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Crowdfunding For Causes Does More Than Raise Money

Raising money through crowdfunding for mass causes and popular leaders like Trump continues to show it can mobilize crowds as well as generate funds.

This Week In Crowdsourcing: Roundup News June 20

This Week In Crowdsourcing: Roundup News June 20

In the CSW Global 2015 conference, one of the so many “quotable” and “tweetable” insights that were strikingly true today: “Crowdsourcing… this is not just in Silicon Valley… it’s a global movement,” Sean Moffitt said. And as you read this curated weekly roundup of...

7 European Countries Embracing Crowd Economy

7 European Countries Embracing Crowd Economy

What makes these 7 European countries unique? What is this “crowd economy” that we are talking about? A New Paradigm: 14 parts of the Crowd Economy Landscape tells us that the sharing economy is actually a subsect of the crowd economy umbrella. The crowd economy, as...

This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup June 13

This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup June 13

Every week there’s always something to look forward to on the crowdsourcing space. Definitely, we are living in the most exciting times. So here's a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy. Read what...

10 Ridesharing Apps You Can Use

10 Ridesharing Apps You Can Use

As a digital-savvy millennial, I realized how technology has changed my habits. When booking a ticket, I’d crowdsourced flight prices via Skyscanner and instead of staying in a hotel for long vacays, I’d choose Airbnb to make myself at home anywhere. And when in...

6 Things Recruiters Need to Know About the On-Demand Economy

For decades, HR recruiters were swept up in a tidal wave of résumés – swimming through thousands to spot the one person who might be the right fit for the company. But the tide has shifted. Recruiting is no longer a “throw out the net and see what we get” process, but...

This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup June 6

Do you want to know what created the latest buzz in crowdsourcing this week? Here's a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy. Uber is making some headlines this week as it celebrates its 5th...

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...

Why Mindsharing is the Superpower of the Crowd Economy

Can you imagine what two heads can achieve to solve a problem? A popular quote sums it up: “Two are better off than one because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up.” True enough, no man or woman is an island....

This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup May 29

This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup May 29

Here's a curated weekly roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy. There is quite a buzz on the crowdsourcing, crowd currencies, sharing economy, smart cities, crowd intelligence in healthcare and many more. Australia’s...

Innovation Management Maturity: A Simple, Visual Approach

Simple Does It Clients and I talk about innovation management maturity all the time. How mature is their practice of collaborative innovation? What signs point to maturity? What outcomes speak to maturity? How might they perfect their practice? I craft a simple visual...

Idea Exchange with Switzerland’s Innovators and Change Makers

Were you at #CSWGeneva? Crowdsourcing Week along with our partner Catalyx put on a great event that brought together top practitioners from Geneva and rest of Europe on stage in one action-packed day. The agenda succeeded in turning up the volume on the collaborative...

15 Must-Read Takeaways from CSW Global 2015

15 Must-Read Takeaways from CSW Global 2015

“Does the crowd economy work?" - if this question was running through the minds of attendees at CSW Global 2015 the response was a resounding "yes". The conference finished on a high note with high-caliber speakers and crowd economy influencers sharing amazing...