Posts Tagged ‘crowdsourcing’
Use of Crowdsourcing in Medical Field Allows for More Efficient Health Care
As political pundits weave their way through state after state, a hot button issue will continue to find an effective way to manage the country’s increasingly discombobulated (and expensive) health care system. One solution? Crowdsourcing. In a recent article, author…
January 21st 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…
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…
[Crowd Leader: David Alan Grier] The Point of Innovation
What do we mean when we say that we are crowdsourcing? It is useful to take a moment to consider the concept so that we can best understand where the point of innovation lies.
Mercado: A Specially Designed Produce Bag Created through Quirky’s Crowd
Peter A. Wachtel, a toy designer and inventor, developed his better designed farmer’s market bag, called Mercado, on Quirky.com, a crowdsourcing website that brings the best ideas to market. ”It’s a one of a kind bag,” said Mr. Wachtel, who…
Help Wanted: Whales Need Translators
This week for Microvolunteering Wednesday you can help Scientific American and Zooniverse with their newly launched crowdsourcing project. They are looking for people to decode new phrases, dialects and meaning of killer and pilot whale songs. A staggering 15,000 whale…
RICS Considers Crowdsourcing for Land Tenure Issues
RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is considering crowdsourcing to provide slum dwellers with some degree of land tenure. Currently, of the world’s 6 billion land parcels, only 1.5 billion have registered land rights. This means that billions of…
Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria
A crowdsourcing initiative to find a cure for drug-resistant malaria has been unveiled by Scripps Research Institute and IBM. The project, to be partly funded by money won from the Jeopardy! game show by IBM’s Watson computing system, has invited…
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…
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…
Crypteks Inc. Unveils New Ultra-Secure USB Device On Kickstarter
Crypteks Inc. has unveiled a new ultra-secure USB device that is sure to grab headlines this festive season. The device was launched through the “All-or-Nothing” crowdsourcing funding platform Kickstarter.com. The USB device is predicted to gain instant market fame similar…
Lookers Give Buyers a Second Set of Eyes
WeGoLook.com offers a crowdsourcing service that acts as the owner’s “set of eyes”. If you are unable to look at something yourself WeGoLook.com can send someone on your behalf to inspect the item in a very cost effective manner. They…
Have Your Lawn Cut by Crowdsourced Lawn Professionals
Thanks to a new site, LawnMowingOnline.com, mowing your lawn has become as easy as scheduling an appointment online. This service, offered in Houston, St. Louis, and Miami, offers next day lawn mowing services for as little as $19 for a…
Lufthansa Turns to the Crowd to Co-Create Green Solutions for Air Cargo
Lufthansa has launched the ‘Air Cargo Innovation Challenge’ to offer participants the opportunity to help them co-create ideas on a variety of initiatives that they are currently undertaking. This open innovation challenge is a pioneering move in the airfreight industry….
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…
Crowdsourced Video Shows “Everybody Can Save a Life”
Zooppa the leading source of user-generated advertising and MatchingDonors.com the world’s largest living organ donor registry announced that Rob Mical or Orlando, FL had won the $5000 award in their crowdsourced video contest “Everybody Can Save a Life!” The competition…
DesignCrowd Receives $3M Investment for a Fairer, Higher Quality Crowdsourcing Model
DesignCrowd, an Australian crowdsourcing website, recently received $3M in venture capital from Starfish Ventures. The purpose of the investment is to bring a new, fairer, and higher-quality form of crowdsourcing to the US market. DesignCrowd fixes the problems with traditional design…
Young People Play a Pivotal Role in Rewriting the UNAIDS Strategy
On October 31st the Joint United Nations Program, UNAIDS, launched its first crowdsourcing campaign designed to include young people in finding solutions to HIV/AIDS. The purpose of UNAIDS is to make HIV prevention and treatment available worldwide. They plan to…
MegaPath Announces Top Six Winners of Crowdsourcing Contest With Zooppa
The Top Six winners of MegaPath Inc.’s Talk Tech Video crowdsourcing challenge have been announced. The winners will share a prize of more than $30,000 for their unique, winning videos. The video crowdsourcing contest was held in collaboration with Zooppa,…
International Video Content Crowdsourcing Platform Launches In English
Userfarm, the international video crowdsourcing platform, has launched in English. Userfarm is currently the first of its kind globally: the site provides brands, agencies and broadcasters a platform to crowdsource video content from a pool of video makers. Userfarm currently…
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