Corporate crowdsourcing news
Daily Crowdsource New Year Giveaway
Daily Crowdsource is pleased to announce the publication of a complete Industry Report on Microtasking for Quarter 3 of 2011. Though the full report is available for purchase, we’re giving away a free preview to everyone who fills out this…
January 23rd [Crowd Leader: David Alan Grier] Understanding the Crowd Effect
The Crowd Effect is often brought up by people who want to use crowdsourcing but can’t because the thought that crowdsourcing is unreliable. The underlying theory is that crowds sometimes get locked into behavior that exhibits a lack of intelligence….
Pizza Hut Challenges Fans to ‘Top’ Their Efforts for Super Bowl Ad
Crowdsourcing-friendly superbrand PepsiCo is again utilizing the creativity of its fanbase by offering prizes for the most creative take on the “$10 Song,” the song that they will be using in their pre-game Superbowl advertisement. Six winners, chosen for their…
Video Preview of Upcoming Crowdsourcing Workshop
David Alan Grier and some of the experts at Daily Crowdsource will be holding a 1-day workshop in the Los Angeles area to help business owners, corporate leaders, and decision makers learn how to integrate crowdsourcing into their existing business…
McDonalds Crowdsources Bite-Sized Videos for Bite-Sized Product
McDonald’s has turned to crowdsourcing for the release of their latest menu item: Chicken McBites. The release of this “cupholder cuisine” item in January 2012 will be accompanied by ten chosen crowdsourced mini films. The community over at Tongal will…
Study Finds Traditional BPO Outsourcing Costs 70 Percent More than Enterprise Crowdsourcing
On Dec 6th, the Everest Group and Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in Dallas, TX and Waltham, Mass announced the results of a study called “Every Crowd has a Silver Lining.” The study revealed a number of factors– the most important of which is that enterprise crowdsourcing…
[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] The Crowdfunding Act: Startup Saviour or Pure Speculation?
Even to someone living 7000km away from Washington D.C, it’s clear that American politicians love a good fight. Democrats and Republicans famously disagree about everything from healthcare to the debt crisis to whether pizza is a vegetable. But, it turns…
Integrate Crowdsourcing Quickly With A 1-Day Workshop Featuring Crowd Leader David Alan Grier
In an effort to further educate the public on crowdsourcing, Daily Crowdsource is hosting a 1-day workshop in the Los Angeles area to help entrepreneurs and corporate managers benefit from integrating crowdsourcing into their current business processes. CrowdCensus: Anaheim, the…
Open Innovation Pioneer NineSigma Announces 20% Growth Increase in 2010
NineSigma has just announced that increasing demand for innovation services has led to a record year of expansion for the company, growing by 20% in 2010. The expansion can be credited, according to the company, to a growing recognition and…
Acabiz, the Academia to Business Knowledge Platform, reaches 1.6k Academic Experts
Acabiz, the Milan-based crowdsourcing company, which connects academic experts and companies looking for niche knowledge & know-how, has now reached 1.6k academic experts. Acabiz’s academic experts really come from every corner of the world; at the moment though, the UK…
The First Crowdsourcing Mobile App is Now Available!
On December 1, 2011, CrowdEngineering announced the first general purpose Crowdsourcing mobile app at the APPNATION III conference in San Francisco. Crowd4self has been released for iPhones and will soon be available on other smartphones. Just imagine the potential of…
[Crowd Leader: Shelley Kuipers] Crowdsourcing and Finding Your Prosumers
There are a couple of different definitions for the term “prosumer.” One of the most frequently used definitions of a prosumer is a consumer who desires a level of service that is typically only demanded by professionals, or someone who…
Microtask Challenges the Limits of Technology and gets Nominated for a Red Herring
Microtask was founded in 2009 by four entrepreneurs and is funded primarily by Sunstone Capital. The Red Herring Global award has nominated Microtask as a finalist in the 2011 competition. The award honors those private companies who push the boundaries…
Sharon Chiarella And Stephanie Leffler Host Free Webinar on the Benefits of Crowdsourcing
Part II of Daily Crowdsource’s webinar series on the Future of Crowdsourcing will be hosted by Sharon Chiarella, VP of Amazon, and Stephanie Leffler, CEO of CrowdSource. The second webinar in this highly requested series will discuss the benefits of microtasking. The webinar is…
Pioneering Crowdfunding Website Acquired by American Public Media
Earlier this week another step towards the eventual integration of crowd-based working into all professional fields was achieved. The crowdfunded journalism site Spot.Us was acquired by American Public Media and plans were made to integrate it into APM’s larger Public…
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…
CrowdFlower Posts Video Highlights of CrowdConf 2011 Online
CrowdFlower.com, the largest provider of crowdsourcing solutions for enterprise was one of several hosts for CrowdConf 2011. They have announced that videos highlighting the conference are now available online. The videos includes keynote speakers, Charlie Cheever founder of Quora, and…
[Crowd Leader: David Bratvold] The Art of Quantifying This Imaginative Field
Several months ago I was asked to conduct research on crowdsourcing in order to help quantify this field. Always loving a new challenge and a chance to innovate, I pursued the task. I heard over and over how people want…
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…
Federal Insurance Office to Crowdsource Views on Modernization of U.S. Insurance Regulations
U.S. Insurance industry players should brace themselves for major changes in Insurance regulations come next year. As the new Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has been tasked to crowdsource views on ways to modernize the U.S. insurance regulatory framework. This announcement…
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