Crowdsourcing is becoming big business across the globe and China is no exception…. The Worlds newest emerging superpower had a population of 1,331,460,000 at the last count. That’s a lot of people! So it should come as no surprise that Crowdsourcing in China has the potential to reach epic proportions. It may though come as [...]

The old saying goes: ‘two heads are better than one’. So lots and lots of heads must be even better? Right? Some would say otherwise, that utilising Crowdsourcing for things like testing and improving open source software or gathering data is risky and will  lead to poor results and unreliable data. That the wisdom of [...]

Fundraising. It’s the purpose of all charity work, the lifeblood that keeps them alive and imperative for their future existence from one year to the next. Charities can rarely afford to rest on their laurels- and especially in choppy economic climes such as these.

Crowdsourcing has officially moved from Web fad to Web trend. Which means that in a couple of years everyone will be doing it. There are 7 secrets to really successful Crowdsourcing. Or at least we think there are. 1. Understand clearly what Crowdsourcing is. Start with Jeff Howe’s definition (after all he coined the term).

Sparxoo, a US research firm focused on innovation and digital strategy, wrote a cool article yesterday on ‘Building the Crowd.’ They talk about 3 leading Crowdsourcing projects including Groupon, Kiva and blur Group. Examples of real businesses building sustainable business models around Crowdsourcing. ‘blur Group takes crowdsourcing to a whole new level — creating powerful [...]

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 [...]

The power of the crowd. Synchronization in motion. Natural. Spontaneous. Crowdsourced. Dig.

Focused Crowdsourcing. We’ve been studying it, we’ve been applying it, we’ve been talking about it. Photo by foxypar4 via Flickr An interesting study from ReadWriteWeb, looks into patterns of behaviour within large crowds such as Yelp or Digg and finds that there’s always a bunch of power users driving the game. We believe that focused [...]

blur Group is a leader in focused crowdsourcing. Their crowds are tightly managed, highly focused and extremely productive. They manage crowds as virtual organizations. Un-corporations. And as a result their crowds of artists, entrepreneurs, digital marketers, designers and writers act as ‘collectives’ of independents that come together under the blur umbrella to take on their [...]

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]