Copley Square in Boston is now a crime scene after the tragic bombing at one of the most iconic sporting events of our time - the Boston Marathon. And hundreds and thousands of people - runners, spectators, law enforcement officials and even passerby's are all...
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R&D & Innovation Has Never Been Closer to Customers: Irene Ng
Irene Ng (@Ireneclng), Director of International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (@WMGwarwick), answered questions about value & markets in the digital economy during the April 12 #CrowdChat hosted by CrowdsourcingWeek.com (@crowdweek). If you missed...
CrowdChat with Irene Ng: New Markets in the Digital Economy
How has our digital world influenced the manufacture, design, and delivery of products? What will our buying experiences be like in the future – a future when no firm is too big to fail? Join us on Friday, April 12 for a live Twitter #CrowdChat - to discuss new...
The Future of Crowdfunding, Berlin, April 17 to Focus on Long-Term Crowdfunding and Cultural Challenges
‘The Future of Crowdfunding’, the first conference in Berlin to focus on the long-term implications of crowdfunding, its legal and cultural challenges, will be held in on April 17 at the IHK Berlin. ‘The Future of Crowdfunding’ conference in Berlin, Germany on April...
Strategic Insights for Crowdfunding Campaigns
‘Crowdfunding Day’, the first conference in Amsterdam focusing on a new way of raising funds will be held on April 15 at the VU University of Amsterdam. It will deliver strategic insights for anyone who wants to explore the possibilities of crowdfunding for both...
Publication To Detail & Organize Crowdfunding Developments
The European crowdfunding market is an exciting place to be in. Crowdfunding as a new way to finance business, creative or social goals is revolutionizing the way businesses, artists or even the government thinks about financing. With this new opportunity, comes a...
Potential of Crowdsourcing in Advertising
One of the professional hazards of working in the Brand building industry is that, you’re extremely sensitive to advertising. The fact that it is all around and can range from anywhere between awesome to depraved is unsettling enough to push you off your rocker. The...
Road to Singapore: Warsaw to Host ‘The Future of Crowdsourcing’ Conference on April 12
The Future of Crowdsourcing is Poland's first conference on April 12 devoted solely to the potential of crowdsourcing for marketing purposes. Crowdsourcing Week is teaming up with MillionYou, Poland's premier crowdsourcing platform for marketing, to produce the...
Q&A with Wil Merritt, CEO of Zooppa: Crowd Creativity is a Resource for Brands
Zooppa is the global social network for creative talent. It partners with companies to bring its community members opportunities to create great ads for leading brands. Companies develop a creative brief describing their brand's attributes, the target audience, and...
When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work
Crowdsourcing is a great tool for solving problems, but just like any other tool--it doesn't solve everything. As the saying goes, when all you've got is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail. Crowdsourcing will never be the one-all solve-all tool for problem...
Road to Singapore: One-Day Summits on Crowdsourcing Coming to Warsaw, Amsterdam and Berlin
Crowdsourcing Week and our local partners - MillionYou, Douw&Koren and ikosom are producing one-day summits in Warsaw, Amsterdam and Berlin respectively. Ahead of the global conference in Singapore in June, these summits will highlight emerging trends in...
EdTech in Latin America: Three Trends to Watch
When it comes to technology’s education-related potential, it is largely the populations of developing economies who stand to benefit the most. This is certainly the case of Latin America, where the edtech market had a stellar 2012 and is poised to have an even better...
Should We Really Keep Politicians Away From Scientists?
Sir Paul Nurse has 'weight' when it comes to science. His position is the head of The Royal Society in the United Kingdom and in an address in Melbourne he suggested that we need to keep politicians away from scientists: "It also emphasizes the need to keep the...
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Geosocial Universe 3.0: The Integrated Giants [Graphic]
Alongside our third version of the Geosocial Universe, JESS3 created three additional snackables — think of them as moons in the orbit of the full graphic. Here’s the first one: The Integrated Giants. For this graphic, we used a survey from Pingdom, an uptime...