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One company is tapping the crowd inviting them to help design and create products that align with their own tastes and values. From clothing and accessories to electronics and eco-friendly products, Daily Grommet is driving crowdsourced production using a concept called Citizen Commerce. Crowdsourcing.org recently caught up with Kate Reynolds McLeod, Product Discovery Manager of Daily Grommet.
Wer nur den Sieger kürt, macht alle anderen zu Verlierern. So lautet das gängige Credo hinsichtlich Wettbewerben und Gewinnspielen. Für Single- shots kein Problem, aber wer dauerhaft eine Community...
Genau das Gegenteil exerziert gerade Stephan Bisse mit ViewsHound.com. Der Berliner hat in London ein digitales Verlagsprojekt aus dem Boden gestampft, das alle Aufgaben des Publizierens mit...
„Letztes Jahr hatte ich ein einschneidendes Erlebnis auf der CrowdConf in San Francisco. Als ich die Frage stellte, wer schon von Crowdsourcing gehört habe, erntete ich schallendes Gelächter“....
The growing number of requests Crowdsourcing.org is receiving to share expertise at various events around the world is a signal of the uptake of crowdsourcing, and of the momentum that continues to build around this model! Following a great presentation at CrowdConvention in Berlin, Carl Esposti, Founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing.org spoke at the Kom Je Ook conference in Amsterdam last week.
Fünf Jahre ist es schon her, als Jeff Howes bahnbrechender Artikel im US-Magazin Wired (Ausgabe 14/2006) erschien und den Beginn der Crowdsourcing-Bewegung markierte. Titel: „The Rise of...
The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing (Beijing: September 17-21, 2011) is challenging researchers and practitioners to identify requirements for a platform for crowd computing, arising from experiences in deployment of crowdsourcing applications, which engage crowd members as sensors, controllers and actuators in smart cities and environments.
Crowdsourcing.org recently interviewed Ken Clark, co-chair of the Arizona Competitive Districts Coalition, which was founded to provide the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission with support for two important aspects of redistricting via crowdsourcing and a web platform called ArizonaRedistricting.com. First, to act as an idea generator for the Commission, and second, to serve as a watchdog to enhance transparency.
A new post from our friends at Dialogue Earth about their ongoing efforts to determine trends in sentiment using crowdsourcing:
After evaluating machine-based sentiment products and talking to experts in the field, we determined that effective machine-based coding—for the short, often cryptic, Twitter tweets we sought to understand—remained a challenge. We’ve been using an approach that relies mainly on crowd-sourced workers to code the sentiment of tweets on various topics, from specific chatter about Google and Apple during SXSW Interactive, to the broad public mood about weather and gas prices.
Featured projects range from making Magical Moment tie dye shirts with abused and orphaned youth in South Africa to supporting a carbon-neutral paper company that plants trees rather than cutting...
Chaordix CEO, Shelley Kuipers says the symposium presents an exciting opportunity to learn from and participate with industry peers, as well as to share Chaordix’ unique perspective as a thought...
The product of crowdsourcing can be quantified in different ways - ideas converted into competitive advantage, more affordable labor driving operational savings, and meaningful engagement with employees, fans or customers to increase brand loyalty are just some examples. Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Richard Spiegel, CEO of CrowdTogether, a newly launched crowdsourcing platform to see if it could really deliver across multiple dimensions of the crowdsourcing value proposition.
Crowdsourcing.org recently connected with Marina Miranda from Colaboratorie Mutopo, a social production company that brands itself as “thinkers, makers, builders, designers, and producers who believe in the power of collaboration”. Miranda leads Mutopo’s business in Brazil, and shared some insight on the company’s vision there.
We don’t need words to understand the message behind the most well known iconic symbols, but there is no globally recognized logo for human rights.
A group of states, dedicated designers and human rights defenders have joined their forces to close this gap believing that a shared symbol for all those united in the struggle for human rights will strengthen the message and the movement on a global level.
Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data and digital technologies his work creations of digital art formed from real-world and community generated data. His projects have been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED.
Aaron’s work represents some of the best examples of how masses of otherwise innocuous information can be processed to create beautiful, but equally complex visualizations of data derived from thousands of individual actions. Aaron has also been experimenting with the aggregation of data derived from the collective actions of individuals.
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, about the company’s vision and business model. Samasource offers a “private crowd” as a model that fits between traditional outsourcing and crowdsourcing; the former providing advantages delivered through the organization of qualified labor and the latter delivering the greatest labor arbitrage advantage. Samasource employs a dedicated workforce, managed off-shore by trained service partners that provide quality control in designated work centers. Janah describes Samasource as “a distributive work company that employs crowdsourcing principles.”
Africa Unsigned , founded by Pim Betist, is a crowdfunding platform that aids local artists by taking on the challenge of music production and promotion. This is achieved once the targeted budget is reached through the small amounts of monies that are given by fans and supporters via the website’s platform. Betist previously founded Sellaband, a popular creative crowdfunding site that was the first to adopt a crowdfunding model to assist budding musicians.
Through crowdfunding, 33Needs, along with other platforms like KIVA, Funding Circle, and UnLtd, are changing the way social enterprise is funded.
These platforms offer more efficient 
capital movement than traditional funding sources, and are able to significantly scale the social impact because, according to Josh Tetrick, Founder and CEO of 33Needs, it inherently builds up a community of people that become supporters since it creates a connectedness that is not possible through venture capital and angel investors. The investor is excited about his or her investment and will work hard to spread the word and raise awareness through social media and their own personal network.
"Although the spreadsheet has already been viewed nearly 10,000 times, simply accessing it is a challenge for most people in Egypt. The government cut off Internet access in the country late...
"Social enterprise experts, including Cliff Prior, CEO of UnLtd, think [crowdfunding] is perhaps the hottest fundraising prospects the sector has seen in years."
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