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 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 [...]
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 [...]
When ideas have sex
Matt Ridley recently gave a TED talk about idea development and exchange. He stated that technological development was only possible for humans because they exchange their knowledge and work together. This way, the sum of their skills is more than just all the single ones together. This is what makes mankind unique and lets us [...]
How to motivate employees 2.0
As we recommended a video to show how openideas will motivate (Dan Pink) – we would recommend even more, the recently published animation to it by the RSA. Dan Pink was the chief speech writer of Al Gore by the way. You can find his book about this topic on Amazon. Enjoy…
We participate in the A1 App Challenge
The last days we were working on the mobile version of openideas. It is going to be an Android app that will show you Ideas in your neigbourhood by walking around in a city and makes it possible to take a photo of a spot, enter title and description and upload it as a new [...]
How to kill your startup part 2 – ´´Money´´
A lot of people will tell you that money is evil. Some even go as far as saying that money is the root of all evil. I don´t want to contradict those self-proclaimed evangelists, but I have to add a tiny note: not necessarily. Money can be really good when used in the right context. [...]
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