Archive for the ‘Crowdsourcing’ Category

The second edition of this conference has just been announced. For those of you with a budget - it's around $3,000 per delegate - and feeling they're not getting enough from their innovation cycles, it appears a worthy trip!

The conference aims to help business identify open-innovation models that streamline strategic decision making and analyse cultures that foster open-innovation. It also sets out to help you connect with suppliers and technology that can help you fuel innovation, though why you'd need to look further than this website is beyond me!

There will be some fairly prestigious speakers at the event, from the likes of P&G, General Electric, Cadbury Schweppes and IBM.

You can find out more about how to get to the event in Las Vegas on 26th and 27th February 2008 by clicking here. If you're UK-based and don't have the time or budget, you can arrange for DUB to present the future of Open Innovation by calling us at +44 (0) 20 89642657

The man behind the term 'crowdsourcing', Jeff Howe, and publisher Random House have, of course, teamed up with Creative Review to launch a competition to design the cover of the upcoming UK edition of Crowdsourcing. A website called Coversourcing has been set up to allow participants to post their entries. The all important reward for winning is a signed first edition, framed artwork and £500 cash. What we like about this is the active encouragement to collaborate with other creatives, be they illustrators, photographers etc., in creating an entry, and how entrants can use Flickr to upload their work, making it beautifully simple.

The website Swarm of Angels, which launched earlier this year, is using the enthusiasm of the crowds to finance a film. (more...)

Human Brain Cloud is a neat little idea. (more...)

I was reading trendwatching.com today. It's written by a group of people professionally tuned into spotting the latest and greatest trends. One of their latest ones is a new term - Crowd Clout. (more...)

Simple idea - get 10,000 people to draw a picture of a sheep (facing to the left). Pay out $0.02 for each picture. Bring all these pictures together. Show the world! (more...)

Tesla, is a Silicon Valley-based car company. They're currently developing a high performance electric-powered car. To achieve this, they have adopted many of the progressive techniques developed by their digitally obsessed neighbors. (more...)

Crowdsourcing and co-collaboration initiatives are gaining traction everyday. All around the world, individuals, groups and communities are dreaming up and executing interesting, original and innovative ideas. (more...)

I've just finished reading The Age of Conversation. The book's part crowdsourcing - the Editors set a topic and put it out to the writing community. And part co-creation - the Editors worked with these writers to polish the product. (more...)

Last week, modern day adventurer Steve Fossett went missing in the Nevada desert. On hearing the news Virgin boss, close friend and fellow thrill-seeker Richard Branson leapt into action, using Google Earth to help find him.
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