Posts Tagged ‘business’
The Guardian to Experiment with Crowdsourcing News
The Guardian, a national British newspaper, will be one of the first national papers to implement a major editorial change. On Monday morning the newspaper plans to crowdsource aspects of its editorial policy, which could be the starting point of change…
October 14th Congressional Hearing on Crowdsourcing
In June of this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission halted two marketing execs as they tried to raise $300 million in online pledges to purchase Pabst Brewing Co. Prompted by this high-profile case, Congress scheduled a hearing on September…
Trenchmark Seeks to Improve Accessibility of Business Concepts
Robert Jan Droogleever Fortuyn, owner of the new Netherlands-based company Trenchmark, is hoping to put social media business giant, LinkedIn, to the test as he seeks to tap into a new crowdsourcing experience through multiple business ideas and relationships. Droogleever…
Re-Branding with Crowdsourcing
In a time of economical upheaval, it is important for a business to completely identify with potential customers. In an increasingly competitive global market, re-branding may be the key for any company to gain an advantage over the competition and…
Twelve Startups in Twelve Months Through Crowdsourcing
Venture Capitalists all tend to have one thing in common: a keen interest in seeing new businesses grow and develop. VenCorps™; however, has taken a new, innovative, crowdsourced approached to providing funding to new businesses through their “Start-a-Startup™” program. VenCorps™,…
Crowdsourced reports on CSR initiatives and organization culture
CSRHUB, a 3p sponsor, aims at rating the corporate social responsibility initiatives of big names in business houses, making use of crowdsources’ input that rate the companies. People familiar with Trip Advisor and product reviews on Amazon can vouch for…
Exclusive Daily Crowdsource Offer – UK Open Innovation Event
Innovation agencies 100%Open and Wecreate have partnered to organise a two day event called The Open Innovation Accelerator to be held on March 3rd 2011 in Islington, UK. The programme, geared to enhancing collaborative and open innovation strategies, is designed to…
IamaSource – The One Stop Shop for Brand Imaging
A recent entrant in the crowdsourcing world, IamaSource.com offers services that encompass a complete branding solution for new startup ventures. IamaSource.com, launched a few months ago, is a complete graphic solutions site that offers you a choice of services from…
Ireland marries investors and entrepreneurs through new business crowdfunding site
Ireland’s first crowdfunding site, Seedups, launched its beta format last week. Seedups will use crowdsourced applications to match business ideas and start-up companies with high net-worth investors. The objective is to help entrepreneurs more efficiently locate and secure funding for…
Can someone create a profitable greenhouse gas emissions company
The Toronto Atmospheric Fund is sponsoring an online crowdsourcing challenge for the best business ideas to make a greenhouse gas emission reductions business profitable. The Climate Spark Climate Solutions Challenge is a new venture capital contest through which ClimateSpark, a community-powered…
Battle Over Image Royalties Presents Crowdsourcing Challenge
There have been many examples of how crowdsourcing has benefited a plethora of businesses and organisations to convey a message, gather and share information, as well as sell products and services. However the battle between image supplier iStockphoto and its contributors…
Riding on the Trend of Business Crowdsourcing
Wired Magazine’s contributing editor Jeff Howe may have coined the term in 2006, but crowdsourcing has been in existence long before that. As early as 2000, companies like iStockphoto have been tapping into the skills and expertise of individual professionals…
The New Crowdsourced Peperami Ad – Bit of An Animal
Food manufacturing giant Unilever unveiled the new television commercial for the meat snack, Peperami, yesterday. The campaign behind this latest commercial was a shift for Unilever since they turned to crowdsourcing as opposed to the traditional model of brand marketing….
Trada raises $5.75 million for its crowdsourced SEM platform
Trada, a crowdsourced SEM (search engine marketing) platform led by Google Ventures and early investor Foundry Group, recently raised $5.75 million. With this platform, freelance search marketers and advertisers find one another to work on advertising campaigns. Trada announced few weeks…
Threadless Uses Crowdsourced Design Ideas for T-Shirt Success
The Threadless t-shirt company started out as a high school project over ten years ago by owner Jake Nickell. He never intended it to make money, or to evolve into a highly-successful online business, but it did. Originally, all Nickell…
Find a job by crowdsourcing: new trend, new chances
Social networking sites nowadays are becoming excellent places for people to find their new jobs. For example, on Twitter, many users are taking advantages of its open characteristic to use the network for job hunting purposes. Everyday, millions of announcements…
Have an Idea that Needs Nurturing? Call the Ideamama
No one understands the notion that growing a business from a simple idea needs collaboration, more so than Olga Kostrova, CEO and Founder of the Ideamama Group. Based in Silicon Valley Califonia, the company prides itself on its innovative use of…
The Ten Commandments of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is not a taboo subject anymore, especially when speaking about business affairs. Nokia uses crowdsourcing. So does General Electric, Air New Zealand, and the United States Postal Service. However things can go very wrong very fast if the rules of crowdsourcing…
Do you know how to market your idea?
What are you supposed to do when you get a genius idea for a new product? Entrepreneurs come up with a solution: crowdsourcing. Ben Kaufman, founder of Quirky – a social product development company, said that when he started two…
USPS turns to Prova to crowdsource their Priority Mail Box Design
The United States Postal Service in Hawaii has selected the online community of designers at Prova to crowdsource the design of a “Season’s Greetings from Hawaii” logo to be printed on the Hawaii Priority Mail Large Flat Rate Boxes. A…
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