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…
Readiness tips for crowdsourcing the first-time, and every time after I spent much of the day yesterday with Carrie Maynard at PWC working out the game plan to launch and manage a community which PWC is creating to uncover how Canada can best lead in a digital economy. It’s an initiative that combines some of the things…
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…
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…
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…
It’s hard to explain what I do to my mom. She’s a successful business manager and a can-do entrepreneur coach that I admire immensely. But phrases like open innovation and crowdsourcing are about as familiar to her as gravolox. Thing is, my university education was heavily funded by her. I want her to understand what…
The professors at De Montfort University Leicester, UK, have assembled a taskforce to predict the next Twitter-like big thing in social technology, with the aim resolving related ethical pitfalls before they become a problem. As outlined in their press release, “ETICA researchers will identify emerging technologies and will also decide how they are likely to…