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How to Run a Creative Web Design Contest (5 Tips and 5 Examples)

DesignCrowd - Friday, November 19, 2010

Web design contests involve posting a brief and getting 20, 30, 50 (or sometimes 100-plus!) web design concepts from designers around the world.  Clients all request different things - but one thing we often see requested by clients is "Creativity required!" so in this blog we will highlight what to do to maximize the creativity you receive when running a web design contest.Below are 5 Successful  Read more

The biggest employer in the world: a Chinese Crowdsourcing Site?

DesignCrowd - Wednesday, November 3, 2010

If you did a quick internet search to find the list of the largest employers in the world, you would get the following well-known organizations: Peoples Liberation Army, China, 2,300,000 employees Wal-Mart Stores, United States, 1,800,000 employees Indian State Railways, India, 1,400,000 employees National Health Service, UK, 1,300,000 employees Deutsche Post, Germany, 502,545 employees H Read more

Crowdsourcing Is Not New - The History of Crowdsourcing (1714 to 2010)

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 28, 2010

Crowdsourcing is a buzz word that was coined in Wired Magazine by author Jeff Howe in 2006, but the process of crowdsourcing was invented as early as 1714. Since then, crowdsourcing has helped create some of the world's greatest inventions and biggest brands. Read the blog to find out more about how crowdsourcing competitions have shaped our lives. Read more

Top 10 iPad Apps for Business

DesignCrowd - Friday, September 10, 2010

By Alec LynchThe other week I attended a series of expert round tables for small businesses and technology companies hosted by The Insight Exchange (topics included search marketing, content curation, iPhone app development etc).  Each round table had about 10 people allowing for small, up-close interactions.My favorite round table presentation was from a guy that used his iPad to present.  He pro Read more

Edward Norton & Crowdsourcing Philanthropy

DesignCrowd - Thursday, July 15, 2010

By Alec LynchMeet Crowdrise (www.crowdrise.com) an online fundraising service that is essentially a charitable crowdfunding site (based on the principles of crowdsourcing).Crowdrise is genius and, at some level, a very pure form of crowdsourcing.  Here's how it works:If you need to fundraise for something (for say a Gulf Oil Spill clean up effort or a Maasai village that needs a tru Read more

Crowdfunding sites - how to raise funds from friends and strangers

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Crowdfunding websites are a new way to get money from the community / other people for your project, charity or business and they are an exciting new application of crowdsourcing!Here's a definition of crowdfunding from Wikipedia:Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing or crowd sourced capital)describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool  Read more

Crowdsourcing Video - 5 Tips for Small Business Crowdsourcing

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, June 29, 2010

By Alec LynchCrowdsourcing can take many forms - for example, you can crowdsource feedback, you can crowdsource t-shirts, you can crowdsource funding and (of course) you can crowdsource design (DesignCrowd is a crowdsourcing design website).  Each crowdsourcing application uses a different process some use voting, some use collaboration and some use competition (DesignCrowd uses the compe Read more

Top 7 Free Online Small Business Forums

DesignCrowd - Monday, May 24, 2010

Online forums are useful resources for small businesses. They can help you solve a problem; provide a means of business networking; and/or help you advertise your goods / services. Here are 7 of the top online, free small business, entrepreneur, start-up forums. Read more

Logo Redesign Disasters - See the Top 5 (2000 to 2010)

DesignCrowd - Friday, March 26, 2010

Getting a great loog is so important - checkout these logo dedesign disasters from 2000 to 2010 - and how they could have been avoided.  Read more

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