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A quick guide to crowd sourcing

Poptent developed a “crowd” of 38K video creators, and now uses them to create low-cost, high-impact TV and online videos for clients including Anheuser-Busch, P&G, Nestle and American Express. Poptent’s Neil Perry shares his top three tips.

The Bessies - Crowd Sourcing

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U. partners with crowdsourcing site
By Austin Cole The University is soliciting ideas for innovative ways to develop technology invented by Brown researchers through a partnership with Allied Mindstorm, a crowd-sourcing website that allows public “thinkers” to brainstorm ideas in …
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Audiosocket Partners With MOFILM to Provide Music for the World's Leading
SEATTLE, WA, Apr 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Audiosocket, a collective of forward thinkers, tech junkies and music snobs, today announced a partnership with MOFILM, the world's leading crowdsourcing agency. MOFILM has a global community of …
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Crowd Sourcing & Digital Frontiers

As part of the Northern Lights Film Festival, NorthernNet presented a day of presentations, panels, debates, 1-1s and case studies about the latest opportunities for filmmakers and venues in today’s digital moving image business. Crowd Sourcing & Digital Frontiers took place at the Tyneside Cinema on Friday 26 March and included speakers Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel), John Griffin (Producer — Skins), Tim Wright (XPT), Samm Haillay (Third Films), Lisa Marie Russo (exec producer) Chris Atkins (Director), Marc Price (Director) and Nick Ware (Proactive chair).
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(Day 101 BONUS!) They Might Be Giants Crowd Sourcing Experiment

They Might Be Giants requested that this part of their show be filmed and put onto YouTube (or Vimeo, “a much better video site” -Flansburgh). This video was shot on March 5th, 2010 at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia. Jonathan Coulton opened the show. To see the trip surrounding this concert (and other concert footage) check out Day 101 proper: www.youtube.com

David Fisher Lecture: Intro To Crowd Funding

Today David Fisher presented a lecture on crowd funding at Maui County Business Resource Center inside Maui Mall, Kahului, Hawaii. We had about a dozen participants including two video crews recording the event. The following nine minute video is available in numerous quality settings from mobile phone quality up to 1080P full HD on the video sharing website vimeo.com Check out David Fisher’s site mauiventure.net
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Short Film -

devilsangelsanddating.ning.com www.indiegogo.com Our Story: We’re developing a short computer generated film called ‘Devils, Angels and Dating’ purely for the love of animated filmmaking. This film is being made with the internet in mind, fully aware of modern interests and trends. Synopsis: While Devil, Death and Cupid set about their daily tasks of masterminding our love lives here on Earth, they find themselves in the midst of an afterlife love triangle involving high tech visions of the tools we might be using to date on the internet many years from now. This is a love triangle with cosmic repercussions! We’re a large team of online animation professionals creating this film in our free time. At the time of writing we have 380 members signed up. You can see everything we’re doing as we do it from the over 2700 online videos and images to our direct discussions. We have video critiques, tutorials, artwork, work in progress animation, tech videos and all kinds of goodies to look at. What’s more is we’ve been building this archive of knowledge for anyone to view… for free (or at our own expense, at any rate). This is fine to a point as we love what we do and no-one expects to get rich doing this. But if there were some funds available it would make many things possible beyond the current scope of the project and it would ensure a solid film that would reward everyone that’s poured their heart and souls into over the last few years, not to mention the wider world who
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Crowd sourcing environmental governance, March 2011 Goldsmiths U. Design & Environment

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“Crowd-sourcing Environmental Governance” workshop by Cesar Harada & Shannon Dosemagen.
2011 March 8 & 10, Design & Environment, Goldsmiths University of London.

Hello! Here is Cesar Harada and Shannon Dosemagen writing from the Gulf of Mexico, USA. We are thrilled to announce the upcoming hands-on workshop we’ll be having together in London : Come! And let’s ignite the discussion here.

