The NY Times Op-Chart for the past 10 years has singled out crowd-source as the verb of 2009, following Google as the verb of 2005 and download in 2002. Take a look – bottom right corner… Six years ago crowdsourcing was being sited as a trend, so the breakthrough to verb status marks a tipping…
To all those following and supporting us at Chaordix – thank you for a great year! In just a short period of time we’ve emerged as the market leader in crowdsourcing thought leadership, proven methodologies and enabling technology! The conversations and projects we’ve had an opportunity to work on have been rewarding and inspiring to…
Innovation comes from listening AND interpreting what you hear. Traditionally, companies decide internally what to produce and offer it to customers. But there’s a market shift underway led by Dell, Converse, Amazon and others using crowdsourcing to ask customers what they want to buy before they build it. WIND Mobile launched with an ad campaign…
I attended the Gov2.0 online conference this morning and listened to 5 success stories on open government. I was really impressed with the quality of speakers and feel pretty inspired by all of the initiatives around web2.0, social media and the government. Jeff Nigbur, summarized this shift in thinking well during his presentation of the…
You can’t crowdsource anything without a crowd, but what groups of people might you think about for your crowdsourcing initiatives? What qualifies as a crowd and how many people do you need to get the results you are after? Crowds worth considering… Your employees/stakeholders – crowdsourcing all aspects of your your business – benefit as…
Working at Chaordix has provided me with plenty of opportunity to do cool things. One of those things is organizing TEDxYYC (an independently organized TEDx event). As part of the event, the volunteer team has promised to highlight a different TEDtalk every day. I made everyone in the office watch this one yesterday and we…
So many high profile crowdsourcing initiatives happen in North America, you might imagine that the movement is a western thing, or a mostly American thing. Not so. Just like crowdsourcing can’t be pigeon-holed into a single purpose like finding research or tech solutions, or task production, or only uncovering product or service ideas – it’s…
The community manager in me hates it when people talk about launching a crowdsourcing community as though it is something that’s disposable. I much prefer when people are worried about keeping their community engaged and rewarded. It shows that you are willing to invest in the people that are investing their time in your product…
Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of European organizations on crowdsourcing projects, and one thing in particular has struck me: Europeans seem to value the collaborative side of crowdsourcing more than the prospects of having the crowd pick a “winner”. Given the geography, history and cultures in…
Crowdsourcing isn’t an all or nothing undertaking Opening up your organzation to let the crowd in likely isn’t as difficult as you imagine. Instead of thinking about crowdsourcing as an all-or-nothing proposition, consider the different stages of innovation where crowd input could help you better perform: the crowd submits ideas – put a call out…