It’s Friday- and hopefully you know the drill by now. Our blur Group writers post blogs on Crowdsourcing, marketing, art, creatives, innovation and such forth. You read and hopefully enjoy them. Here are some of the week’s highlights.

This century will usher in the ‘Participation Economy’. With Crowdsourcing as its essential new social and business tool. It’s a new way of working, thinking, cooperating and leading. It is destined to affect the very concept of organization. It can change the way we are managed.

Earlier this month, video blogger Dan Brown pledged his daily life for 365 days to a crowd of people on his new show, Dan 3.0. They propose tasks for him to do, the other members of the crowd vote on them, and the top rated suggestions at the end of each day go to the [...]

Crowdsourcing has gained great momentum since it was coined in 2006. It has already proved its massive potential with the success stories of Threadless and Wikipedia. However, many creative Crowdsourcing companies are failing to put quality and sustainability first.

Oops! Some of our blur Group writers have gone on their summer holidays recently, and we’ve forgotten to tell you about the latest Crowdsourcing stories… Let’s remedy that right now! From our interviews with entrepreneurs and designers to freaky marketing visions of the future, we’ve still got our finger on the pulse! Have a great weekend!

Next Monday night (August 23 2010) marks the release of Unilever’s first ever Crowdsourced advert on British television, which will be broadcast during the commercial breaks of Coronation Street (ITV) and Big Brother (Channel Four).

Today marks the launch of blur Group’s next generation website- the latest step in our bid to challenge the world’s largest agencies. We believe Crowdsourcing will redefine the concept of creative agency and marketing services- which is just as well-  we’re the leading Crowdsourced creative group.

Last November a new Crowdsourcing project was born, called Giffgaff, which boldly announced that it would become the Wikipedia of mobile phone networks. A brand new mobile phone operator – but with a twist. One that would Crowdsource both its customers and customer support.

Crowdsourcing Quality. Re-defining Agency. We just launched the new face for our Marketing, Design and Media websites. Now our clients (brands and agencies) can submit briefs and our hand-selected creative experts can join our crowd through one slick portal. Go check them out and tell us what you think. blur-Marketing.com blur-Designs.com blur-Media.com

Britain has Skins. Spain has El Internado. And the U.S. had The OC. But could we be about to embark on a new brand of teen based TV-drama? Welcome to online series ‘Anyone But Me’- and guess what? It’s turned to Crowdsourcing for help…

The UK Coalitions first major Crowdsourcing initiative ‘Your Freedom’ seems to have hit a snag. What started out as a cool programme to Crowdsource UK voters views on amending or abolishing red tape has turned into a PR embarrassment. You see, it seems that no government department wants to listen to the suggestions.