ABSTRACT : Problem, Questions, Objectives
Each of us is not only witnessing, but actively participating in the degradation of our environment, our only life support system. The symptoms range from climate change, man made catastrophes, resource wars, resulting environmental refugees, etc. We are lacking a powerful environmental authority, a court of justice, and coordination in general. We have amazing earth science but poor individual education, international collateral treaties but no capacity to reinforce them. Governments and institutions are powerless to mitigate such complex and border-less issues. Can the solution emerge from the civil society? Can the people re-invent environmental governance with new technologies, collaborative medias, crowd sourcing, and mobile technologies? Do we need a central authority or can we generate decentralized, local, humble, bottom-up solutions? Can we design alternative services, products, technologies, infrastructures and behaviors as the new form of environmentalism. How can we go beyond activism and sustain long term positive change – what is your strategy?

WORKSHOP
Social Geometry, Architecture of play, Natural or Man-made Catastrophe, Humanitarian response to crisis, Crowd sourcing Environmental Governance. During 2 days, 10 students will be supervised by Cesar Harada (France – Japan) and Shannon Dosemagen (USA) at the Design & Environment department at the Goldsmith University, London. During the first half, they will experiment with social networks and how they can generate an operational organization and architecture. The students will be introduced to existing forms of environmental governance and cutting edge design and activism. During the second half, groups of students will elaborate their own designs in the area of their interest. Workshop leaders will help them model-building ideas that are creative, local, replicable and scalable. The workshop is aimed at starting a discussion, to encourage the students to take action in the “real world” and have short-term local experiments to learn from.

THE PEOPLE : Students, Workshop leaders
The workshop for the Design & Environment students from Goldsmiths University will require the students to venture their thinking into diverse fields : architecture, law, economy, politics, environmental engineering, anthropology, computer science, social media etc. The groups projects are expected to be diverse and exploratory. Cesar Harada has a background in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, won the Ars Electronica Golden Nica [NEXT IDEA] with the Open_Sailing project, worked as project leader and researcher at MIT, and is coordinating the making of the WEA (World Environment Action) website started in *iHub_ Nairobi, Kenya. Cesar is currently coordinating the development of Protei : an oil cleaning open hardware robot.

Shannon Dosemagen has a background in Anthropology from the University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shannon is the coordinator of the Oil Spill Map at LA Bucket Brigade, mapping the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using Ushahidi, a software allowing people to report by SMS, twitter, mail, on the acclaimed website oilspill.labucketbrigade.org. Shannon has also been piloting the aerial mapping of the Oil Spill by communities as part of the Public Laboratory group. Shannon has extensive community, field and teaching experience, interested in social implications of environmental events, and environmental refugees in particular.

DAY 1 : March 8th
Morning : Oil Spill mapping, World Environmental Action. Environmental governance and cutting edge activism. Groups brainstorming.
Afternoon : Social networks and Architecture of Play (choreography, construction)

DAY 2 : March 10th
Morning : Design. Theory in practice.
Afternoon : Thinking by doing.
Evening : Presentation of project ideas.

Discussion
We would like to start asking questions to open up the discussion, please comment below and ask more questions – we’ll answer in line 🙂
1>> When you think about environmentalism, what comes first to your mind? Is it the little actions like recycling / the activist social group / the green ‘leaders’ / green designs and brands / the materials we use / scientific research / global warming / your own body / your children / the philosophical current / something else? Which action has the strongest and longest lasting impact? Can you make a personal numbered list below here, in the comments?

2>> When you think about environmental politics, what comes first to your mind? How do you feel about the current relation between the environment and politics today? How does it affect the majority of peoples life?

3>> As a designer what do you think is your role about environmental issues?

Feel free to contact us before and after the workshop : contact {at} cesarharada {dot} com _ shannon {at} publiclaboratory {dot} org. Looking forward to meet you all! Cesar and Shannon.

