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Consumers have the tools, time and desire to be involved on a much deeper level than we’ve ever seen before. There are several distinct ways that you can take these ideas and build social media...
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...
Crowd funding works on the principle that a lot of small contributions conveniently made by cell phone or computer through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, will add up to make a...
The Kit-Kat and Nescafe owner’s digital marketing team is working with their counterparts in PR to develop a system that will generate insight quicker and at a lower cost. Pete Blackshaw, head of...
Sina Kamala Kaufmann from wooga added some thoughts on gamification. Sina is the head of communications and partnerships at wooga (world of gaming), the second largest developer of social games...
Willems' lecture focused on IT management, crowdsourcing and social media. With regards to the topic on crowdsourcing, the most important part of the lecture is about the four basic...
I recently spoke to John Bernier from Best Buy, the discussion about Twelpforce as a highly innovative approach to real-time customer service to learn more about the opportunities for crowdsourcing customer service. More recently I interviewed Gioacchino La Vecchia, Chairman and CEO and a co-Founder of CrowdEngineering who, through his CrowdForce platform, is a forerunner in the development of enterprise-class Social CRM solutions. It would seem that international recognitions by industry analysts Gartner and Altimeter, who awarded the accolades of “cool vendor” and “the one to watch” in Social CRM, preceeding last week’s announcement that CrowdEngineering had closed a $4m Series A Round the crowd may have a big role to play in servicing itself!
In the Anglo-American world, crowdfunding is already established as an alternative form of fundraising. Yet in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, crowdfunding is also increasing its volume. A dozen crowdfunding platforms have been launched to cater to the needs of the German-speaking creative industry and technology start-ups. A survey created by Berlin-based ikosom, the Institute of Communication in Social Media, shows that crowdfunding has left its infant shoes behind.
The key to social business is to provide your brand's advocates the opportunity to own a piece of its messaging. That's also true for your crowdsourcing efforts. So simplify the process,...
Crowdsourcing is clearly not going away. Any company that believes it can operate with a closed-walls philosophy is missing the point of social business. The crowd, or groups external to the firm, provide interesting, sometimes path-breaking, sometimes huge numbers of ideas, insights and solutions. Crowdsourcing is part of the future of making and selling things. No question.
Still, there are a couple of questions niggling away at the back of my mind. There are more than two but these two beg an answer.
The first is how do we improve crowdsourcing? We know it's better than relying solely on internal resources for a variety of tasks, from routine to innovatory, but if crowdsourcing is to become a fixed operational resource, a part of the furniture so to speak, then we need to know how to measure and improve the process. That's akin to saying how do we professionalise it.
The second question is where does it lead us to? CNN recently announced it will upgrade its iReport crowdsourced news services. The end result will be a social network for news, a community that simultaneously creates, distributes and consumes news. This makes perfect sense. We are already blurring the line between production, marketing and consumption but we need to think where this is headed in other segments of the market.
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...
DNA 11 Labs is the place where design ideas and social interaction meet. DNA 11 is world-renowned for being the original creator of the world’s most personalized art: DNA Portraits made from...
In this discussion, Markus Strohmaier introduces the concept of crowdsourcing and relates it to the problem of semantic knowledge acquisition. He presents results from extracting semantics in...
Crowdsourced solutions to data collection and processing are growing in many fields, including disaster risk management. As these solutions are adopted into the mainstream, deployments in conflict...
IndieGoGo is based on the principles of opportunity, transparency, and action. They provide the tools for you to build your campaign. IndieGoGo also provides integrated social media tools, and the...
New crowdfunding platforms are springing up like weeds — our database alone lists a whopping 344 crowdfunding platforms, a significant increase from the same time last year. Last night, we shined the spotlight on Fondomat, a newly launched Czech crowdfunding website — the first in the country, in fact.
Today we examine a more established platform: Kapipal, founded by IT consultant and Italian professor Alberto Falossi in 2009. A general crowdfunding platform for creative projects, charitable causes, events — anything, really — Kapipal allows for both public and private crowdfunding. We spoke with Falossi to learn more.
This article makes the case for opening up the decision-making to involve larger communities, using known crowdsourcing principles and social technologies, to improve the quality of funding...
Over the past decade, Open Innovation has emerged as a leading business trend that has transformed the way enterprises approach all aspects of product development, from R&D through marketing and branding and even to post-sales support. By “opening the doors” to new ideas generated by others outside their own walls (including in many cases their customers!), companies have found new ways to leverage external knowledge to build better products.
This past Thursday, President Obama signed the JOBS Act, legalizing crowdfund investing in the United States. Although numerous people influenced the legislative process surrounding crowdfunding and JOBS Act, Sherwood Neiss and his fellow Startup Exemption co-founders were central figures in that process. The bill would not have passed — in fact, would not even exist — if not for the tireless efforts of these three individuals over the last 15 months. Neiss and his partners crafted the original crowdfund investing framework (which remains largely unchanged in the final JOBS Act), testified at two Congressional hearings surrounding access to capital for entrepreneurs, and lobbied vigorously on Capitol Hill for the ideal implementation and passage of a crowdfund investing bill. Eric Blattberg of Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Sherwood Neiss about all things JOBS Act: its conceptualization, the legislative process, its ultimate passage, its benefits and potential drawbacks, its media reception and much more.
Crowdfunding could become one of the most promising new strategies for business creation in decades — but intermediaries, investors, and entrepreneurs need to manage the risks to reap the rewards.
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.
