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Pulse Check: Participate in the 2014 Global Crowdsourcing Survey

Happy 2014! This new year promises exciting things for all of us in the Crowdsourcing Week family. So it seems perfect to start all that off with our 1st Annual Global Crowdsourcing Survey, co produced by Wikibrands and Crowdsourcing Week.   The survey will provide a...

CSW Global 2014 to Highlight Crowd Impact

We at Crowdsourcing Week are thrilled to announce the 2nd edition of our flagship global conference in Singapore from April 7-11, 2014. The second annual conference will deepen the conversation from the inaugural event with an overarching theme that highlights...

Bob Pickard Joins Crowdsourcing Week’s Advisory Board

As we are counting down to our 2nd global conference coming to Singapore in April 2014, I am thrilled to announce the first of many exciting happenings at Crowdsourcing Week. My team joins me to extend a very warm welcome to Bob Pickard, who formally joins our...

Crowdsourcing Week Singapore 2014: Call for Speakers

It's coming! The annual global Crowdsourcing Week conference in Singapore will be held April 7-11, 2014. After the resounding success of the 2013 conference, next year's event is only going to get bigger and better. We will announce the conference tracks and our...

CSW London 2013 Showcases Crowd Solutions

Crowdsourcing Week's (CSW) London Summit on Oct 3, 2013 was a great success with a special focus on how enterprise and startups can rely on crowdsourced solutions to help them grow the long-term viability of their organizations. With KPMG as our premier event partner,...

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

The business operating climate in the UK as well as globally, is rapidly changing with emerging disruptive technologies, increasing cost of business and bigger competition. Remaining competitive in such an environment needs innovation, an agile team and strategic...

Event: Massolution NYC 2013 to Underscore Crowdcentric Businesses

massolution NYC 2013: Learn how major enterprises are designing and deploying crowd-based strategies to foster innovation, fuel growth, drive sales and connect and engage with customers. This two-day inaugural conference is being produced by massolution, a research...

Fund a Startup: CSW Winning Startups Go LIVE on RocketHub

The team at Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) is excited to announce that the three winning startups from our Startup Challenge in June have just launched their crowdfunding campaigns on RocketHub. CSW and Rockethub are working with an inspiring group of entrepreneurs with big...

7 Things I Learnt at Crowdsourcing Week

     This is a guest post by Ayesha Kohli, Vice President, Prime Time Business and Professional Women's Association and Principal Consultant, Sparq Communications. A few weeks back I found myself stuck with a clichéd phrase in my head “The world is changing...

How Do You Know You Are At A Hip Conference?

This is a guest post by Uta Langley, a highly sought after trainer, coach and speaker specialising in happiness and success through effective management with over 20 years’ experience. She has tutored the Women into Enterprise course at the University of Bath and has...

Crowdsourcing Week 2013: 300 Delegates, 23 Countries, 1 Week

What a week! The first global conference, in Singapore from June 3-7, that focused on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation was a resounding success. Asia and Singapore saw the first-of-its kind event that brought together open-internet experts and speakers...

Crowdsourcing Debuts in the Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary has added ‘crowdsourcing’ to its famous lexicon, highlighting its prevalent usage today! This development follows the inaugural global conference on Crowdsourcing in Singapore earlier this month, that saw attendees and speakers from over...

Crowdsourced Models Disrupting Business as Usual

Crowdsourced Models Disrupting Business as Usual

Crowdcentric business models are disrupting the way we start, scale or diversify businesses today and day 3 of programming at Crowdsourcing Week highlighted just that. June 6 opened with presentations from Paul Neiderer, ASSOB, Darren Westalke of Crowdcube and Leo...

Crowdsourcing Week Announces Winners of the Startup Challenge

Aaannd we have the winners of the Startup Challenge! We have four winners and they are all some great apps and with global representation from Greece, France, India/UK and Germany. The startups were picked on the basis of pitch, business model and crowdfunding...

Citizen Empowerment Is All about YOU

Can citizens be empowered through crowdsourcing? Can we co-create our own constitution? Can we help our government to design better policy? Can we help industry and scientists solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare? Can we build better communities through...

Best Practices for Brand Engagement, Crowdsourcing for Creatives

It is finally here! The first global conference on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding is underway in Singapore and the atmosphere is electric with some stellar speakers and delegates from all over the world. Crowdsourcing Week was inaugurated on a...

Crowdsourcing Turns Social Media into Social Productivity

Crowdsourcing Turns Social Media into Social Productivity

‘Likes don’t save Lives’ – this simple but impactful message by UNICEF puts everything in perspective: social media as we know it is great, but what happens after the like, tweet or share? How can we give social media a little edge to live on longer and be more...

“Crowd Design for Good” Competition Announces Winners

Crowdsourcing Week 2013 is thrilled to announce the five winning designs for our “Crowd Design for Good” campaign that crowdsources art for fun and a great cause. Crowdsourcing Week partnered with 99designs and Kiva to empower developing communities around the world...