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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

Hybrid Crowdsourcing

DesignCrowd - Saturday, June 5, 2010

Yesterday, DesignCrowd launched a new form of crowdsourcing - hybrid crowdsourcing.  Its key feature is this: customers can invite specific designers to work on their design projects via paid invites and AT THE SAME TIME open their design contest up to any designer around the world who wants to submit a design. Here's how it works:  Customer browses our graphic designer directory and selects d Read more

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