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Learn How B2B Brands Co-innovate Best In The Creator Economy

Explore how the b2b creator economy is shifting from marketing channel to co-innovation engine, and what it means for open innovation strategy.

Turn Social Media Posts Into Memorable Stories with BrickFlow

Turn Social Media Posts Into Memorable Stories with BrickFlow

Today, we are pleased and proud to introduce one of our Startup Challenge Winners from Crowdsourcing Week 2013 Singapore – Brickflow!

We all use a number of different social media platforms to share our thoughts and experiences.What if you could pull together all those entries and create a more visual and engaging story. Now there is an app for that! Brickflow is an app for making curated social media slideshows in a matter of seconds. You can build memorable stories and collections with your content from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and more. It’s just like playing with Legos.

Will you Crowdsource your Haircut?

Colleen Flanigan, the coral reef sculptor and TED Senior Fellow, didn’t have time to get a haircut before TEDGlobal back in June. So in the spirit of the conference, themed ‘Radical Openness,’ she crowdsourced one instead, letting dozens of conference-goers each take one snip of her hair.

Is Crowdsourcing Rocking Your World?

Speaking at the inaugural Crowdsourcing Week here in Singapore, Sean Moffitt shared that crowdsourcing is growing at an exponential rate of 88% over the last 8 years. Although it only yields 7 million results on Google compared to Social Media’s 4.2 billion results, the phenomena is affecting every aspect of society.

7 Things I Learnt at Crowdsourcing Week

A few weeks back I found myself stuck with a clichéd phrase in my head “The world is changing so very fast!” I was attending Crowdsourcing Week Singapore and was completely fascinated by the variety of presentations and diverse points of view on life, work and play that were being raised.

Here is a quick snapshot of what might become of our tomorrow, all thanks to the wisdom of the crowd:

How Do You Know You Are At A Hip Conference?

Uta attended Crowdsourcing Week 2013 in Singapore and put down her thoughts via this post that originally appeared on her blog.

5 signs that let you know that you are at a conference at the forefront of current thinking:

HubSpot’s Culture Code Deck

In an article written by Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot’s Co-founder and CTO, Shah seeks to make a statement on why company culture is so important. Shah went so far as to create an infographic and SlideShare deck to further hone in on his points involving workplace happiness, collaboration, and work-life balance.

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 potential.

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 cooperation?

Tuesday is SOLD OUT! AirAsia X, Presidential Office of the Philippines and Pirate 3D join on Wednesday & Thursday

Tuesday is SOLD OUT! AirAsia X, Presidential Office of the Philippines and Pirate 3D join on Wednesday & Thursday

As we gear up for Crowdsourcing Week 2013 starting Monday, June 3 – we have some exciting additions to our program. We are SOLD OUT for access to day 2, Tuesday, June 4. It is going to be a packed audience with some great content and opportunity to network with some of the brightest minds in marketing. We have added some last minute gems to our line-up on Wednesday and Thursday. Don’t miss it!

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 productive?

José María Figueres: Crowd Intelligence Can Solve Big Issues

José María Figueres is a businessman, politician and no stranger to innovation. As President of Costa Rica (1994-1998) at the age of 39, he created a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of sustainability: sound economics, investment in human development, and a strong alliance with nature. Now, as President of the Carbon War Room, he is working closely with futuristic businessmen like Richard Branson to find solutions to climate change that are profitable to the environment and business.
Watch this video where he talks about the potential of the crowd to solve problems for humanity.

“Crowd Design for Good” Competition Announces Winners

Crowdsourcing Week 2013 is thrilled to announce the 5 top designs for our “Crowd Design for Good” campaign that crowdsources art for fun and a great cause. Crowdsourcing Week partnered with 99designs & Kiva to empower developing communities around the world through a t-shirt design competition.

Crowdsourced Of Course

Vote for Crowdsourcing Week’s Official Music Score, Crowdsourced Of Course!

Crowdsourcing Week and Talenthouse organized the Global Fusion competition that invited the artistic community to submit a music score that represented a global flavor to resonate with Crowdsourcing Week’s agenda- to bring the global community on crowdsourcing together in Singapore. Now is the time to acknowledge the efforts of the artists and vote for your favorite track. The most popular melody will be played at the opening gala night on June 3, 2013 in Singapore.

Crowdsourcing Week Offers Crowdfunding Workshop For Startups

We are pleased to announce the Crowdfunding Workshop for Startups —the first one offered in Asia—that will give entrepreneurs like you the opportunity to pitch your idea, learn about and explore the unlimited potential in crowd finance. You will network with industry crowdfunding experts while collaborating with other innovators.

Shelley Kuipers: Participation is The New Brand

Chaordix is an early supporter of Crowdsourcing Week and Shelley is on our Board of Advisors. She will be delivering a talk on Growing Global Brands through Crowdsourcing in Singapore. In this presentation, Shelley will reveal how brands are being transformed by tapping the insights of their crowds. Specific case examples will demonstrate how global brands are successfully incorporating digital crowdsourcing technologies and techniques into their enterprises. We invited Shelley to share her thoughts on the crowdsourcing markets and why brands are paying attention to crowds.