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Foldingstory is really easy to use, after registering and activating your account you have three options: Read, Create or Add. If you want to Read, you can read a completed story or an unfinished...
#1 The power of distributed thinking. Using networks of human minds to solve problems goes a step beyond crowdsourcing techniques for performing work tasks. #2 The power of gaming. The prospect of...
Cadavar Exquis or Exquisite Corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition either by following a rule (e.g.The...
Two weeks ago, we published a piece that discussed the state of open innovation (OI). In order to get the most current information for my story, I spoke with several executives from a number of leading OI companies. Today, I am sharing my very enlightening conversation with InnoCentive’s Vice President of Marketing Steve Bonadio.
State regulators are holding up the first case of "crowdfunding fraud" as cause for concern about the JOBS Act. Crowdsourcing.org's Eric Mack chased down the story to stare deep into the eyes of this evil and lived to tell about it.
When Seth Priebatsch, CEO at SCVNGR, delivered his audaciously provocative presentation at TED he was talking about how to motivate the crowd when money isn’t the currency. You can call the approach of rewarding certain online behaviors (or penalizing others) 'Gamification', 'Game Mechanics', or 'Social Rewards', all are being equally banded about and are receiving lots of buzz. Whatever you call it, it’s all about the motivation of the masses...we’ll call it Gamification.
The options for presenting a range of digital incentives and rewards is theoretically infinite but the primary design elements include motivational triggers such as: positive (and possibly immediate) feedback (e.g. a sound that quickly becomes recognizable upon the successful completion of a task); noticeable advancement through the “game” upon successfully performing the work (e.g. progression to a new level); awarding points, badges, and status levels, etc. (see Gowalla, GetGlue or Foursquare).
Gamification however can be about much more than just driving online engagement by awarding users tokens that represent their various levels of achievement – some refer to this type of consumer engagement as 'Pouring Chocolate on Broccoli' (a very Germanic expression meaning to simply spice something up that is a bit boring). Used in this manner, the greater potential of using Gamification is somewhat lost.
With crowdfunding becoming an ever more popular way to raise start up costs for businesses and projects all over the world, Crowdsourcing.org decided to take a look at ten cases where crowdfunding has been put to a benevolent use.
The rise in the number of people online — not just in the developed world, but in poorer countries too — is transforming the world into a truly “global village.” As a result, those who have internet access have more opportunities than ever. Perhaps the most fitting example to kick off our look at philanthropic instances of crowdfunding is AHumanRight.org, a non-government organization whose mission is to ensure “global access to information as a human right.” The charitable group employed the crowdfunding method in an attempt to buy the high capacity communications satellite Terrestar 1 from its bankrupt owners. AHumanRight.org planned to provide internet access to some of the poorest people on the planet, free of charge.
This editorial is part of a series of interviews with the most successful crowd-funded campaigns on Kickstarter. The full series will feature experience and insider tips from top 20 campaign founders.
Outspoken is the world’s first crowdfunding platform devoted exclusively to the cause of child sexual abuse. It is the brainchild of Commit 65, a 65-day world record flight attempt campaign that...
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