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How to Apply Affiliate Marketing to Crowdfunding Campaigns
Learn how to raise money for your crowdfunding campaign with affiliate marketing. Uncover all the ins and outs of affiliate marketing for crowdfunding.
Trends You Need to Know in the Creator Economy
This Crowdsourcing Week blog explores the Creator Economy, its current state, and what the future trends mean for content creators and innovators.
Physical Product Creators Can Learn About Reward-Based Crowdfunding, Logistics and e-Commerce at CreatorClub.com
CreatorClub.com offers community-based insight for tech and design startup founders to learn about product creation, funding and logistical processes.
The Future Arrived Early: Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology Trends
After a virtual reality concert took place inside a Minecraft game, this article takes a look at other recent AR and VR technology trends
Top 10 Freelancing Platforms
More and more companies, particularly startups, are turning to gig platforms to find skilled freelancers who can fill a wide array of what are sometimes temporary positions.
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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...
Four factors on why crowdsourcing can make you ready for future of work
Few skills which one can hone with the help of crowdsourcing and be ready for future of work.
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 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...
FUBAR, a disruptive UK radio station delivering unregulated content to digital devices
At Crowdsourcing Week we are fascinated by the disruption taking place in many business sectors where established business models are being re-written. Entrepreneurs are identifying and exploiting opportunities provided by the global connectivity of billions of...
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
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...
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
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...