CrowdSourcing James Madison's Notes of the Debates on the Constitution
By Ed Whelan Here's an ambitious and interesting new project that the Brookings Institution's Benjamin Wittes has helped to launch in partnership with the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier: “crowd-sourcing” Madison's Notes of …
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Can Crowdsourcing Really Work for Unilever?
Or in other words, can crowdsourcing really work for Unilever? The starting point of the new open innovation platform is the Sustainable Living Plan. Announced in 2010, it includes some bold targets, from doubling Unilever's sales by 2020 while halving …
Read more on Triple Pundit

Latest Crowd Sourcing News

Crowd sourcing environmental governance, March 2011 Goldsmiths U. Design & Environment

Image by cesarharada.com
www.designandenvironment.co.uk/2011/02/crowd-sourcing-env…

Close
“Crowd-sourcing Environmental Governance” workshop by Cesar Harada & Shannon Dosemagen.
2011 March 8 & 10, Design & Environment, Goldsmiths University of London.

Hello! Here is Cesar Harada and Shannon Dosemagen writing from the Gulf of Mexico, USA. We are thrilled to announce the upcoming hands-on workshop we’ll be having together in London : Come! And let’s ignite the discussion here.

ABSTRACT : Problem, Questions, Objectives
Each of us is not only witnessing, but actively participating in the degradation of our environment, our only life support system. The symptoms range from climate change, man made catastrophes, resource wars, resulting environmental refugees, etc. We are lacking a powerful environmental authority, a court of justice, and coordination in general. We have amazing earth science but poor individual education, international collateral treaties but no capacity to reinforce them. Governments and institutions are powerless to mitigate such complex and border-less issues. Can the solution emerge from the civil society? Can the people re-invent environmental governance with new technologies, collaborative medias, crowd sourcing, and mobile technologies? Do we need a central authority or can we generate decentralized, local, humble, bottom-up solutions? Can we design alternative services, products, technologies, infrastructures and behaviors as the new form of environmentalism. How can we go beyond activism and sustain long term positive change – what is your strategy?

WORKSHOP
Social Geometry, Architecture of play, Natural or Man-made Catastrophe, Humanitarian response to crisis, Crowd sourcing Environmental Governance. During 2 days, 10 students will be supervised by Cesar Harada (France – Japan) and Shannon Dosemagen (USA) at the Design & Environment department at the Goldsmith University, London. During the first half, they will experiment with social networks and how they can generate an operational organization and architecture. The students will be introduced to existing forms of environmental governance and cutting edge design and activism. During the second half, groups of students will elaborate their own designs in the area of their interest. Workshop leaders will help them model-building ideas that are creative, local, replicable and scalable. The workshop is aimed at starting a discussion, to encourage the students to take action in the “real world” and have short-term local experiments to learn from.

THE PEOPLE : Students, Workshop leaders
The workshop for the Design & Environment students from Goldsmiths University will require the students to venture their thinking into diverse fields : architecture, law, economy, politics, environmental engineering, anthropology, computer science, social media etc. The groups projects are expected to be diverse and exploratory. Cesar Harada has a background in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, won the Ars Electronica Golden Nica [NEXT IDEA] with the Open_Sailing project, worked as project leader and researcher at MIT, and is coordinating the making of the WEA (World Environment Action) website started in *iHub_ Nairobi, Kenya. Cesar is currently coordinating the development of Protei : an oil cleaning open hardware robot.

Shannon Dosemagen has a background in Anthropology from the University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shannon is the coordinator of the Oil Spill Map at LA Bucket Brigade, mapping the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using Ushahidi, a software allowing people to report by SMS, twitter, mail, on the acclaimed website oilspill.labucketbrigade.org. Shannon has also been piloting the aerial mapping of the Oil Spill by communities as part of the Public Laboratory group. Shannon has extensive community, field and teaching experience, interested in social implications of environmental events, and environmental refugees in particular.

