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• Micro-consulting versus crowd sourcing

  
  Closer To The Ideal — Authority: 127
  Jarred Myers dreams up a micro consulting scenario: Let me indulge you with a role play, factory owner Jimmy is debating replacing his aging machinery, he has 4 options, rent, buy, finance or push it till it breaks, what does he do? This may look like an exam question, which it indeed could be, but it’s a real ...
  2 days ago

• Brain waves

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  Stop. This a waste of your time and your life. It makes no discernible difference in anything that matters. Go tend your garden. Finish the novel. Get a real job. Take a nap. All these excellent people who come and go and write and lurk. All these excellent conversations. So what? Vacuums are for filling. Go in ...
  2 days ago

• Do you have a strategy for social bookmarking and crowdsourcing?

  
  Socialmedia.biz — Authority: 571
  Excerpt from Survival Guide Chapter 7: Sharing, not self-promotion, should be top of mind H ere is part 7 of the series I will post over the next few months based on chapters from my new book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization . The book is meant to be a guide to building an ...
  1 week ago

• Enterprise 2.0 : An interview With MindTouchs Mark Fidelman - Part II

  
  The India Street — Authority: 109
  InPart 2 of the Interview with Mark,I discuss  specifics like how E2.0 can impactbusiness in  real life and the prospects it holds for India. Clickthe title to read Part 2 as well of this very  informative interview. read more
  1 week ago

• Open Social Media Framework for Museums

  
  Museum Marketing — Authority: 121
  On Monday I spoke at the Museums Association Social Media, which was an interesting event with a lot of institutions sharing what they are doing with across a whole range of social media platforms. One surprise to me was that most organisations said they were approaching social media on a project by project basis, ...
  1 week ago

• New AT&T iPhone App Adds the Power of Crowdsourcing to Network Enhancement Initiatives

  
  Cell Phone News and Cell Phone Reviews: HotCellularPhone.com — Authority: 148
  AT&T today announced the launch of AT&T Mark the Spot, an iPhone app that enables customers to quickly and easily provide feedback on AT&T network performance in a specific location.  As reported when AT&T released 3Q financial results in October, drive tests conducted by an outside firm show ...
  1 week ago

• The audacity of… wonder?

  
  Worldview — Authority: 127
  Over the weekend, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conducted an interesting crowd-sourcing exercise wherein it challenged people to locate ten red balloons scattered across the United States and report their locations back to DARPA. A team led by researchers from MIT (.pdf) won the ...
  1 week ago

• 10 Trends for 2010 by @stutts

  
  LitmanLive.co.uk — Authority: 112
  10 Trends To Watch In 2010 View more documents from David Stutts . Interesting to note that crowd sourcing is one of the top trends for 2010. It’s been fascinating reading at length the thoughts of Amelia , John and many others to name just two, with Peperami being the case in point in this instance. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• MIT Wins DARPA Balloon Hunt

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 428
  The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) red balloon challenge that promoted the use of social networking to find the latitude and longitude of 10 red weather balloons scattered throughout the United States. The win comes with a $40,000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Outsourcing Fact Checking

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 528
  Paul Spinrad guest blogs at boingboing and floats the idea of outsourcing fact checking (Ill support any proposal whatsoever that improves the fact checking process, believe me) but he adds the notion of, in essence, crowd sourcing linguistic annotation: Now, what if these fact-checkers didnt just vet and correct ...
  2 weeks ago

• CrowdCampaign Makes Crowd Sourcing Simple

  
  Convince and Convert Blog: Where Social Media and Email Collide — Authority: 459
  The denizens of Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the social Web are a sharp group, generally speaking. You can learn a lot about yourself, your brand, and your products and services by listening to the desires of your fans and your community. I crowd sourced my facial hair, and kept my beard. Del Monte crowd ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wikipedia and Crowd Sourcing

  
  bexdeep's blog — Authority: 92
  Wikipedia stands out in a mass with integrity and undisputable value addition to the community. It marks the beginning of cultural revolution in internet history and a source of inspiration for today’s online social community. But what is happening with Wikipedia? Why is it that every year, the Wikipedia community ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kom je ook?3

  
  Museum Marketing — Authority: 121
  I have spent the last few days in the Netherland’s attending and speaking at Kom je Ook? 3 (which roughly translates as ‘Are you coming’) an event run three or four times a year by MediaMatic in Amsterdam. The theme of the event was ‘The audience as programmer’ and it brought together speakers from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Co-producing the museum

  
  Museum Marketing — Authority: 121
  This is the keynote that I am delivering at the Kom je ook?  conference today in the Netherlands. I was asked to speak about ‘the audience as the programmer’ which fits perfectly with my personal view. The heart of what I am going to talk about today is change. Change in the internet, change in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Woot.com Launches Deal Crowdsourcing Site

  
  Community 2.0 — Authority: 120
  The venerable spot for deal-seekers just went social. Woot.com has introduced Deals.Woot.com, an attempt to turn its rabid fans into a crowd-sourced deal finding-and-evaluating machine that finds dozens of bargains worthy of a “w00t, w00t!”says Wired writer, Ryan Singel. Singel continues, While Woot isn’t the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crowdsourcers Are Bidding to Buy the Pabst Brewing Company

  
  Asylum — Authority: 723
  Filed under: Booze , Weird News For about the price of a pint at your local pub, you could own the Pabst Brewing Company. Using the principals of "crowdsourcing," two advertising agencies are attempting to raise enough money to buy the 165-year-old beer company, currently on the ... Read more   Permalink ...
  3 weeks ago

• DesignBay Raises Capital, Acquires DesignCrowd

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 742
  DesignBay , an online graphic design crowdsourcing company based in Australia, has acquired and merged with US freelance design website DesignCrowd . DesignBay has been growing at an average of 21% month on month for the last year, and the new entity now boasts over 12,000 graphic designers and studios from around ...
  3 weeks ago

• Libraries and crowdsourcing - 6 examples

  
  Musings about librarianship — Authority: 99
   Crowd sourcing is defined as "for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group crowd of people or community in the form of an open call." The key here is that the work has to be done by non-employees so a group of librarians from your institution ...
  3 weeks ago

• Romance sites seem like a license to print money

  
  Closer To The Ideal — Authority: 127
  At some point I’d like to work on one of the dating sites. They seem to often make huge money. Lots of people meet their mates online nowadays. It is clearly one of the main things that people use the Internet for. And some really interesting sociology data comes out of it . The interesting thing on the OK Cupid ...
  4 weeks ago

• White House Development 2.0 Challenge

  
  Kin Lane — Authority: 125
  The White House recently announced the Development 2.0 Challenge , a  Tech Competition for the Developing World . They are attempting to crowd-source international development initiatives and get away from programs being designed by experts and government officials without sufficient input from citizens, social ...
  4 weeks ago

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