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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Power of the Crowd Challenges the Politics of Misinformation
There’s been a lot in the news lately about safecast.org, the crowdsourcing site that was set up to “provide additional context to the official statements”* about radiation levels across Japan, following the earthquake and subsequent nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant. “The (official) information was just kind of unreliable, not updated frequently, no way to [...]
Crowdsourcing Graffiti -The writing’s on the wall (but not for long)
I almost dropped my spray can when i found out about a crowdsourcing website in Australia called Vandaltrak.com.au The site calls for members of the community to report graffiti incidents by submitting photos. Therefore, even after the graffiti has been cleaned away, there is still a record of evidence against the artiste should they be [...]
Crowdsourcing
Found on businesswiki.com New technologies have the tendency to bring new terms with them that people find hard to cope with as they are not always explained well. To the average reader, this might not seem this important, but imagine talking to a potential customer about what exactly it is your company does. If you [...]
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