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Debate: The Ethics of Crowdsourcing

February 22, 2012 by Ross Dawson
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Is crowdsourcing exploitative? [read more]

The Realities of Intellectual Property and Crowdsourcing: Don’t Hold on too Tight

December 9, 2011 by Ross Dawson
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If you crowdsource your work and ideas, could you lose your best to others? [read more]

The Economist on online freelancing and the future of work: crowdsourcing goes mainstream

May 21, 2010 by Ross Dawson
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The Economist this week addresses the wonderful world of online freelancing and crowdsourcing, under the rubrik Work in the digital age. The full article is well worth a read. The article points to the potential for online freelancing and piecework to account for a substantial part of global labor. While The Economist has touched on the... [read more]

What SXSW Taught Me About Social Systems & Business

March 27, 2010 by David Armano
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Less than a week has passed since the interactive portion of SXSW, a Mecca for the world's digerati, wrapped up. Some have written scathing reviews vowing never to return and others provided a more balanced look. From a sociological point of view, I'd argue that events like this serve up insights by the pound, if you are willing to... [read more]

New ventures in political crowdsourcing

March 26, 2010 by Ross Dawson
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User-contributed content is often far more up-to-date than other sources. I just stumbled across some interesting current news while browsing through Wikipedia's List of crowdsourcing projects. The UK Conservative Party has launched Your Budget Response 2010, a website that is intended to allow anyone to identify problems, oversights... [read more]

5 reasons crowdsourcing is stupid

January 3, 2010 by Kate Carruthers
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Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped days any way to make innovation better-cheaper-faster is extremely desirable. But crowdsourcing is just one of the many tools we have at our disposal, and each tool is suited to... [read more]

Nussbaum on Design, Disruption and Innovation

January 3, 2010 by David Armano
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Originally posted on the Dachis Group Collaboratory Sharing ideas and insights with Bruce Nussbaum, contributing editor at BusinessWeek, is always a pleasure, so it's fitting that he's one of my first round table interviews. Previously assistant managing editor in charge of BusinessWeek's innovation and design coverage, he was named... [read more]

Crowdsourcing Infuentials Just Like Us

October 2, 2009 by Tac Anderson
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Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr I’ve told you that I use my Posterous site to collect stuff I find around the Web. Well earlier this week I found this great article by TechDirt and posted it here. A bunch of folks have sent in this silly opinion piece at Forbes, claiming that crowdsourcing is a myth. The reasoning? Because there... [read more]

The First Social Media Car

September 10, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Baskin
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 Fiat is going to build and promote its 2010 Mio concept car based on ideas of consumers submitted via social media.The company's website asks "In the future we're building, what should a car have that makes it mine, while still working for others?" It has prompted 1,700 ideas and more than 40,000 comments, mostly about things like... [read more]

Power to the people

July 23, 2009 by seth levine
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Over the last 6 months I’ve noticed a large number of business plans that are incorporating some form of “crowdsourcing” into their business models. Crowdsourcing, popularized by James Surowiecki excellent book The Wisdom of Crowds, seeks to harness the power of the masses with the idea that the “crowd” can often produce a better result... [read more]

The Emerging Trend of Hybrid Marketing Model

June 29, 2009 by Eric Tsai
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A day after my last post on how traditional media is deteriorating, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer speaking at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, argued that traditional media will not bounce back, all content consumed will be digital, we can debate if that may be in one, two, five or ten years. In some respects the... [read more]

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