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Trends You Need to Know in the Creator Economy

Trends You Need to Know in the Creator Economy

In today's digital age, the Creator Economy is reshaping how content is produced, consumed, and monetized. With a growing number of individuals becoming content creators and innovators, the landscape is rapidly evolving. This Crowdsourcing Week blog explores the...

Top 10 Freelancing Platforms

Top 10 Freelancing Platforms

Skilled freelance jobs are booming, and it doesn’t matter whether your skill is in marketing, tech, design, law, logistics or accounting. More and more companies are turning to gig platforms to find skilled freelancers to fill a wide array of freelance jobs openings....

Unlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd

Unlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd

We are at the beginning of a period of exponential growth through harnessing human intellect with intelligent technology. The pace of change is often said to get faster and faster, the increase in the world’s collective knowledge is certainly growing faster and...

Reimagining Learning: Hauling Education in to the 21st Century

Reimagining Learning: Hauling Education in to the 21st Century

Covid-19 has created an opportunity for students from elementary-age to graduate school to benefit from crowdsourcing and online classes. What does that mean for the future? Education is a marketplace. Schools, colleges, and universities provide a physical interface...

HeroX: the Social Network of Prize Challenges

HeroX: the Social Network of Prize Challenges

Finding the right talent to solve your problem can be difficult. Crowdsourcing helps you access a global pool of on-demand talent, helping to make innovation efforts less expensive, easier to manage and of better quality through leveraging the ever-expanding 'Power of...

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

Q&A with Rob Israch, CMO, Tipalti

California-based Tipalti, founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Chen Amit and underground VC Oren Zeev, was created to address the difficulties associated with making mass global payments. It does this through a comprehensive cloud-based solution that automates all...

Crowd Gigs Are International

Crowd Gigs Are International

The U.S. Department of Labor recently put out a report on the state of freelancers and gig workers. As one of the largest studies in the space, it showed that the percentage of short-term workers was actually down slightly from 2005 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

When Humans Meet AI: The Next Generation of Crowdsourcing

When Humans Meet AI: The Next Generation of Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing has been around for a very long time. Although the term was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors at Wired, and though it is referred to as a form of Internet-based activities, there are many examples of projects which in retrospect can...

Is Sweden’s forestry and agriculture sustainable?

Is Sweden’s forestry and agriculture sustainable?

As the world population rises, we clearly need strong and competitive agriculture and forestry sectors that can provide us with food and biomass produced by using climate-smart and sustainable practices. Sweden is at the forefront of a transition to bio-based...

Open Innovation at GE: The Power of the Global Crowd [Q&A]

Open Innovation at GE: The Power of the Global Crowd [Q&A]

Q&A with Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation at General Electric While the idea of open innovation is still fairly new, there are an increasing number of initiatives and companies that are getting value out of their efforts with this new collaborative...

CSW Summit DC hit exciting new highs

CSW Summit DC hit exciting new highs

CSW Summit Washington DC on June 15 brought together a famously distinguished group of crowdsourcing thought leaders and innovators to share insights and trends on how the second wave of the crowd economy is reshaping industries and transforming organizations. Between...

Great Design is the Secret to Great Crowdsourcing

Great Design is the Secret to Great Crowdsourcing

Design plays a key role in the effectiveness of crowdsourcing platforms, new research from Eindhoven University of Technology shows. The steady growth of crowdsourcing in recent years brings significant challenges such as increasing competition, delivering high...

Searching for the Crowdsourcing Stars

Searching for the Crowdsourcing Stars

For many of us, it's possible when we think of 'Crowdsourcing' what comes to mind is the Kickstarter of an exciting cause or product that we recently contributed financially to (often to support a friend whose involved in it) after seeing it promoted on social media....

Giving Communities Wings with Body and Soul

Giving Communities Wings with Body and Soul

[INSPIRED BY RED BULL} Do you want to leverage the power of crowds? Do you want to turn a crowd into a community with purpose? Clear is that crowds become more effective at “anything” when they are enabled by systems and they are engaged by soul. Better systems allow...

5 MOOC Platforms Where You Can Learn Anything

5 MOOC Platforms Where You Can Learn Anything

Do you have some spare time this summer? Why not invest in yourself and learn new things via the Internet? Perhaps, some basic concepts on programming, coding or learn online marketing, new technologies and languages, stocks and trading, and a myriad of subjects and...

5 Catalysts of Growth in Asia E-learning Market

The burgeoning e-learning industry in Asia is expected to hit $12 billion by 2018 according to New Ambient Insight Report. Labeled as the second-highest (next to North America) self-paced e-learning market, countries such as Myanmar (50.2%), Thailand (43.7%) and...

Ericsson Incorporates Crowdsourcing

Ericsson Incorporates Crowdsourcing

Ericsson has launched a crowdsourcing component to its Networked Society City Index. Its aim is to measure the performance of cities from two perspectives: their information and communications tech maturity and their sustainable urban development; the Triple Bottom...

Solaborate Aids Social Collaboration for Tech Professionals

I always say that "likes do not save lives" and predict that the future will be about the emergence of web-based channels that allow you to be more productive with your online presence. I like to call this social productivity and I talk about it in a great deal of...