What is Crowdsourcing Week’s new year resolution? Well, one is to deepen the online dialogue about crowdsourcing, and we’ll be ramping up our #CrowdChat schedule in 2013 to bring you a number of industry experts for insightful, accessible chats on the powerful...
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Interview of Siham Belouadheh, Marketing Manager France of 99designs
On November 27th, 99designs announced the launch of a localized French website (99design.fr) and presented its Country Manager for France, Siham Belouadheh. Siham works closely with Eva Missling, 99designs’ General Manager of Europe, and will be supporting...
HunchBuzz: A Crowdsourcing Startup Helps Companies Reduce R&D Costs
HunchBuzz is a new New Zealand based startup on the block that provides cloud based customer & employee engagement platform. HunchBuzz enables entrepreneurs and businesses to strategically generate and manage innovative internal & external ideas, though...
Astronomers Welcome All to Identify Stars in Andromeda Galaxy
Astronomers are inviting the public to search Hubble Space Telescope images of the Andromeda galaxy to help identify star clusters and increase understanding of how galaxies evolve. The new Andromeda Project, set to study thousands of high-resolution Hubble images, is...
Razoo Helps Charities Fundraise & Engage Effectively: Q&A with Lesley Mansford
Lesley Mansford, CEO of Razoo answered a few questions for us on Razoo, a social fundraising platform that is changing the dynamics of corporate and personal charity. Razoo endeavors to make it easy to not only support your favorite cause, but is also proving to be a...
NASA Turns to the Crowds For New Website Ideas
NASA.gov is looking for change and is turning to its users for input. NASA has opened up a forum on the platform Ideascale. An innovation platform, for collaboration, Ideascale can help bring out the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders by giving them a...
Canada Tourism Turns to 35 Million Directors for Travel Video Ad
The Canada Tourism Commission wanted to bring a fresh perspective to its "Visit Canada" pitch and they turned to the team that knows Canada best - Citizens. The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) challenged 35 million Canadians to capture their country on film - and...
The Power of Crowds: Why Should We Listen.
Everyday we come across examples that demonstrate the power of crowds. It is evident that crowd-cooperation comes naturally to the human race and this is a potential that we have only just begun to experience. What happens when crowds co-innovate? They are able to...
Crowdsourcing Week: Call for Writers
Join our editorial team! Crowdsourcing Week is looking for writers in the crowdsourcing and open innovation space to join our team of bloggers and media contributors. If you are looking to be a leading global voice on the next big business innovation that can disrupt...
Self-Proclaimed Kickstarter Reject Creates Open Source Crowdfunding Website
After Kickstarter released stringent rules governing hardware projects, startup company Lockitron decided it was time to take action. To fund their hardware project, the founders wrote their source crowdfunding platform, which is now open sourced. According to their...
Crowdfunding Infographic – The US JOBS Act Explained
Crowdfunding is a way that businesses can seek money from a "crowd" to start-up, finance a new product, or expand their operations. Instead of pursuing big VC's and investors, businesses pursue the crowd. The "crowd" pledges money to the effort - could be a start-up,...
A Framework for Political Crowdfunding
The recent presidential election in the United States was the most expensive race in history, with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spending about $1 billion respectively on their efforts to win the White House. While both candidates raised hundreds of millions of...
Razoo Kicks Off Five “Giving Days” Across the U.S. to Raise $15 million for Local Charities
Razoo, the fastest growing crowdfunding platform for causes, announces its first-ever week of giving – a week of five of Razoo’s “Giving Days”. Giving Days are powerful 24-hour online fundraising competitions that unite communities around causes. “Apart from being a...
Open Innovation: Needs versus Opportunities
Too often, open innovation initiatives at big companies focus on needs – and needs only. You have a specific challenge to solve, you write up rfp’s and you reach out in your network. Solving problems is an important element of open innovation and it can bring lots of...