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...
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3 Crowd Engagement Strategies
The Internet is a wonderful thing. The above gem appeared on my LinkedIn feed and I couldn't help myself but think about how accurate this is on so many levels. Successful CEOs know the importance of effective staff development, but are always torn by the fact that...
Crowdfunding and Innovation
Many a good innovation dies on the vine due to the lack of funds to make a prototype or take it to market. Crowdfunding is bridging this gap. The main idea with reward and equity crowdfunding is that the innovators and their helpers set up a fund raise as a new...
Ranking Innovation in Asia – Does it matter?
Where is Asia heading to? What is needed for innovation in Asia to blossom even faster? Both, very common matters which have been scrutinized and debated umpteenth of times. Dr Bruno Lanvin was in Kuala Lumpur recently for the World Innovation Forum 2013, talking...
Why P&G and GE Ventures are on Crowdfunding Platforms
The naysayers like to write-off crowdsourcing as a marketing tool for brands that shortchange consumers for ideas. While it is true that a shallow crowdsourcing campaign can do that, companies that incorporate crowd innovation into their DNA not only create...
Why Every Decision Maker Should Understand the Importance of Crowd Economy
Planning longterm strategies for organizations is becoming increasingly difficult in the current environment of economic instability, ever-changing technology and resource deficiency. But the very roadblocks I mention above pave the path for a future where...
Creative Crowdsourcing Gives Endless Possibilities To Brands Worldwide
What makes the consumers go gaga over brands? The attitude that brands sell. There was a time when attitude selling was a myth but today with changing trends and over exposure of media plus with the world becoming a much smaller place, people have changed and so have...
5 Things To Know About the SEC Crowdfunding Rules
Crowdfunding is a part of the 'Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act' - a 2012 law that aims to help the economy by financing startups and small biz, hard hit by recession and lack of finance. Last week the SEC released the ground rules for crowd funded...
Group Brainstorming: 60 Years On
Creativity and innovation have become the buzzwords of the day. For instance, in the 2012 IBM CEO study, more than half of 1700 surveyed CEOs saw innovation as a key resource of sustained economic value. In the same study, 61% of CEOs reported creativity as being one...
Solaborate Aids Social Collaboration for Tech Professionals
I always say that "likes do not save lives" and predict that the future will be about the emergence of web-based channels that allow you to be more productive with your online presence. I like to call this social productivity and I talk about it in a great deal of...
Jeff Bezos on Innovation: Don’t Wait Out For The Lone Genius
Jeff Bezos has been in the news for his business acumen and for his recent purchase of The Washington Post. In his first interview after the purchase, Bezos spoke with Inc on innovation. His quote on innovation stuck out for me. Jeff Bezos, says - "In my experience,...
Next Logical Step in the Crowdfunding Revolution
The crowdfunding revolution is upon us. Whether you're talking rewards-based crowdfunding, donation, peer to peer lending, or equity crowdfunding, this financing option is growing into a stable and viable option for startups, entrepreneurs and businesses. But policies...
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...
Crowds for Tribes
For nearly a year now we’ve been working on a production to promote domestic adventure tourism among Indian youth. This project has been conceptualized in collaboration with an American adventure enthusiast and filmmaker. However, the reason it hasn't taken off the...
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,...
Missed Our Crowdchat on Equity Crowdfunding? Here is a Recap
We chatted with Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - on Twitter, talking all things crowdfunding and equity. If you missed the chat, we have the "Storify" version for you, below. To be notified of future...
How Coca-Cola and Energizer Are Boosting Their Media ROI Through Crowdsourcing
A new whitepaper on video content marketing, written collaboratively by experts from Coca-Cola, Energizer, Asatsu-DK, eYeka, Unruly and ThisMoment, contains valuable and practical information on how to create, select and share video content online. Consumers are...
KPMG: Businesses are Turning Crowdsourcing Communities into “Assets” to Build Value
KPMG’s global crowdsourcing tool, Crowd Connection®, powered by the Chaordix Crowd Intelligence™ offers organisations insights from a customisable online community to provide employee engagement, market intelligence, brand feedback and product co-creation and...
YOU Have Helped Digitize Millions of Books – Through Online Collaboration!
Raise your hand if you have ever sworn at your computer while keying hard to read letters to prove you are human. Yes, I am talking about CAPTCHA - that distorted text that makes users squint their eyes to decipher a tricky combination of words and letters and spend...
Join Darren Westlake of Crowdcube on #Crowdchat
Are you an entrepreneur or investor with questions on crowdfunding for equity? Here is your chance. Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - will be talking all things crowdfunding and equity on our next...
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...
5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement
Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...
The Art of CrowdWriting
This is a fact: you can write a book in few hours. And how you do that? By crowdwriting. When I launched my company NulisBuku.com, the first online self-publishing company in Indonesia, back in 2010, I thought people would write a book in 'traditional' way as I knew...
Public Sector Crowdsourcing in Malaysia – Citizen Engagement
People around the world are now jumping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon for a variety of intended outcomes. Being in the innovation space, its fairly encouraging to see that the Malaysian government’s foray into crowdsourcing had, in fact, started a few years ago (and...