Related News

Live Insurance News
Allstate uses crowdsourcing for auto insurance claim predictions
Live Insurance News
Allstate Insurance has been recognized as the Most Connected Company by US News, and decided to use that strength through a crowdsourcing technique in order to help find a solution to improve its forecasting model for bodily injury auto insurance ...

Three Must-Read Articles
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Crowdsourcing your business strategy may sound crazy. But a few pioneering companies are starting to do just that; Mark Zuckerberg has a deep independent streak and that plays a big role in how Facebook is run; In small pockets all over the world, ...

and more »

Crowdsourcing the Student Loan Mess
Huffington Post (blog)
For the record, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Hitler Youth. I point this out because based on the comments to my last few columns (which focused on the idea that a National Service Corps could help solve our student debt crisis) ...

and more »

Forbes
Wary of Fan Demands, Bioware Crowdsourcing Dragon Age 3 Development
Forbes
Bioware as a brand may have fallen from grace in many fans eyes as of late, as between The Old Republic disappointment and Mass Effect 3 ending outrage, they're not exactly the beloved developer they once were to many. But if you can say one thing ...

and more »

Synergy aircraft design will be 10x more efficient at 10% of cost
DVICE
In the case of Synergy, even Kickstarter wasn't willing to give it a shot until fans of the project got the crowdsourcing site to reconsider. Now, Synergy is $50000 away from crossing that dangerous gap between concept and reality.

and more »

Film Melds Gaming, Crowdsourcing, Art, Publicity
Internet Evolution
Leveraging digital media and user-generated content to empower citizens certainly isn'ta new phenomenon. But in Cincinnati the Radius short film project, inspired by the work of the Topos Partnership, has devised ingenious and far-reaching ways to ...

CTV.ca
Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us Closing Price?
Mashable
So what if you applied that brave new world of expert prediction markets, of crowdsourcing the future, to the Facebook IPO? That's what famed investor Chris Sacca wondered aloud on Twitter, and programmer James Proud endeavored to find out.
How Social Forecasting Facebook's IPO FailedDaily Crowdsource

all 891 news articles »

O2 takes to Twitter to launch Priority Moments crowdsourcing campaign
MyCustomer.com
O2 is to take to social media to launch a new crowdsourcing campaign, inviting customers to vote for which brand deals they would most like to receive from O2's Priority Moments service. Priority Moments provides O2's 22 million UK customers with money ...
O2 to crowdsource top brand deals for customersEasier (press release)

all 2 news articles »

How to Build A Crowdsourcing Application
Daily Crowdsource
Crowdsourcing can play the definitive role in a hunt for ideas, & tools like social-media make it easy to develop your own applications for this purpose, according to Simon Willison, software architect and web developer for The Guardian.

24-Hour “Design-A-Thon” Crowdsourcing Event Creates Full Slate of Marketing ...
PR Web (press release)
24-hour Design-A-Thon crowdsourcing event created a new website and marketing tools for Safe Haven Family Shelter -- Nashville's only shelter-to-housing program for homeless families. The volunteer-led event involved nearly three dozen creative ...

Crowdsourcing starts to clear away corporate cobwebs
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | May 16, 2012, 10:00 AM PDT Since it entered the popular imagination, crowdsourcing has been seen as an approach for bringing in ideas from the world outside corporate walls. Now, crowdsourcing is becoming a mainstream business ...

Sammamish-Issaquah Families: Crowdsourcing Favorite Summer Camps
Patch.com
Help us identify the best, the cheapest, or just overall great summer camps (hopefully that still have some space). By Jeanne Gustafson I'm a procrastinator. Worse yet, I'm a procrastinator with a kid, and co-parenting means it's often pretty late in ...

Crowdsourcing Company Offers Contest Jobs for Freelancers Interested in ...
Houston Chronicle
Witmart.com, an international crowdsourcing website, offers employers the option to post contest jobs to attract thousands of freelancers looking for logo design opportunities. After raging success in China, US based freelance company Witmart.com now ...

and more »

NHS Patient Feedback Challenge uses online crowdsourcing to collect ideas and ...
dh.gov.uk
This 'crowdsourcing' of ideas is a fundamental part of the bidding process, giving organisations the chance to share their ideas, convince others of their value, get feedback to improve them and build links that will help ideas spread further.

and more »

Universe Today
Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids
Universe Today
That's where crowdsourcing comes in, to get more eyes on the skies. ESA is turning to schools and amateur astronomers to help as part of Europe's contribution to the global asteroid hunt. This month, the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project will become the ...

and more »

It's research, Jim, but not as we know it - Crowdsourcing promised radical ...
Nanowerk LLC
With one of the largest research databases in the world, Mendeley is not only helping to liberate knowledge - now it is using crowdsourcing to help us understand the impact of it. Using metadata from the growing database, and collaborative filtering ...

Allstate Taps the Crowd to Predict Insurance Claims
U.S. News & World Report
So when Allstate Insurance—recognized by US News as a Most Connected Company—wanted to improve the model it uses to forecast bodily injury claims based on the type of vehicles involved in accidents, it looked to crowdsourcing for a solution.

and more »

Crowdsourcing Company Offers Contest Jobs for Freelancers Interested in ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Witmart.com, an international crowdsourcing website, offers employers the option to post contest jobs to attract thousands of freelancers looking for logo design opportunities. Sugar Land, Texas (PRWEB) May 15, 2012 After raging success in China, ...

and more »

Why Innovation Teams Fail – or Succeed
Innovation Excellence (blog)
When it comes to succeeding in business, ideas are great but you still have to get stuff done. When it comes to innovation, it may be fun to talk about whether someone is innovative or not, or look at what innovation face they wear, or even whether ...

Crowdsourcing for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Triple Pundit
A number of large companies including Pepsi, Fiat, Lego, McDonald's and Starbucks discovered crowdsourcing as a means of obtaining product ideas, opinions and user behavior directly from the consumer long ago. These companies use their prominence and ...