DAY 1 : March 8th
Morning : Oil Spill mapping, World Environmental Action. Environmental governance and cutting edge activism. Groups brainstorming.
Afternoon : Social networks and Architecture of Play (choreography, construction)

DAY 2 : March 10th
Morning : Design. Theory in practice.
Afternoon : Thinking by doing.
Evening : Presentation of project ideas.

Discussion
We would like to start asking questions to open up the discussion, please comment below and ask more questions – we’ll answer in line 🙂
1>> When you think about environmentalism, what comes first to your mind? Is it the little actions like recycling / the activist social group / the green ‘leaders’ / green designs and brands / the materials we use / scientific research / global warming / your own body / your children / the philosophical current / something else? Which action has the strongest and longest lasting impact? Can you make a personal numbered list below here, in the comments?

2>> When you think about environmental politics, what comes first to your mind? How do you feel about the current relation between the environment and politics today? How does it affect the majority of peoples life?

3>> As a designer what do you think is your role about environmental issues?

Feel free to contact us before and after the workshop : contact {at} cesarharada {dot} com _ shannon {at} publiclaboratory {dot} org. Looking forward to meet you all! Cesar and Shannon.

Crowdsourcing site to fund arts projects
DIRECT APPROACH: Duncan Sarkies, left, and Stephen Templer have produced a podcast, Uncle Bertie's Botanarium, and are using crowd sourcing to fund it. Arts projects struggling to get funding are turning to crowd sourcing in a bid to get their projects …
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Shide – Crowd Funding "The Director's cut"

Shide - Crowd Funding

And so…The director’s cut! Visit our Official website: www.shide.it IndieGoGo Campaign Page here: www.indiegogo.com/shide-btw Visit our official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/shideofficial

Everyone Funding Startups Podcast - Crowd-funding for Innovation

Learn more about GrowVC by visiting our website at: www.growvc.com You can also look at this post related to this podcast on our blog at www.growvc.com Or listen and download for free the full episode of this podcast on iTunes, at the link indicated below. itunes.apple.com — What’s most appealing about Grow VC, what is it that gets us out of bed in the mornings and how does the future look from our point of view? In this episode, our new team member from NY, Marc shares his take on what’s going on in the world and what potential is waiting to be unlocked with the Grow VC model. Member Highlight: Roozz​.com GrowVc and future of crowd funding. “Easily makes any software run in the browser”

Advertising Forensics #7: Kickstarter and MMC crowd sourcing

Advertising Forensics #7: Kickstarter and MMC crowd sourcing review of websites and business models of crowd-funding businesses
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This iPhone app is an experiment in providing real-time information of how many people are standing in your line at the store (Apple, Best Buy, Radio Shack, AT&T) , what versions of the iPhone 4 people are buying and when certain iPhone 4 models sell out. But all this depends on YOU installing the app and using it when you go to pick up your iPhone 4. Help out in the experiment and install geo-poll.com on your iPhone today!

Latest Crowd Sourcing News

Check Point Launches Crowdsourcing Threat Cloud
Check Point has launched ThreatCloud – a tool built into the company's new GAiA operating system to let users share threat information with one another. The security company is trying to get protections out to users quicker than antivirus companies do, …
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Your HR department probably hates performance reviews too
Globoforce's Mosley thinks it's just a matter of habit for most employers, but he said some organizations are looking for alternatives, including “crowdsourcing feedback.” It's basically peer-to-peer reviews in real time, he explained.
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How Nissan Micra hopped on to Facebook with a crowdsourcing campaign to
For starters they signed on Ranbir Kapoor as brand ambassador; and then hopped on to Facebook with a crowd-sourcing campaign to create the necessary buzz. Yawn, another auto brand on Facebook? But this one promised to be different, with the Nissan team …
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Fashion turns to crowdsourcing
To fill the position, Dongre has turned to online talent sourcing platform, Talenthouse India, for what they call 'fashion crowdsourcing'. The website hosts various competitions in genres like fashion, graphic design, script-writing and even modelling, …
Read more on Hindustan Times