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According to Jessie Paul, a marketing expert, CEO of Paul Writer Strategic Advisory, a marketing advisory firm and the author of the book No Money Marketing, " Crowdsourcing provides access...
In a statement quoted by the New York Times, Julian Assange gave some more details on his co-writers, which he interviewed for his TV program on Russian TV channel RT: “In March 2012 I...
It's an interesting debate on crowdsourcing vs. smartsourcing. It argues that it depends on the objectives of the activity and the desired result as to whether crowdsourcing should be the way...
Community members joined the crowd to help develop a future neighborhood that focused on the “triple bottom line” of “people, planet, profit.“ Cooltown used Ning as the online space for gathering...
Jessie Paul is a marketing expert, CEO of Paul Writer Strategic Advisory, a marketing advisory firm and the author of the book No Money Marketing. She was formerly Chief Marketing Officer, Wipro...
As open-source software developers learned long ago, asking a pool of people to create something can be faster, cheaper, and more accurate than putting a project in the hands of individuals....
Renee Hopkins, author of a chapter on crowdsourcing in the new book, Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, defined crowdsourcing as the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an...
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A small gathering congregated in São Paulo this weekend, ahead of the first International Conference on Crowdsourcing, being hosted tomorrow at the offices of one of Brazil’s largest telcos, Vivo. Having not long returned from Europe, presenting at CrowdConvention in Berlin in June, Europe’s first ever Crowdsourcing event [link], the privilege once more be part of a small quorum of crowdsourcing evangelists sharing their insights and experience to another group of inquisitive on-lookers and practitioners alike, this time south of the equator, is one that is not overlooked.
Under the enthusiastic and tenacious leadership of Marina Miranda, Managing Director of mutopo, Latin America the event is sure to be a success. Based out of mutopo’s São Paulo Office, Miranda has secured contributions from enterprise sponsors Telefônica, vivo, Microsoft BizSpark, Tecnisa and Boa Vista and raised ticket sales of ~300, great for a first event in a new market. Miranda has also been able to secure a notable cast of speakers representing both local companies and the international market.
mutopo’s core business is social production with a mission to help organizations think through crowdsourcing applications and to support the implementation of initiatives often involving the introduction of other crowdsourcing tool providers to help
Brazil, having experienced a huge uptake over the last twelve months both in the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding and in terms of the number of new platforms launched, was ready and primed for its first event. The last twelve months have seen an increased adoption of crowdsourcing as a model to support open innovation, as a model for the production of creative works and for solutions requiring the crowd to collect and organize information.
Crowdsourced legislation does exist: the Icelandic parliament, for example, created a new constitution last year based in part on crowdsourced input, and an alternative to SOPA called OPEN was...
Our mission: 1/ propose a dedicated website and an audience to unpublished authors 2/ federate a strong community of enthusiats and supporters (investors) on new book projects 3/ publish and...
Ross Dawson shares some of the crucial ideas that have come out of interactive discussions on crowdsourcing from recent conferences in Europe.
Though Sweeney already had the boat and the books (people give him books, he said, as soon as they hear he’s a librarian), the Story Sailboat needed new sails to be safe for longer trips and...
Recently, Seth Godin tested the market for his next book on Kickstarter. And KL Going's Fat Kid Rules the World is another Y.A. book-to-movie project (movie by Matthew Lillard) that's...
According to Amanda Barbara, Development Director at PubSlush: "Pubslush will allow authors, agents, and publishers to trend towards a more informed publishing process. Publishing is such...
Hine challenged Zooppa's global community of creative talent to produce ads promoting his debut novel Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch - an edgy corporate satire that reflects on the challenges...
The book excels in opening the mind regarding what will be possible through crowdsourcing in the future.
The crowdsource initiative will launch on Friday at 11am PST with a chat on the book’s Facebook page. Readers and other interested parties can submit questions to the authors, who will select 10 to...
Anyone can enter a short story in the competition for free and the public can vote on their favourites. If you wish to submit a short story or vote for one, start by creating a free account at...
One of the messages that the author appreciated most from Arianna Huffington’s book was her call for increased civic engagement from citizens ourselves as she did balance her argument asking for...
1book140 is an expansion of a project Howe began a year ago at Wired, where he previously served as a contributing editor, called One Book, One Twitter. “What if everyone on Twitter read the same...
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.
