How to Innovate in 2012 through Crowdsourcing
The year’s just about to end, and looks like the Crowdsourcing platform isn’t going to stop dominating in 2012. A recent conference in Europe entitled ‘Social Commerce Trend Report’ became the channel of choice to share their ideas on what’s changing the social hemisphere next year. Tara DeMarco has summarized on her post three main [...]
Holiday Recipes Brought by the Crowd
It’s just a few more days before the holidays, have you prepared what you’re planning to cook for your friends and loved ones? Let the crowd help you out! Amateur and professional cooks all over the world are sharing ideas together, coming up and bringing their own cooking styles on the table by collaborating through [...]
Crowdsourcing Baby Names: A New Trend?
Like they say, the further growth of crowdsourcing leads to endless possibilities in utilizing the platform. Here’s a strange one – crowdsourcing your baby’s name! A couple from Vancouver recently purchased a domain name for them to place suggestions on what to name their unborn baby. The couple have given some ideas on what they [...]
Leveraging Digital Volunteerism: Crowdsourcing Amidst the Thailand Floods
As Thailand got submerged in water & is currently recovering from what the country touts as their worst flooding situation in more than 50 years, social enterprises and institutions are coming up with ways to help victims in need. A good chunk of crowdsourcing platforms have emerged to help out the entire Thai government. One [...]
Human Brainpower in the Cloud: Smart API
Software developer Humanoid has recently launched an interesting API (Application Programming Interface) which could turn a few heads – and unproductive workers to an end. Touted as the first API that utilizes an algorithm that’s similar to how a human brain works to power it, the application provides employers on-the-dot and quality work for crowdsourcing [...]
Let’s Crowdsource – The Idea in Classrooms
Crowdsourcing in the Classroom? The idea of Crowdsourcing isn’t confined to online space anymore, as teachers are now using the term in ways that wouldn’t have been thought of before the age of the internet. It all began when Dan Cohen, a new media director in George Mason University experimented with the concept on Twitter. [...]
Measuring your Crowdsourcing Efforts: Three Types of Crowdsourcing
Now that you’ve embarked on your journey with crowdsourcing and idea collaboration, it’s time to see for yourself and measure your efforts. Beth Kanter’s blog gives us some amazing insights condensed from the book ‘The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing’ on how you can make things work for your business by collaborative efforts. Mentioned are [...]
Crowdsourcing and Music: Creating Alternatives for ‘Unmentionable’ Words
Crowdsourcing can have a little humor sometimes, and can do creative solutions to some concepts/ideas that may be unmentionable or offensive to some. Enter band Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, who recently put up and asked their fans to come up with a radio-friendly word to replace the unmentionable blowjob word (which isn’t allowed for [...]
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