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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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s Next for Crowdsourcing? NGO Utilization and Leverage

Triple Pundit ponders on the idea of what’s next for crowdsourcing. There are some arguments to which are important on how the concept is to be seen in the next few years, and as a part of a still-growing community online. Matt Mahan from Causes.com has stated that there is a slight bump in the [...]

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 [...]

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