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The bottom line is that the secrecy that newspapers used to operate under no longer works. Not only is there more competition for stories, but mainstream media outlets no longer have a monopoly...
Here are some ways to get ahead of the social media curve: 1.Use Video-Twitter and Facebook may be the mainstream marketing platforms, but video is grossly underused. 2.Ask Questions-At its...
Anyone can build a loosely affiliated, unstructured crowd -- a mob. The key to successfully employing a crowdsourcing model in a b2b/professional services type space is to advance beyond the realm...
This paper summarizes recent discussions about Citizen journalism: its various forms and coming of age; its role in international news; the opportunities for a more democratic practice of...
The shift to online media in the past two decades comes with two important realities: (1) online revenue increases are smaller than print media decreases; and (2) mainstream media are being...
Serving nearly 100 million users, LinkedIn is attempting to harness the power of its growing user base to channel their interests, subject areas and needs, resulting in a front page news service...
The advertised benefits for students include the knowledge to “design scalable applications that minimize local storage and processing”, besides becoming “an expert in cloud computing concepts...
There is a good article on crowdsourcing that raises questions about its use just after the Haiti earthquake, questions that were not raised by the subsequent flood of mainstream media articles....
Crowd funding has taken off in the US, Rose says, with about US$100 million raised so far to fund various projects. And it's not a big step for start-up companies to then look at the same...
The most recognisable name in the manufacture of birth control products, Durex has never shy in embracing Web 2.0 principles in their campaigns, including crowdsourcing and social media. To...
Crowdfunding is really heating up in Washington, D.C. with new developments every day and plenty of mainstream media attention. But few people are as close to the issue as Crowdsourcing.org's contributors. The following comes to us from contributing expert William Carleton, who has been following the different bills to legalize crowdfunding in the U.S. Congress for us for months now. This post was originally published on his blog. Carleton is a Seattle attorney with experience as a startup lawyer and angel investor.
It seems the same people on Twitter who bemoan the falling standards of mainstream media reporting are the ones who want the media to completely throw aside the idea of reporting and simple shout...
Crowdsourced video footage, which is taken by amateurs and uploaded onto platforms like YouTube or Facebook, is having a revolutionary impact on the way news is told. That is the premise behind a report put out by the Center for International Media Assistance, in which author Jane Sasseen digs deep to uncover the roots and potential effects of “The Video Revolution,” as the report is titled.
This study is intended to provide a counterpoint to the populist hyperbole that characterises IT work as a ‘sunrise occupation’ in mainstream literature. The technically challenging aspects of the...
Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices...
Social media are changing the research paradigm in other ways, as well. Adrian J. Ebsary (@AJEbsary on Twitter), a biochemist and the online community specialist at the University of Ottawa, said...
Readers will be able to read the emails for themselves–and the mainstream media will be forced to confront the truth behind the Occupy movement, including its links to socialist, anarchist, and...
A look at which of the many crowdfunding platforms are the most talked about online, and how positive the social media buzz is...
As part of a recent collaboration with KL Communications, Crowdsourcing.org examined the five different kinds of crowdsourcing using sentiment analysis. This third report (in a six-article series) aims to determine how the world’s social media users feel about the 15 top Cloud Labor platforms.
Patrick Meier of Ushahidi explains in a post at Ushahidi blog: The purpose of this project is to catalyze global media attention on Somalia by letting Somali voices take center stage—voices...
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.
