The last couple of months we have seen the introduction of quite some books and blogs related to crowdsourcing (even crowdsourced books about crowdsourcing) but the man who came up with the word has been awkwardly silent on his blog. Readers of his blog were already aware of the reason: Jeff Howe is writing a […]

A lot of companies are terrified of what could happen if people start talking about them on the internet. There are a lot of examples indeed of cases where bloggers or online communities can cause a lot of trouble. The flip of the coin is at least as powerful however. If you give the people […]

Have a look at this list from the Open Sauce wiki by Cherkoff and Moore. I think it captures really well what’s important when engaging people in your company.
1. YES, AND… “Be willing to acknowledge and value what I have to say”
2. MAKE AN OFFER “Don’t show me an ad and ask me to admire […]

I have just been confronted with my bad behavior, and now publicly confess. While I was scrolling through our blog I saw this on the place of a beautiful picture:

Yes it’s true, I leeched! I didn’t upload the picture myself out of lazyness causing loss of bandwith for Stublog, the site where I found the […]

Over 100.000 people have responded to the call of GalaxyZoo to help with the classification of pictures of galaxies. The result of this mass collaboration is that every picture of galaxies that was uploaded on the site was analyzed and rated 30 times reaching high levels of validity.
“We’ve proved that random people are as good […]

Being a devoted believer in the potential of crowdsourcing for the public sector I was pleased this weekend by a great article in my local Amsterdam newspaper het Parool. The article is about a local problem that is relevant in a lot of cities in the Netherlands: the emergence of black and white schools. The […]