Social media
crowdSPRING on Good Morning America
Ross | February 17th, 2011Last year in our 12 Questions interview series, we profiled Tiffany Reed, a single mom living in Virginia and working as a graphic designer on crowdSPRING. This past week, Tiffany’s design work on crowdSPRING was covered by Good Morning America (America’s most popular morning show) on their national television show and an accompanying article – [...]
David Carson, Spec Work, and Hypocrisy
Ross | January 5th, 2011The About page of Carson Mag, a new bi-monthly magazine, says the following about David Carson: Creative Director David Carson has won over 170 awards for his work in graphic design, had numerous one man exhibitions of his work worldwide, and has been called the “Art Director of the Era” by Creative Review London. USA [...]
Small Business Tip: Get $100 AdWords Credit From Google
Ross | December 30th, 2010Google is giving away $100 million dollars in AdWords credits to small businesses that sign up for an AdWords account BEFORE December 31, 2010. Up to one million small businesses can sign up for this program. If you sign up in the next two days, you’ll have until February 15, 2011 to spend $100 on [...]
Is Social Media Making Us Less Human?
Ross | December 28th, 2010A few days ago, I read an essay in the New York Times by Robin Dunbar. For those not familiar with Dunbar – Dunbar is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford and author of a popular book – “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks.” I’ve long been [...]
Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011
Ross | December 8th, 2010Crowdsourcing is fundamentally changing business, government, non-profits, education, research, and other sectors. Remarkably, we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Here are my picks for the top ten crowdsourcing trends for 2011: 1. Crowdsourcing marketplaces will earn significantly more market share. In 2010, the top two design crowdsourcing marketplaces (crowdSPRING and 99designs) together paid well [...]
Community creative – how we contribute
Mike | October 4th, 2010In the final installment of our exploration into our community we’ll continue to dive into work habits, this time focusing on how many entries Creatives contribute when they participate in a project and how much time they spend working on an entry. Every designer has differing work habits and each of you approaches a project [...]
Community creative – how we work
Mike | September 27th, 2010Early this summer we surveyed over 500 Creatives on crowdSPRING to help us gain a better understanding of our community – who we are, how we work, and what drives us creatively. The results were fascinating and, although we are still sorting through the data, some really interesting information had come into focus. A few [...]
5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)
Mike | September 13th, 2010At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Other tactics leverage partnerships with other businesses to create mutual value and [...]
Community creative – who we are
Mike | September 7th, 2010A month or two ago we completed a rather extensive survey of our Creative community. Over 500(!) of our designers participated and the information we gathered was invaluable in helping us to understand who we are, what we do, and what matters most to us. We’ll be sharing this information with you over the next [...]
Panelpicker time at SXSW! Let the voters decide!
Mike | August 23rd, 2010It’s South by Southwest panel picker time again! August is when folks from around the world have the chance to view panel submissions for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival and things are in full swing. First a shameless pitch – VOTE FOR US! Ross and I have submitted proposals for the 3rd year in a [...]
