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[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Crowdsourcing is Helping Conservationists to Save Endangered Species
Given crowdsourcing is based on crowd participation, it is unsurprising that the most successful crowdsourcing projects often involve popular causes or relate to subjects lots of people find fascinating. Based on this understanding, the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) new Instant…
January 13th Independent Music Scene Documentary Turns to Crowdfunding for Support
Award-winning visual artist Muema has been working on a new documentary film about the electronic music scene. Filming has been completed; however, the project still needs funds for post-production work, so Muema is turning to a crowdfunding platform to help finish…
Crowdsourced Historians Boost Holocaust Research
A new partnership between genealogy website Ancestry.com and researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Museum is looking to make searching and recording the past easier for everyone. This unique crowdsourcing project, which was set up in response to the thousands of…
Artspire Allows Artists to Crowdfund Tax Deductible Contributions
Artspire, created by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is a newly launched crowdfunding platform that acts as an extension of NYFA’s fiscal sponsorship program. Artspire is different from other crowdfunding platforms because it allows artists to accept…
Sixty Year-Old Food Company Turns to the Crowd for Fresh Logo
Honeyville Food Products, Inc. established as a family business in 1951, is marking its sixtieth year of successful business with a contest to design a new company logo. The competition is not completely open, but the almost 40,000 qualified designers…
Find a Crowd and Flaunt the Freelancer Logo to Win $25K
Freelancer.com is an online crowdsourcing marketplace that provides creative people with job opportunities. Currently Freelancer.com has 3 million users from 234 countries, regions and territories. Allowing businesses to connect with independent professionals in numerous areas such as software, writing, data…
The Sky’s The Limit With Cloudlogo.com
Anybody interested in acquiring the skills of a talented logo designer will be happy to know that there now exists a unique portal where they can gain access to the cream of the crop. Cloudlogo.com specializes in the crowdsourcing of logo…
Google Maps Improves Accuracy with Help of Canadian Citizens
As part of the navigation system industry’s overall drive to improve map accuracy, Google Maps has enlisted the help of Canadian citizens in the form of crowdsourcing. Much like the way that Wikepedia crowdsources to the public for factual information, Google…
‘Great Little Place’ Proves To Be Great Little Crowdfunded Platform
It was not too long ago that a little conduit called ‘Great Little Place’ was introduced to Facebook. Now, through the power of crowdsourcing, Great Little Place has become a popular location-focused social networking tool. Co-founder Rich Brown describes the…
LogoMyWay Reaches 1.5 Million Designed Logos
The crowdsourcing design community LogoMyWay has just reached the impressive number of 1.5 million produced logos, a number even more impressive if one considers that the platform is only two and a half years old. Built upon the belief that…
Perhaps Crowdsourcing Found Genghis Khan
Crowdsourcing has been used to accomplish astounding tasks that, in the past, seemed nearly impossible. Now, with the help of high-tech imaging tools and the power of the crowd, locating the tomb of Genghis Khan could soon be added to…
DNA 11 Launches Design Platform to Tap into Innovative and Creative minds.
DNA 11, is a company that creates biometric art in the form of rugs and wallpaper. This highly personalized art form is made from customers personal DNA making every design an original. On October 12th, the company launched DNA11 labs…
Senator John Kerry to Guest Curate Concord Museum, Among Others
The Concord Museum is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a special exhibition entitled “Crowdsourcing a Collection”. The exhibition, which seeks to celebrate the collection of the museum and its history by telling it in the first person, features objects which…
DesignCrowd Launches New Zealand Crowdsourcing Site
A crowdsourcing outlet has been launched in New Zealand to enable small businesses to crowdsource design projects. Small businesses in New Zealand can now crowdsource logo and website graphic designs from the best global talents. The crowdsourcing site is the…
The Vaccines Crowdsource Images from Fans to Create New Video
When indie-rock band the Vaccines were developing ideas for their new music video, they decided to ask fans to use Instagram to submit photos of themselves at different festivals with the hashtag #vaccinesvideo. The band then went through the photos…
SocialAttire Offers Fashion Designers A Cut Above The Rest
SocialAttire.com is a new interactive website that not only offers fledgling designers a chance to get their designs seen by the e-community at large, but also to receive the chance to have these designs produced and sold. The social community-based…
Near Earth Object Discovered by Crowdsourced Group of Volunteers
The European Space Agency has had its first success in its latest scheme to map and study the heavens. Its Space Situational Awareness (SSA) program has found its first Near-Earth Object, an asteroid, all thanks to an online community of volunteers….
Olympus Corporation Crowdsources Material for a New Camera’s Online Ad
Olympus, the camera and optical equipment firm, is employing crowdsourcing in its latest marketing campaign. The American branch of the multi-national firm is working in partnership with ad agency Mullen to create a crowd of ambassadors for the new Pen camera…
Occupy Wall Street Turns to Crowdsourcing for Support
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain momentum, two crowdsourcing organizations have joined the initiative and are using their expertise to spread the message to ensure it cannot be ignored. Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site, has provided financial backing…
Crowdsourcing Design Site Launches in Canada
99designs, the largest platform in the world for crowdsourcing the services of graphic designers, launched in Canada on Tuesday. The goal of opening the Canadian branch is to offer small companies an almost unlimited supply of professionally designed logos, web…
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