blur Group is becoming the world leader in focused Crowdsourcing with thousands of creative professionals now joining its crowds. Indeed, over a thousand cool, leading creatives join one of blur’s Crowds every month. By the end of 2010 they will have over 15,000 artists, marketers, designers, writers and entrepreneurs. Why is this important? It’s because [...]

So many talented people have joined our Crowds in the last few weeks and months that we thought we should take a few minutes out to publically welcome everyone and remind us what we are trying to achieve together. In short blur Crowds are about the ‘power of many’. With nearly a thousand new members [...]

Leading UK mobile company, O2 has just launched Giffgaff – the worlds first crowdsourced, SIM only, mobile phone operator (MVNO). Customer service, marketing and adverstising is all delivered by the crowd (volunteer consumers) allowing them to reduce costs and offer cheaper mobile services. It’s the future!

Now we all know about Aol.’s demise from Warner Brothers and yes they had the right idea, a fresh start and a new brand. A brand that will put their past behind them and lead them into the future. However the execution of this process seems to have gone wayward. I have a feeling that [...]

“I don’t have enough time for twitter, Facebook or blogging.” What if it paid back 200% of your time invested? Photo by Marchin Chady via Flickr ‘Not having enough time for social media’ sounds like the title of a summer song. You listen to it again and again, without asking yourself why. Maybe we should [...]

In a handful of years publishing companies will be very different. They will combine on-demand, digital publishing with social media and Crowdsourcing. They will give away Web-based books and short stories in exchange for followers and fans that will then get monetized through physical book sales, Kindle downloads, merchandising and ticket sales. The future is [...]

The crowd is flexing its muscles. Take a look at these terrific projects. We’re constantly amazed by what collectives of talented individuals can now achieve so we banged together this video assemblage for a visual share on how crowds are changing the rules forever. 10. I’ve Got Nothing – a crowdsourced song. Just hit the [...]

The worlds greatest designers are rarely found in large design agencies. They are often freelancers or independents. blur Designs is a new kind of design agency, located in London with designers spanning the globe. Born from crowdsourcing, it is shaking up the agency world with an unrivalled roster of talented and diverse designers. With a [...]

And who said video wasn’t the future of the Web. YouTube ads point to a future of viral video – dismantling traditional network TV mechanisms. Watch.

Have you looked into Facebook Advertising to promote your business? Photo by ugo90 via Flickr There is an untold story about Facebook Ads. While most businesses are focusing on Google Adwords for PPC, truth is that those experiencing Facebook are getting positive results. Seomoz.org recently looked at the benefits of ‘in-depth’ targeting and re-published Nielsen’s [...]

You decided that you need a blog to get your brand out there. You’ve figured out how to promote it. Now the time comes to get real productive and post regularly. Where do you get ideas for your next post and the one after that and on? Photo by zetson via Flickr Developing a content plan [...]

Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. It believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference. So do we. This is the main reason why, less than two months ago, we stepped up as organizers of the London [...]

blur Marketing is a new kind of digital agency. It is an international agency born of Crowdsourcing – driven by an emerging collective of both skilled and diverse marketing professionals that banded together to create the largest player in the speedy evolution to social media.  Past: While social media has changed marketing, most established agencies [...]

We’re pretty confident that we’ve convinced you that blogging is key to your brand, so now let’s talk marketing. Photo by Bashed via Flickr You’re set for success, you picked your blogging platform and got it professionally designed. So what happens now? It’s highly likely that you’ll only be talking to yourself unless you get [...]

Innovatrs.com is a different kind of website for entrepreneurs. Innovatrs.com is an emerging, crowdsourced    ecosystem of entrepreneurs, financiers, designers, developers and marketers. It is a center of innovation    where each and every one of its crowd members, in one virtual space, compete to launch and develop the next  big idea into the wider [...]