“Crowd-sourcing lets voters vet cities’ fiscal plans – The Globe and Mail investigates crowd-sourcing as method for cities facing tough choices and major financial constraints, to allow voters to participate in the budget process and other decisions so that any controversial outcomes come with public vetting.” Read more: Crowd-sourcing lets voters vet cities’ fiscal plan…
Consumers are speeding product development & reducing market failures Heading into Christmas buying blitz 2010, it’s fun to try to predict what will be the bestsellers. Remember last year it was Wii everything? What will it be this year? Sing-a-Ma-Jigs? It’s interesting to hear in January what’s sold most, but it’s game-changing for retailers to…
Boy, it seems that everything is coming up crowdsourcing these days, doesn’t it? Talk about hype! All of a sudden marketing contests like Dunkin’ Donuts’ design our next donut campaign isn’t just a contest anymore, it’s crowdsourcing. (ok, maybe it is, kinda). It seems like anything that involves more than a couple of people…
Wow, it was pretty cool – we got to spend the day in a room filled with our crowdsourcing friends! @liman from SAP joined @shelleykuipers for the day at CrowdConf (Chaordix had a panel slot and sponsored the event) The planned keynote was Jeff Howe @crowdsourcing but he unfortunately missed the event – Lukas Biewald…
Editors note: Here at Chaordix we are very excited to be working with 100%Open, Good Business and Orange on the Mobile Volunteering project now underway. Our partners 100%Open posted this nice overview on their site a bit ago and with their permission, are guest posting it here. Originally posted at 100% Open. We are excited…
Is it true? Do I understand it? Is it data I can apply to perform better, right now? Turns out crowdsourcing has a lot in common with information governance. This week at a beautiful desert oasis in New Mexico, Chaordix participated on IBM’s Data Governance Council Forum to work on strengthening and modernizing the Maturity…
In a post two weeks ago, we talked about how crowdsourcing for market research can avoid some of the inherent biases that can come with traditional research techniques. There is another reason for why crowdsourcing is being increasingly applied for market research: it can result in better data. A common question we hear is “how…
Originally posted at rediff.com on August 16th, 2010. Social media is no more a buzzword today. Given the rate at which it is growing and the impact it is making in our everyday lives, we will soon see the answer to this question: ‘Why should I care about social media?’ Over the last three years,…
This past week Chaordix was represented at the WorldBlu 2010 Awards in Vegas. The event was to honour those who made the 2010 list (we did ) and to hear first hand stories amongst the honourees about what makes their company democratic. A complete list of the companies that made the 2010 WorldBlu list is…
I attended The Art of Marketing yesterday and heard from some great speakers. I wanted to share a couple of notes from the event, so thought a mini-series on the blog this week highlighting some of the speakers and few lessons from them would be a good idea. First up, Mitch Joel, author of Six…