Posts Tagged ‘crowdsourcing’
Crowdsourcing, the Gulf Oil Spill and the Arrogance of BP
Ross | June 25th, 2010BP has spent $2.35 billion dollars to date to clean-up, contain and pay claims for the largest oil spill in U.S. history. They’ve established a $20 billion dollar reserve to deal with ongoing obligations and liabilities from the oil spill. Despite BP’s efforts to stop the oil from continuing to pollute the environment, 35,000 to [...]
12 Questions: Meet Tiffanie Davis (USA)
Audree | June 1st, 2010In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
12 Questions: Meet Constance Semler (Canada)
Audree | May 25th, 2010In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
12 Questions: Meet Ann Lowe (Canada)
Audree | May 11th, 2010In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
12 Questions: Meet Michael Irby (USA)
Audree | May 4th, 2010In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
Google Crowdsourcing Investments
Ross | May 4th, 2010Most companies leverage crowdsourcing by relying on external communities. For example, small businesses and startups looking for custom logo design leverage crowdSPRING’s community of 60,000 designers and writers. Companies looking for help with on-demand software testing can leverage the community at uTest. People looking for help with simple tasks can leverage Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Smart [...]
Fiat Crowdsourcing Car Design
Ross | May 2nd, 2010You might have heard of Local Motors – a company leveraging crowdsourcing to design cars. Local Motors licenses a chassis and then looks internally to its own community to innovate and refine the design of the car (other than the chasis). Fiat Brazil has recently announced a project to crowdsource the entire car – including [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: MusikPitch
Laura | April 30th, 2010It’s super exciting to see crowdsourcing spreading to all these new industries! So, naturally, when we came across a homepage redesign project (which, by the way, was awarded to cloud168 , congratulations!) we had to get in touch with them and find out what their site’s going to be all about! I got in contact [...]
