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Social Forecasting is based on a simple concept, which combines the approach of crowdsourcing with an incentive mechanism for users to contribute their best knowledge. Crowdsourcing participants...
Crowdworx was kind enough to write up a case study for us looking at how one of its clients, Henkel, utilized social forecasting to improve predicting the demand for its wide array of products sold in Europe.
Social Forecasting can not replace experts. Providing a good forecast is one thing but making intelligent use of it is still a task for experts and decision-makers which Social Forecasting cannot...
Social Forecasting is a form of Collective Intelligence. The main common characteristic of Collective Intelligence is that a large number of human contributors are involved. The quality of the...
In this guest post, Crowdworx founder Aleksandar Ivanov explains how crowdsourcing with employees can help generate accurate risk assessments and sales forecasts, leading to actionable information and an engaged workforce.
"Measuring the total addressable market is an extremely difficult exercise, especially in emerging markets," said Jim Lundy, founder and CEO, Aragon Research. "With this new...
If you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new “Social” tab at the bottom that provides access to weather related tweets from the surrounding area. The Weather...
Fab re-engineered its look to capitalize on recent data indicating that users who had checked out the site’s crowdsourcing feature were more likely to make purchases than those who hadn’t. Among...
CrowdWorx is a SOCIAL FORECASTING tool which utilizes the knowledge of your employees and transforms it to quantitative forecasts about sales, new products, and other business KPIs. You may also...
BIA/Kelsey's new study on American SMB goes on to say that by 2015 SMBs will allocate 30 percent of their marketing budgets to traditional advertising (down from 52 percent in 2010), with the...
What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered with KL Communications to find out.
Using a tool called Netbase, which indexes and analyzes millions of conversations across the web, Crowdsourcing.org and KLC analyzed data for the top 15 sites generating the most buzz for each of the five main crowdsourcing categories in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. This report examines a year of data — timeframe: November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011 — garnered from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, news sites and consumer reviews.
The idea behind Metwit is that crowdsourced weather updates can be more trustworthy and accurate compared to traditional weather forecasts that can be unrefined and relatively inaccurate. Users can...
Spigit, the global leader in Social Innovation Software, today announced it has acquired San Francisco based Crowdcast, the company that defined Social Business Intelligence. Spigit with...
Prediction Market and Henkel Most of sources do not distinguish between Prediction Markets, the most popular technology, and Social Forecasting. Within prediction markets, participants...
CrowdPark is a social forecasting game based on the principle of an underlying electronic prediction market. Ingo Hinterding, co-founder of CrowdPark They just recently went open beta with their...
The Institute for the Future created this 2020 Forecast: A Planet of Civic Laboratories Map to highlight future innovations that will harness urban data to reduce poverty and promote inclusion....
Participants come from all walks of life. While Professor Charles Twardy said he'd love to have, say, agronomists, on his team to help forecast European polices and responses to mad cow...
Ourcast provides detailed, hyperlocal forecasts based on a new type of statistical modeling that uses real-time radar data and weather station readings provided by 20,000 volunteers across the U.S....
Last week, Spigit, a social innovation software company, announced its acquisition of Crowdcast for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Spigit will add Crowdcast’s patents to its own portfolio, and Crowdcast’s leadership team will join Spigit’s.
Most international experts and IT analysts believe that there will be tectonic shifts in technologies and developed economies in the coming years. Not only the technology industry will be...
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.
