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The notion of a Kickstarter campaign was discussed. Alice Waters suggested in an interview with Berkeleyside last week that the crowdsourcing fundraising platform might be worth exploring, and...
With help from the Kickstarter community, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects, Bitponics is on its way to raise $20,000 by June 11, 2012 to help finance initial...
Walker Jones is not the first school to turn to Kickstarter for funding a nutrition program, and it probably won't be the last. But the results so far have been mixed. Just last week , an...
Transcribe Bentham is a participatory project based at University College London. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by...
Community agriculture is not a new initiative in Baltimore, but urban gardening enthusiast LaRen found an innovative way to fund it—through her music. With the help of crowdfunding, her music label...
Zach Braff jumped onto the crowdfunding scene with a splash, raising $1 million in less than a day for his upcoming film Wish I Was Here.
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.
Sophia Novack, a self-described permaculture geek, is the founder of the Open Source Permaculture crowdfunding campaign. For two years she has maintained the Permaculture Media Blog and...
A new way to discover local causes, rally together, and lend a helping hand. FIND YOUR CAUSE. We showcase a variety of community projects you can support, from helping a local school with...
START.ac CEO and Founder, Rod Turner (Ashton Tate, Symantec – SYMC / Norton, ArtSlant), confirms that this initial group of projects reflects his vision for START.ac. “These projects are very...
We take a look at crowdsourced lost and found platform crowdfynd, which launched roughly two weeks ago.
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