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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
