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Crowdsourcing Goes Green: Earth Day Engagement

Every year since 1970, people have taken one day out of the year to celebrate our planet. Earth Day, April 22nd, was instituted as a way to raise...

0 replies - 320 views - 05/21/13 by Jessie Bauters in Articles

Deloitte, xPrize and Singularity University team up on innovation

Organisations around the world are striving to become more innovative, whether that’s in producing new products, improving processes, or simply doing...

0 replies - 215 views - 05/19/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Can you crowdsource a city?

Crowdfunding has really taken off over the past year, with the likes of Kickstarter building on the work done by the microfinance industry to create a...

0 replies - 219 views - 05/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Can local news be crowdsourced?

I wrote earlier this year about the difficult challenges facing the proposed local tv stations that are popping up throughout Britain.  The challenge...

0 replies - 141 views - 05/07/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Applying crowdsourcing to humanitarian disasters

Imagery for the Crowd is a fascinating project currently in beta stages.  It’s being run by the US Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit....

0 replies - 232 views - 04/26/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Can you crowdsource medical diagnosis?

Crowdsourcing has never been more popular.  My last blog showcased the latest NASA Hackathon that saw thousands come together to offer solutions to...

0 replies - 1095 views - 04/24/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Twitter shows us the good and bad of crowdsourcing the news

If you were glued to your Twitter updates last Monday through Friday, you were probably more aware of what was happening in Boston than most law...

0 replies - 233 views - 04/24/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Boston Marathan bombing shows where lack of privacy is a good thing

The speed with which the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were identified was a remarkable sign that we’re in the age of ubiquitous photos and video of...

0 replies - 350 views - 04/20/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Quirky and GE team up to monetize GEs intellectual property

Using social media to help with product development is not a new thing.  The likes of Lego, Volvo and Ford for instance have been advanced users,...

0 replies - 716 views - 04/11/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Assorted social business links

Some interesting social business related links here on topics such as the crowdsourcing of brain research and the sharing economy. Ginni Rometty on the future...

0 replies - 634 views - 03/12/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Assorted social business links

The following are some interesting links from around the web on social business today.  They cover the age old social media vs social business debate,...

0 replies - 835 views - 01/23/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Using social business to build a tank

Using the crowd to design new products is not a new thing.  Platforms have long existed to crowdsource things such as new logos or t-shirts. ...

0 replies - 866 views - 01/11/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles