Crowdsourcing

A New Way To Make Money From Old Books?

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Creative Commons Ebooks, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Successful Crowdfunding, How to Crowdfund a Book, unglue.it, Crowdfunding Book, Free Ebook, Free eBooks, Unglue, Crowdfunding Author, Books News

Unglue.it is a new website that launched on Thursday with a unique proposition: it wants people to come together and pay copyright holders to release ...

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Crowdfunding, a Burgeoning Phenomenon to Raise Money for Some Enterprises and Nonprofits

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Conventional Loans, Sec, National Public Radio, Nonprofit Organizations, Financing, Nonprofit Funding, Alternative Financing, Small Business Loans, Beer Maker, Congress, Financing for Crafters, Barack Obama, Small Business Owners, Working Capital Loans, Borrowing Money, Peer to Peer Lending, Business News, Lending Programs, Kickstarter, Financing for Artists, Crowdsourcing, Credit, Crowd Funding, Small Business News
Jerry Chautin

Kiki Karpus invests in start-ups and emerging businesses -- well, sort of. Instead of choosing the companies based upon the likelihood of their succes...

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Patients' Voices Are Changing Medical Devices

Riva Greenberg | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Design, Medical Devices, Diabetes, Health Care, Crowdsourcing, Big Pharma, Healthy Living News
Riva Greenberg

Traditionally pharma and medical device companies design health tools for health care professionals and in clinical settings. What's been missing is any thought about the end user: the patient.

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Enabling Anyone, Anywhere to Help Mothers Globally With Samahope

Leila Chirayath Janah | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women's Health Child Birth, Sierra Leone Women, West Africa Fistula Foundation, Samasource, Crowdsourcing, Women's Health, Global Motherhood, Samahope, Sierra Leone, Obstetric Fistula, Childbirth, Impact News
Leila Chirayath Janah

This Mother's Day, we are offering cards on our site to fund surgeries for women in need. In honor of mothers all over the world who work hard to take care of their families each day, Samahope enables anyone to give the gift of saving a woman's life.

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Observations From the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Fan-Funded Feature Films Established Their Presence

Steven C. Beer | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Tribeca, Film Funding, Jobs Act, Tribeca Film Festival 2012, Crowd Funding, Crowdsourcing, Kickstarter, Tribeca Film Festival, Entertainment News
Steven C. Beer

As the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival closed with several successful fan-funded films, we can only expect to see an increase of crowdfunded films at next year's festival.

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Four Reasons You Should Use Crowdsourcing

Ramon Nuez | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Crowdsourcing Technology, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Crowdsourcing, Business News
Ramon Nuez

How many times have you said it? How many times have you said -- "only if I had two more people," "only if I had a bigger budget," "only if I had mor...

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Coachella: Crowd vs. Community -- What Is the Difference?

Amanda Slavin | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Community, Coachella 2012, Coachella Music Festival, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Coachella, Coachella Community, Culture News
Amanda Slavin

With a strong foundation, a solid team, a concept and support system in place that is driven by a soul, a crowd can become an opportunity to bound together individuals in a positive way.

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JOBS Act: The Winners And Losers

Christopher Hytry Derrington | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Investing, Small Business, Friends and Family Investing, Onshoring, Crowdfunding, Angel Investing, Rural America, Crowdsourcing, Sec, Venture Capital, Securities and Exchange Commission, Jobs Act, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Jobs, Small Business News
Christopher Hytry Derrington

This pending law is a game-changer for the biggest risk-takers in American Capitalism: the entrepreneurs who are creating jobs by starting and growing companies and the investors who provide them with the financial resources to do so. I'm one of the winners of this bill -- but that doesn't mean I'm not attuned to the losers.

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Watch: 60 Seconds of Social Media

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: turntable.fm, Citizen Journalism, Sxsw, Crowdsourcing, SXSW Interactive, Sxsw Innovations, Social Media Platforms, Sxsw Social Media, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

As I lie on my back, felled by the SXSW flu, I bring you another week of social media learning. We wrap up the hot topics at SXSW Interactive -- such as the rise of citizen journalism -- and take a look at crowdsourcing.

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Should Governments Crowdsource Science Research Funding?

Mark Drapeau | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Fundageek, Petridish, Crowdsourcing, Science News
Mark Drapeau

Why are private companies like Petridish and Fundageek providing platforms for crowdsourcing research, while agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation aren't?

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Democracy and Smart Mobs

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Nicolas Berggruen Institute, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networks, Social Networking, Foreign Affairs, Political Activism, Crowdsourcing, Disruptive Technology, Democracy, Arab Awakening, Facebook, Arab Spring, Nicolas-Berggruen-Institute, Nicolas Berggruen, World News
Nathan Gardels

In our age, the advent of social networks and the transparency of shared networks challenge all hierarchies from monopoly of the mainstream media to professional knowledge protected by credentials, such as doctors, to dictators protected by force.

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Crowdsourcing Creativity -- Is This Any Way to Get Ahead?

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Globalization, Creative Capitalism, Crowdsourcing, Creative Class, Outsourcing, Crowdfunding Ecommerce, Outsourcing Jobs, Crowd Sourcing Creativity, Crowdsourcing Digital Jobs, Business News
Russell C. Smith

One of the ways people and companies have altered the rules of the online marketplace is by embracing the practice of crowdsourcing creativity, often with questionable results.

