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Positive psychology reminds us of four key cornerstone values needed for successful fundraising: 1) Understand the true extent of why relationships matter. 2) Develop happy content. 3)...
Crowdsourcing is already changing the field by making new subjects across the world available to researchers. But it also promises to change the field in other big ways.
Take Ford’s Instagram campaign from last year as an example: The Fiestagram. Dividing the campaign over the course of a month, fans were asked to submit Instagram photos relating to a specific...
Many organisations already have huge communities assembled on their Facebook-Page. Now they can use crowdsourcing to get their fans and followers to feel more connected within themselves and to...
A good read on the psychology of crowds.
Back in 2010, economics and psychology Professor Joseph Henrich confirmed what many of us have suspected for a while: that students who took part in psychological studies were predominantly WEIRD.
In this work researchers have developed the first large-scale dataset containing gold-standard deceptive opinion spam. With it, researchers have shown that the detection of deceptive opinion spam...
Gary Wolf, a journalist and co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, argues that the combination of the proliferation of small, cheap sensors, portable computing and the emergence of social...
Monika M. Wahi, an independent research consultant and epidemiologist based in Boston, cautioned that it’s too soon to tell whether using Web-based research subjects will bring unanticipated...
Some think we shouldn’t get so caught up in what it is, but on what it does. As eBay is less about the online auction software program and more about “the millions of people who inform, populate,...
CraftFund's David Dupee writes in to explore the psychology that drives crowfunding. He specifically examines millennials' behavior and uses BrewDog's "Equity for Punks" crowdfunding campaign as a case study.
Getting information or answers online are a great help for people when they do need it. Technology can do wonders indeed. But I do believe in David's contention: "In the end, it’s not...
For anyone deciding to use crowdfunding to get their projects off the ground, a question ultimately arises: “What will help me fund it successfully?” The debate is on, and we’ve had a chance to talk about it with Matt Finlin. Matt is a young film director who has successfully funded his amazing documentary Below New York on Kickstarter last summer. As Matt himself calls it, Below New York is a “love letter, a personal essay” to New York and its great subway artists. Matt requested for $3000 to finish the shooting and the production of the documentary and within a little over a month the amount was gathered.
In a tough turn for the sociologists and psychologists, none of the purely social/psychological treatments had any signficant effects at all.
I was recently asked to give my assessment of the newly-released “#CROWDSOURCING Tweet”. The project is a clever collection of the best tweets about crowdsourcing. Everything from highly-academic observations to harsh scrutiny about the practice to historical citations of crowdsourcing’s beginnings. Written by two serial book authors who have utilized crowdsourcing before in their many endeavors, Kiruba Shankar and Mitchell Levy are the perfect pair to curate this discussion. Since my response to their request quickly turned into a rave review, I wanted to share some of the best bits I read with you all.
Some examples in this CrowdsourcingTweet compilation are as follows: The collective knowledge of the audience is always higher than that of any one speaker. Microfinancing is a great...
From the modern master of psychological terror, Rob Lowe, comes a movie that will leave you screaming for more. Coming soon on October 13th, you still have a chance to be a part of this movie...
The Forecasting ACE site lets people give information on their backgrounds and experience in particular fields, such as politics, science, technology and the economy. At this point, the...
The bottom-up approach to governance is exactly what we need in times of political strife. The integration of something such as social media or a legislative Wikipedia would allow for the...
Most people who want to remodel their home come to realize that the rates of professional architectural design services can quickly spiral out of control; depending on the job, professional designers may charge thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per project — and that’s before the actual construction costs. Enter the crowd. Arcbazar.com — ‘arc’ for architecture and ‘bazar’ for bazaar — attempts to “make architectural design accessible to everyone who is looking for it.” Crowdsourcing.org spoke with Dr. Imdat As, founder of Arcbazar, to learn more — and to ask for kitchen remodeling ideas (…ok, maybe not).
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