies...
blog Crowd CreativityIn the first year of writing a PhD thesis, you’re basically asked to define key terms and to set up a research question. I’m particularly interested in crowdsourcing, and more particularly...
article CrowdfundingIt was the dedication to research and planning that helped the Activyst team develop a successful crowdsourcing campaign on the Indiegogo platform. They launched their first campaign in mid-March...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationONE is interesting because it doesn’t actually want your money. Instead, the organization asks its more than 2.5 million members for their collective voice. The ONE app, designed by @radical.media,...
document Open Innovation
Ideas competitions appear to be a promising tool for crowdsourcing and open innovation processes, especially for business-to-business software companies. Active participation of potential lead...
document Crowd Creativity, Tools
Wikistream is a place where you can witness the crowdsourcing process in Wikipedia.
Here’s how the project explains itself:
"Hopefully wikistream provides a hint of just how active...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe growth of online and mobile shopping has contributed to this slump in sales. Home delivery has been growing at double digits. Customers are using coupons, local shops and offers to get the...
document Distributed KnowledgeDuring the crowdsourcing project, which has been going on almost two years, over 400 members from around the world have taken part in creating the community opera and thousands of people are...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsWith this partnership, the resources of our nationwide membership will support the Disaster Relief on Facebook initiative to power sharing with friends to help individuals and communities prepare...
document Distributed KnowledgeAs Barry L Bayus noted, crowdsourcing is not really new. Public contests have a long history. With respect to focus groups, crowdsourcing is usually faster and cheaper. More important,...
article ToolsPaul Pluschkell, CEO and Founder at Spigit, took the time to answer some questions about crowdsourcing, mobile and what is next for Spigit an innovation engine that drives growth through...
article Distributed KnowledgeGoogle hopes that the Activity Stream will encourage Map Maker users to add even more content, making Google Maps more and more accurate. Crowdsourcing maps has worked for Google so far, and the...
article CrowdfundingThe prevalence of crowdsourced funding for startup businesses and charitable projects is on the rise, and local residents are using the online platforms for everything from video game production to...
article Crowd Creativity"You're already seeing bands crowdsourcing Instagrams for their videos," Tittel said. "There's no reason that won't happen with brands. There are tons of opportunities...
article Tools
Other stats listed by the mobile photo sharing app tackle the specific ways users engage with Instagram. 40 million photos are posted daily to the service,for instance,and its users manage to...
article Crowdfunding, ToolsCrowdfunding statistics and trends presented in this report are based on over 1,000 U.S. businesses that used EquityNet from 2007 to 2012 to seek equity-based crowdfunding from accredited Reg D...
document Open Innovation, ToolsCan crowdsourcing markets scale? MTurk can tag a thousand images within a few hours. But what will happen if we place one million images in the market? Will there be enough labor to handle all of...
document Distributed Knowledge
HarassMap was featured by Human Rights First as an innovative use of social media to expose and prevent violence against women. The platform allows women to report sexual harassment by email,...
document Crowd Creativity
From competitions and crowdsourcing to apps and video clips, brands are finding all sorts of ways to instil a sense of pride and nostalgia in people across the UK.
Here are some...