As anyone with a lapsed gym membership knows, New Year’s Resolutions have a tendency to, well, not show much resolve. So we thought we’d make blur Group‘s resolutions not easy, but eminently achievable by ourselves and by other businesses who want to ensure that 2011 is an exciting and successful year. Let’s go! 1) Engagement [...]

2010 draws to a close and everyone is predicting the most obvious outcome of 2011: that social media is going to be big for business. What still seems to be brushed under the carpet is that as companies embrace the social media trend, leap on the bandwagon, go twitter-crazy or Facebook themselves up they’re still [...]

As I combined sugar, spice and all things nice into the latest batch of holiday treats, it made me wonder that as Crowdsourcing starts to become a more recognised practice, is there a way to ensure the perfect Crowd mix? With blur Group Crowds now exceeding 8000 here’s some things we’ve observed about that magical [...]

The Big Society? This was the big idea, hyped by big bravado, and delivered with plenty of big Crowdsourcing innuendo and platitude by David Cameron throughout April and May. A statement without substance? Further evidence of the ‘Old Politics’ masquerading as the ‘New Politics’?

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.

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]