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.
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.
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.
2010 marks the beginning of the end of Web 2.0. Just a decade since the starting gun was fired on the .com collapse. With the last collapse went billions of dollars of investor money and high profile company flame outs like Boo.com, Excite @home followed by M&A freak shows such as AOL/Time Warner.
Crowdsourcing harnesses the power of collective thinking and doing to solve problems – often big problems. Crowdsourcing and Cloud computing together deliver a new reality of burst-community and burst-computing. The US and UK governments are actively adopting Crowdsourcing to change the way in which citizens comment on and alter laws and regulation.
Nick Clegg and David Cameron’s UK Tory-Lib Dem coalition is set to launch its second major Crowdsourcing initiative called ‘Spending Challenge’ later today. The aim of ‘Spending Challenge’ is to reduce the UK’s deficit by inviting members of the public to suggest ways the Government could cut public spending.
Crowdsourcing has become one of the hottest trends on the Web. But who are the real experts? Here is our list of hottie Crowdsourcing leaders and a link to their Twitter page. Follow them and watch the space unfold.
Nick Clegg and David Cameron’s Tory-Lib Dem coalition government today announced a major Crowdsourcing initiative called Your Freedom. It’s a great start – assuming the public gets beyond their keyboard apathy. But what else could the coalition do?
Nick Clegg and David Cameron’s UK Tory-Lib Dem coalition today unveiled a major Crowdsourcing initiative called ‘Your Freedom’. Nick Clegg announced on British TV and in the leading newspapers that this is the largest government Crowdsourcing programme to date. Really?
This video about says it all. blur Group’s roots. Tomorrows organization with todays trends — design-driven, Crowdsourced and social media marketed. All in the cloud — defining and driving Agency 3.0. Why blur Group turns more than a few heads. Join us.
What is Crowdsourcing? This question is met head-on and stripped back to basics by Brian Bednarek (Industry Analyst and CEO of Mesh 01) in a one-to-one interview with CBS News anchor Michelle Gielan.
The term Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Jeff Howe. But it’s roots go way back. Its early beginnings are collectives. Particularly the artist collective which was a way for a bunch of folk to get together and succeed better as a group than as individuals. Hey, it worked for the impressionists.
Crowdsourcing is the latest Web buzzword – it can also be as confusing as a tuk-tuk ride through Bangkok. Handle Crowdsourcing with care.
After six months in the making, we are over the moon about the paintastic film for the Let’s Colour campaign. The video is awesome! For those with a fetish for colour you’ll be drooling over your keyboards, your eyeballs kissing the screen! This is a crowdsourced art project that benefits communities worldwide.
Crowdsourcing is becoming the Web’s hottest buzzword. It could kickstart the next Web. Like blogging, Web 2.0, social networking and social media defined the last decade of the Internet, Crowdsourcing could shape the next. And it should.
Web 2.0 was all about the ‘social revolution’. Broadband, cheap laptops and smartphones allowed the masses to access free or nearly free software to converse and create. It unleashed the social media revolution we now depend on.
There is a lot of buzz around B2C Crowdsourced advertising campaigns. The likes of Pepsi and Unilever have stolen the Web bylines with marketing concepts suckled from diverse crowds of video producers and other creatives using cash prizes and social networks.
The Conservative party have been making a lot of noise about Crowdsourcing. Obama is its pioneer. But they have little in the way of practical details about Crowdsourcing strategies and mechanisms. Here is a list of applications of Crowdsourcing in government that we think could prove the most effective.
The concept of ‘agency’ or the role of ‘agent’ has not changed much in 100 years. Particularly when it comes to the creative agency. But there’s something a brewing in agency land.
Having trouble rousing the locals at your favourite football team’s home games? Then how about this for an idea- Crowdsourcing energy from the supporters to keep the stadium functional during the game! This was a model trialled by Japanese Division One side Vissel Kobe earlier this month,
Mission 4636- just one part of the story that has captured the attention of billions across the world in the opening months of 2010: namely, the tragedy and continued devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti on January 12.
Expertsourcing. Yup, that’s another term to add to your mental back catalogue of fancy words to use at a marketing job interview. What is expertsourcing you say? I’ll leave it to Rick Liebling, the author of Eyecube, to explain…
What’s an ‘online crowd?’ At first glance, the question appears so simplistic that even the dinosaurs of the internet age might feel they have a chance. A crowd of people…that meet online? Yes… but, no. It’s slightly more complex than that Grandpa.
From our ‘What is Crowdsourcing?’ initiative we’ve dug up one wild Crowdsourced project. A dutch guy is making a Crowdsourced movie on the collapse of DSB Bank in the Netherlands. Zero budget, big screen ambitions, all volunteer, pure Crowdsourcing. See their presentation below – some useful tips.
