Watsi is a crowdfunding platform that connects you with patients in serious need of low-cost medical care and enables you to fund high-impact treatments. The dynamic team from Watsi has a simple enough goal: to help people dying of treatable illnesses because they...
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CrowdChat with AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani: Innovation in the Airline Industry
Azran Osman-Rani was appointed AirAsia X CEO in 2007, at the impressive age of 36. Under his leadership, the fast-growing carrier has become Asia’s leading low-cost long-haul flight provider by breaking industry conventions and developing innovative revenue sources and services.
Do You Spot a Difference?
Yes, yes! Apart from the fact that they are pictures of two different Presidents and their wives during their respective inauguration, what is a striking difference between the two? The first picture with President Bill Clinton seems more uptight and bureaucratic with...
CrowdChat With Crowdsourcing Author Ross Dawson, Jan 23 at 1 pm Sydney Time
We are so thrilled to announce that Ross Dawson will be joining us for our next Twitter #CrowdChat — the man who wrote what’s considered “the must-read bible on using crowdsourcing effectively.” How to even begin introducing Ross Dawson? He is a globally-recognized futurist, entrepreneur, and strategy advisor who is founding chairman of four companies, including international consulting and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies. You may recognize Ross from his frequent media appearances on CNN, Channel News Asia, ABC TV, and Today. To top it all off, he speaks five languages – Asombroso!
GE: Industrial Internet Will Connect Data, Machines and People
At the Minds+ Machines Conference in Silicon Valley, November last year, GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt hosted an event to address a room full of innovators in San Francisco. He touted the “Industrial Internet” as the next frontier in innovation. What...
Elance Levels the Field for Businesses & Freelancers
Our first #Crowdchat of 2013 was with the CMO of Elance Rich Pearson. Elance is a leading workforce crowdsourcing platform and Rich’s expertise in crowd-centric business models makes him a leading marketing voice in the space. On the crowd chat, Rich covered a...
Cleantech Crowdfunding Finances Solar Projects in Record Time
The sharing and crowdsourcing economy is paving the way for more robusts methods of investments with real return on many fronts. Mosaic just launched the first online clean energy investment marketplace that connects investors to high quality solar projects.
Crowdsourcing Week Announces First Global Conference
via press release Crowdsourcing Week announces the first global conference on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding in Singapore, June 3 – 7, 2013. This international 5-day curated event will focus on how “a crowd of people” can make...
CrowdChat 2013: Rich Pearson of Elance on the Future of Freelancing on Jan 9, 8 PM EST
What is Crowdsourcing Week’s new year resolution? Well, one is to deepen the online dialogue about crowdsourcing, and we’ll be ramping up our #CrowdChat schedule in 2013 to bring you a number of industry experts for insightful, accessible chats on the powerful...
How Razoo Helps Charities Fundraise & Engage Effectively
Lesley Mansford, CEO of Razoo answered a few questions for us on Razoo, a social fundraising platform that is changing the dynamics of corporate and personal charity. Razoo endeavors to make it easy to not only support your favorite cause, but is also proving to be a...
Crowdsourcing Week: Call for Writers
Join our editorial team! Crowdsourcing Week is looking for writers in the crowdsourcing and open innovation space to join our team of bloggers and media contributors. If you are looking to be a leading global voice on the next big business innovation that can disrupt...
10 Reasons Crowdsourcing will Transform the Way we Work
Mechanisms such as Crowdsourcing are about to fundamentally change the way we perform and organize work. Conventional organizational structures are about to become more loose and in addition to (well known) outsourcing initiatives, companies have to consider...