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BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning

BOLD // Crowd 2.0 Powered by AI and Machine Learning

This is our theme for Crowdsourcing Week in 2020:  BOLD // Crowd 2.0 powered by AI and Machine Learning. It’s where crowdsourcing takes a major transformative step rather than a series of incremental ones. At the same time as recognizing crowdsourcing as a business...

I’ll Sadly Miss Two Leaders in the World of Innovation

I’ll Sadly Miss Two Leaders in the World of Innovation

With sad regret I have recently seen the passing of two people who left an indelible mark both on the world of innovation and on me personally. Academic, business leader, author and “management guru” Professor Clayton Christensen, and serial entrepreneur Leila Janah,...

The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look...

A Guide to Financing a Book Through Crowdfunding

A Guide to Financing a Book Through Crowdfunding

A lot of new authors now are choosing to finance their e-book and cover their expenses throughout the writing process thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. You might be wishing you could write full-time but you couldn’t leave the stability of a paying job. The good news...

New for 2020: Investors Tapping into Crowd Intelligence

New for 2020: Investors Tapping into Crowd Intelligence

Crowdsourcing is proving to be the belle of the ball for attracting the attention of investors and sharing potential funding opportunities. Peer to peer lending has reached $25 billion while equity funding raised $2.5 billion through crowdsourcing. In the last five...

A Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia

A Snapshot of Crowdsourcing in Asia

When considering crowdsourcing across an entire continent, this can be only a cross-section of what has caught our attention. The selected examples have been chosen to show the flexibility and almost ubiquitous nature of crowdsourcing as a powerful tool for aims...