Crowdsourcing Conservation Ideas: Causes for Clean Water
It’s no secret now that Crowdsourcing is now making its ways into the limelight. A lot of people may be unaware that they are actually participating in a crowdsourcing platform! A good example of crowdsourcing’s general market is the raising of causes and ideas to help a certain audience. Recently, the Freshwater Society in Minnesota [...]
“From Geek Speak to Global Business” – How Crowdsourcing is now Entering the Market
The Financial Post has recently given a spotlight on Crowdsourcing and its ever-growing cultural and global impact on business. The author honestly states that he had almost given up on crowdsourcing, but has seen new light on the subject matter. It is an interesting thing to point out that one of the pioneers of [...]
Is There Such a Thing as ‘Wrong’ Crowdsourcing?
In creating different business and organizational strategies, there are always ups and downs on which things work, and which do not. We recently came across an article from OpenForum on how Stephen Shapiro, a Chief Innovation Evanelist accounts for using crowdsourcing the wrong way. As the article author was writing a book on various controversial [...]
A Visual Explanation of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing may be a fancy term for some, but it’s pretty much a concept being used all over the internet which you should be somewhat a participant already. Ideas to change the world are being taken over by the power of the crowd, and who doesn’t love infographics? oBizMedia.com has created this fun infographic which [...]
Openideas is looking for a Web Designer/UI Intern!
Looking for a fun, highly enjoyable job that mixes both your creative and thinking juices? Best to make the most of your time by drawing first blood and do some actual on-the-job training with us! Right now, Openideas is looking for an intern to work with us do some cool and engaging designs for our [...]
How Crowdsourcing Can Help Children’s Causes
AdAge shares an instance where gathering a crowd of supporters can help children’s causes in their ‘Goodworks’ segment. The section is all about using marketing tools to generate effective and engaging conversations for a cause. The author of the article, Jim Hmurovich argues that crowdsourcing’s powerful potential goes beyond its retail and sales aspect and [...]
Do The World a Flavor – How Crowdsourcing can Generate Customer Buzz
Love ice cream? Who doesn’t? Well, global ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s have recently been making the Crowdsourcing news rounds with a competition that encourages fans to help determine their next flavor to pop out of your local grocery’s shelves. Wittily called “Do The World a Flavor“, fans can create their own Ben & [...]
Fostering Environmental Change Through Collective Ideas
We recently came across an interesting crowd idea gathering website put up by locals of New York. Change By Us NYC has one simple goal: How can we make our city a cleaner, greener place? By posting ideas through a series of ‘stickies’, visitors can see ideas contributed by residents of New York. One can put [...]
Five Ways to Reduce Costs By Crowdsourcing
Wondering how to reduce significant costs to your company or organization? It is always a challenge to have an efficient and cost-friendly sytem for idea management, and crowdsourcing just might be the thing. Today openideas gives you five potential ways on how to save money for your organization, while having a fun and easy way [...]
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