Posts Tagged ‘“collaborative platform”’
GSA Expands InnoCentive’s Crowdsourcing Reach

InnoCentive, the solutions provider that has not only a multi-channel open innovation platform, but one that is also able to provide professional challenge development services, has been appointed to General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 541 4G, Challenges and Competition Services. With…
Joint Venture Offers Crowdsourcing Opportunities for Manufacturing Businesses

On October 21 Chaordix, one of the leaders in crowd intelligence solutions, and Genius Crowds, a social ideation community that uses crowdsourcing to encourage the development of new products, declared a new joint venture to mutually provide manufacturing enterprises with…
Ortsbo Pushes the Envelope with Instant Translation

Ortsbo is an instant translation tool for desktop computers and IM, and it’s now available for the iPhone. You can use it with platforms such as MSN and Facebook for real time translation as you speak or type. CEO David…
DesignInArk Crowdsources 2020 Olympic Logo Design

DesignInArk.com is offering artists and designers a chance to play a major part in the 2020 Olympics: they have just announced a design contest to define a logo concept for the Games. The contest, which will run until midnight October…
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…
PopSci & Innocentive Plan New Open Innovation Pavilion

One of the largest science and technology publications, PopSci, and a leader in Crowdsource Driven Innovation, InnoCentive, have announced their recent partnership to develop a new online challenge platform. The platform, or pavilion, uses crowdsourcing as a means to facilitate…
Open Innovation Tackles India’s Sanitation Solutions

Open innovation service providers Ideaken have posted details of a case study that shows how open innovation can help provide vital services in deprived areas. They have worked with an Indo-Dutch consortium to search for an innovative design to help…
Google Crowdsources Content Quality Control

Search engine giant Google has often expressed disapproval at sites and users geared towards bombarding the web with spam content, and have applied great effort to clean up the web of junk sites. In their latest efforts, Google has once…
Crowdfunding Brings Robocop to Detroit

What started out as a bit of fun on Twitter has turned into reality. Now it seems thanks to the effort of an artist from Detroit, Michigan harnessing the power of the crowd to raise the money needed, a statue…
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…
Squadhelp: A Crowdsourcing Giant

Squadhelp, a leading company in the crowdsourcing industry, recently boasted that numerous businesses have utilized crowdsourcing to attain significantly higher business returns during the previous quarter. Companies are taking advantage of crowdsourcing contests enabling them to be more interactive and…
Crowdsourcing Clears Away the Snow

From the Kenyan elections to the London Tube Strikes, the Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform has played an integral role in relaying vital information during troubled times. Following the artic-like blizzard that has caused chaos in New York, Snowmageddon The Clean Up was launched, using the…
New crowdsourcing initiative rides into town

South African based digital marketing specialists AD: Dynamo, have come up with a new method of crowdsourcing that looks set to change people’s perceptions of collaboration and web design. The Digital Cowboys initiative has already given birth to the social…
Crowdsourcing for The Truth

Whenever we listen to or read the news it’s hard sometimes to decipher whether or not the information being relayed is credible or simply slanted towards a particular bias. Viewing reports from other news channels, newspapers, or websites may give…
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…
Crowdsourcing in the architecture world

Using Wikipedia or other architecture sites to collect enough information about a building of interest, is quite often time consuming. It really takes time and the accuracy of the facts is unknown. With the emergence of OpenBuildings, now architecture geeks can…
Lingotek Releases New Version of its Collaborative Translation Platform

Lingotek, a translations solutions provider, released their new and improved Collaborative Translation Platform (CTP version 5.0) at the end of July. CTP allows clients to manage translations with less fuss and tedium, with the additional bonus of oversight by a…
Crowdsourcing Good Will Through Africa Rural Connect

National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) project Africa Rural Connect (ARC) is crowdsourcing ideas for new and relevant outreach projects within the country. The site itself is a collaborative tool that engages humanitarians from all over the world, allowing them to…

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