Tag: research
Crowdsourcing to Accelerate this New Decade
by Clive Reffell | Jan 19, 2021 | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
2020’s upheaval of lifestyles and work practices has seen many business winners and losers. Social distancing, and in some countries curfews, have floored many leisure and hospitality companies. Travel clampdowns have grounded...
Read MoreFour Benefits of Using Crowdsourcing in the Marketing Branding Process
by Grayson Wood | Nov 24, 2020 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work
Crowdsourcing is increasingly acknowledged as an efficient way to pursue business objectives through harnessing the abilities, might, ideas, and creativity of groups of people who could be dispersed all around the globe. It...
Read MoreTop 5 Crowdsourcing Mobile Networking Data Performance on a Global Scale
by Clive Reffell | Nov 19, 2020 | Crowdsourcing
The “work from home” revolution ignited stronger demand than ever before for mobile telecom services. Consumers are also more reliant on their mobile networks for education and entertainment during lockdowns and other periods of...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Infrared Space Telescope Target Selection and Data Assessment
by Clive Reffell | Nov 13, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing
Undergraduate students have been trained to classify galaxies as part of a project involving a unique space telescope that specializes in collecting infrared light. The wavelengths it will record were initially emitted by stars...
Read MoreReasons Why Corporate Businesses Turn to Rewards Crowdfunding
by Clive Reffell | Sep 29, 2020 | cocreation, Crowdfunding
There are numerous reasons major corporations use reward crowdfunding. Key factors include that it is highly accurate field research conducted in real time. The same motivations that make a startup entrepreneur want to validate...
Read MoreThe Power of Crowdsourcing for Telcos
by Clive Reffell | Aug 17, 2020 | Crowdsourcing
With the imminent arrival of 5G services, network providers are vying to provide the best possible services and consumer expectations are rising. In order to monitor changes to service delivery and relative customer satisfaction...
Read MoreHow Crowdsourcing Helps Manufacturers Innovate
by Paula Wilson | Aug 4, 2020 | Crowd Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation
The novelty of using crowdsourcing for innovation is not a new one. In fact, a few years back, one of Crowdsourcing Week’s own featured writers, Marcus Barber, talked about how the future of manufacturing was upon us, and...
Read MoreCitizen Scientists Continue to Boost Valuable Ecological Research
by Clive Reffell | Jul 20, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing
A wide range of ecological projects based on crowdsourced Citizen Science models are now being undertaken around the world, at local, national and international scales. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, established in 1976,...
Read MoreHow Crowdsourcing Solved the Riddle of a Twister
by Clive Reffell | Jul 7, 2020 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing
For most of his life, Anton Seimon has been fascinated by the dynamics and formation of some of the strongest forces on Earth – tornadoes. Yet the scientific community did not know for sure whether tornadoes formed from the sky...
Read MoreA Scientific Analysis of Choosing the Right Words for Crowdfunding Success
by Nuno Arroteia | Apr 20, 2020 | Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is by no means easy: most projects fail. Effective communication of crowdfunding opportunities presents unique information challenges for entrepreneurs who must convince funders to support their project, while at...
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