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Is Crowdsourcing the Next Big Thing?

Ramon Nuez | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Crowd Sourcing, What Is Crowdsourcing, Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, Business News
Ramon Nuez

One of the primary advantages of crowdsourcing is that the organization now has access to a wider range of expertise that would be unavailable to it otherwise.

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Zach Carter

CFPB Crowdsources Nominations For Key Advisory Posts

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Consumer Advisory Board, Richard Cordray, Video, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Financial Reform, Economy, Fed, Cfpb, Crowdsourcing, Regulation, Jobs, Federal Reserve, Obama, Subprime, Consumer Protection, Housing Bubble, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a significant break with traditional federal policy, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is appealing directly to the public...

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Enhanced Design Research Performance Through Crowdsourcing

Soren Petersen | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Design, Social Media, Change, Innovation, Paradigm Shift, Crowdsourcing, New Research, Business News
Soren Petersen

New design research paradigms, processes and methods are vital to an organizations' ability to sustain their competitive advantage. The days of open-e...

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Designing With Marginalized Users

Soren Petersen | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Design, Poverty, Developing Countries, Development, Crowdsourcing, Impact News
Soren Petersen

Crowdsourcing a challenge can provide multiple viewpoints and give a quick overview of emerging trends and beliefs within the design community.

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Can Crowdfunding and Social Networks Forge Ties to Kickstart the Economy?

April Rudin | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Crowdfunding Law, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Angel Investors, Investors, Crowdsourcing, Unemployment, Rockthehub, Kickstarter, Business News
April Rudin

The U.S House of Representatives passed a bill last week known as HR2930 -- the crowdfunding bill. The eventual passage of this bill would propel the growth of sites like Kickstarter, Rockethub and others as new small-ish investors will clamor for access.

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Big Pharma Is Innovating With Social Media -- Really

Rosina Samadani | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Ginger.io, West Wireless Health, Open Data, Apps, Crowdsourcing, Pfizer, Innovation, Sanofi-Aventis, Patients, iPhone Apps, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Pharmaceutical Companies, Social Media, Pharmaceutical Industry, Diabetes, True Ventures, Technology, Health Care, Business News
Rosina Samadani

When big pharma leverages technology, open data and social media to develop innovative patient-facing apps, it's a win to the fourth power.

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The Crowdsourcing of Work: Welcome to the Antique Shop

Liz Ryan | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Workplace, Advice, Employment, Crowdsourcing, Business News
Liz Ryan

I'm an HR consultant/career coach and a workplace commentator, so when I hang with my friends or go to networking events or chat with the other elemen...

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The Heartbeat of Bogotá: Engaging the Population of a City to Reinvent Itself for the Digital Age

Don Tapscott | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Open Network Government, Government Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Open Government, Crowdsourcing, Small Government Technology, Crowdsource, Government Technology, Crowd Sourcing, Local Government, World News
Don Tapscott

Around the world our cities are in desperate need of rejuvenation and transformation. Elected officials are scrambling to equip their cities for the 21st century, talking about creating "open," "networked," and "smart" cities.

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How Journalists Can Help Design for Peace

Soren Petersen | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Design, Innovation, Conflict Resolution, Middle East Peace, New Research, Crowdsourcing, Impact News
Soren Petersen

Journalists are schooled in investigating and reporting events objectively and when it comes to conflicts, they report on the progress of wars, gang v...

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Startup Evisors Bets On E-Advice

Reuters | Deborah L. Cohen | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Small Business, Startup Funding, Crowdsourcing, Reuters, Startups, Small Business News and Trends, Advice, Startup Evisors, Small Business News

By Deborah L. Cohen CHICAGO (Reuters) - As a student at top U.S. universities, Norwegian entrepreneur Fredrik Maro quickly learned it's...

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Welcome to the Antique Shop Part Three: Will Granular Work Replace the Full-time Work Week?

Liz Ryan | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Careers, Jobs, Workplace, Crowdsourcing, Employment, Granular Work, Temp Workers, Business News
Liz Ryan

Crowdsourcing lets companies piece out work to people who can do it on the buyer's schedule and to the buyer's specifications, and to learn what works for them and which providers work the way they like to work.

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Can Crowdsourcing Disrupt Education?

Reuters | Deborah L. Cohen | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Education, Small Business, Video, Startup, Crowdsourcing Education, College, Education Products, Crowdsourcing, Reuters, Startups, Crowdsourcing Startup, Small Business News and Trends, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News

By Deborah L. Cohen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former teacher Alex Grodd is betting on social media to solve a big problem in education: how to...

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Ron Paul: Live by the Internet, Die by the Internet

Colin Delany | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Internet, Moneybomb, Ron Paul, Crowdsourcing, Online Fundraising, Ron Paul Racism, Ron Paul Race Wars, Ron Paul Bigotry, Ron Paul Newsletters, Politics News
Colin Delany

The Internet gives old, old documents a new shot at prominence, including those newsletters apparently aimed at winning at least a few of the white supremacist crowd over to the Libertarian creed.

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