Category: Social Business
Mayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding
by Clive Reffell | Jul 11, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Social Business
The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the...
Read MoreTrust Is The New Gold, And Nordic Countries are Leading The Way
by Epi Ludvik | Feb 22, 2018 | Crowd Currencies, Social Business
While the tech world has its eyes set on ICOs – the funding frenzy of 2017 – an often overlooked currency seems to be shaping the way forward for tech giants. Trust is the most important currency and shouldn’t be...
Read MoreEnergy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)
by Clive Reffell | Nov 23, 2017 | blockchain, Citizen Engagement, Collaborative Economy, Social Business
In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the...
Read MoreFour factors on why crowdsourcing can make you ready for future of work
by Nishith Gupta | Nov 20, 2017 | Collaborative Economy, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work, Online Communities, Social Business
Few skills which one can hone with the help of crowdsourcing and be ready for future of work.
Read MoreSweden is a Crowdsourcing Leader
by Clive Reffell | Oct 26, 2017 | Citizen Engagement, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, Social Business
Sweden is recognised as being at the forefront of using crowdsourcing to develop both business and community social opportunities. Perhaps it’s an almost inevitable extension of central government policy to eradicate gender...
Read MoreWhy Changes of Scenery Are Important in the Gig-Economy
by Clive Reffell | Apr 25, 2017 | Collaborative Economy, Crowdsourcing, Future of Work, Social Business
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by...
Read More#1 Secret Why Google is the Most Valuable Company on Earth
by Epi Ludvik | Feb 6, 2016 | Crowdsourcing, Social Business
Do you remember when Google acquired YouTube for $1.6 billion? I always ask this question when speaking at conferences and the reason behind this huge acquisition I believe, is because the company had inherently understood the...
Read MoreReinvent your Business Model with Platform Thinking – An Interview With Sangeet Paul Choudary
by Maria Krisette Capati 玛丽亚 | Nov 4, 2015 | Crowdsourcing, Social Business
The digital platform is not just a medium to interact but is one of the cornerstones of the crowd economy, that is poorly understood at best. This was a big takeaway from my interview with a top global CXO advisor on the...
Read MoreInvesting in Women is Win-Win For All
by Yuliya Hudoshnyk | Oct 16, 2014 | Crowdfunding, Social Business
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter BurgFemale entrepreneurship is much more than a social issue. Now it is an economic one with a rising generation of ‘mumpreneurs’ going out and challenging the existing gender imbalance...
Read MoreThe 5 P’s of the Crowd Economy
by Epi Ludvik | Oct 10, 2014 | Open Innovation, Sharing Economy, Social Business
This article by Epi Ludvik is reposted from Virgin Entrepreneur Social connections boosted by the web and mobile networks have seeded collaboration and cooperation like never before. Ironically all this technology has, in more...
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