Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) 2013, the first global conference on open innovation for enterprise, partners with Talenthouse India to provide an international platform for the creative community. Staying true to its objective of collaboration to make outstanding...
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Can Quality Come from the Crowd?
A few weeks ago, I came across a new Brazilian startup, Widbook – a.k.a. the YouTube of Books (according to Mashable). A sort of literary social network with a crowd-based twist, Widbook is a space where aspiring writers can put their work on display and collaborate...
The Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing
To garner any lasting benefits from Crowdsourcing, going 'out there' needs internal trust. Without that trust much energy will be expended by a few people, only to see potentially business changing ideas fall on to infertile soil. There are some key things that your...
A Quality Framework for Crowds
The number 1 issue facing the entire wave of crowdsourcing companies today is quality. Everyone can setup a service that is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time, but quality is holding the industry back. In some recent discussions, we came up with a simple...
The Geosocial Universe 3.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]
In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking. In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The...
Why 2013 will be the International Year of Crowdsourcing
I've been thinking long and hard about what to call 2013. After saying 2011 would need to be the International Year of Resilience (much still needed) and 2012 the International Year of Problem Solving, I'm thinking now that Crowdsourcing (the idea of seeking...
Jokers In The Pack
In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, the villainous Joker uses crowds to facilitate anarchy. He crowd sources his rebellion via a twisted yet innate understanding of the collective. That it fails is a function of how the culture of popular commerce feels guilty about...
Leadership Skills in Open Innovation: More Collaboration and Different Control
I think it happens often enough that when an organization opens its doors to the outside, even if it is just to watch the competition, a climate of insecurity or fear emerges within the leadership and management. Organizations have lived for many years within closed...
Future of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding has been an increasingly talked about topic for several years in various contexts, even though the biggest applications and value are just being created. Since HR 3606, commonly known as the JOBS Act, was written into law in April 2012 in the US, many...
Crowdsourcing – A Super-Win Situation for All
In an incredible short span of time Talenthouse India has creatively collaborated with several brands of national and international standing. This recognition was only possible because there is enough authenticity and substance in the concept of crowdsourcing. There...
Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype
Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current...
The Tipping Point in Business and the Cultural Innovator
The recent high profile demise of beloved UK entertainment retail brand, HMV, promoted a feeling of national mourning, as another established and seemingly permanent business began to disappear. But it also represents a tipping point for business as we know it. We...
My Nation My Anthem – Crowdsourcing India’s National Anthem
When a nation comes together- magic happens, time and again the history of mankind has proven that harmony can achieve extraordinary results. One such feat is about to get accomplished through My Nation My Anthem, a crowdsourced project by Talenthouse India. How do we...
Biased Crowd Funding: “Invest in a Younger You”
AlumniFunder is a new crowd funding startup based out of Los Angeles. They connect alumni at top universities like Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, MIT with entrepreneurs and innovators who are still in school. They are building a marketplace for disruptive...
In Chile, Government Takes a Hands-On Approach in Promoting Innovation
When it comes to sources of innovation, government isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. In Chile, however, that’s not the case. No, new technologies aren’t flowing out of the legislature, nor is President Sebastián Piñera giving up his day job to go the...
How Social Media Can Help Find Your Missing Child
Find Your Missing Child (FYMC) was founded after a social media and email campaign helped one man find his missing child. Its goal is to educate families about the community-building powers of social media and email to aid in the search of a missing child. Using...
Destination Singapore!
We have 117 days to go before Singapore and the first global conference on crowdsourcing and open innovation. The Crowdsourcing Week team is a global beehive with everybody buzzily working to produce a stellar event in Singapore! Since we work across so many different...
Talenthouse Predicts a Great 2013 for Crowdsourcing in India
We at Talenthouse India welcome the second month of this year while taking pride on the laurels of the last year. There were tons of creative submissions, various brands and mentors to cater to while enabling fantastic community creations in all genres of art,...
The Future of Manufacturing is Upon Us
The burgeoning shift in the manufacturing sector has been coming for a touch over a decade and has, I would suggest, now reached your front gate. A whole confluence of factors that include 3D printing, crowdsourcing, home engineering and free-scale idea generation...
Using the Crowd to Predict
One of the earliest scientific understandings of the crowd came from the brilliant Francis Galton. According to his Wikipedia entry Galton was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, Geographer, inventor, meteorologist,...
Webinar: Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation
Chaordix is hosting a live webinar via the Conference Board of Canada on "Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation" this coming Tuesday, Feb. 5th at 1pm EST. The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation, a live webinar on...
Why Encouraging Childlike Creativity is Essential in Business
Kids are naturally creative. If left to their own devices with crayons, paint—even a cardboard box, wonderful things often blossom. So what happens as we get older? Many people think kid “lose” that creativity. However, it’s really the grownups who take it away from...
Y-Combinator Funds First Non-Profit Startup: A Crowdfunding Platform for Medical Aid
Watsi is a crowdfunding platform that connects you with patients in serious need of low-cost medical care and enables you to fund high-impact treatments. The dynamic team from Watsi has a simple enough goal: to help people dying of treatable illnesses because they...
CrowdChat with AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani: Innovation in the Airline Industry
For the next #CrowdChat we turn our eyes toward the sky for a discussion with the CEO of one of the most innovative and disruptive airlines in the industry, AirAsia X. Azran Osman-Rani was appointed AirAsia X CEO in 2007, at the impressive age of 36. Under his...