5 Reasons Why Crowdsourcing is Beneficial for Online Education
This post is guest written by Rene Wilson of DegreeJungle. She has outlined an introduction to crowdsourcing as it applies to online education. The term “crowdsourcing” comes with a wide range of...
View ArticleHot Topic: Community Moderation
IdeaScale often receives questions about best practices and ideas for training and encouraging successful moderators. The questions go something like this: -What role does moderation play in a...
View ArticleGlobal Collaboration: A Linguistic Profile
There are many challenges to operating in numerous countries, but chief among them are the language barriers that disrupt true company collaboration. In order to offer some further insight into a...
View ArticleTo Build or To Buy (Innovation Software): That is the Question
Every seasoned salesman has had this question posed to him on a semi-regular basis, “What is the value of buying your software when I can just build my own?” Not surprising, since we are living in an...
View ArticleGood Idea or Bad Idea: Crowd Sushi
Over lunch the other day, someone told a story of a friend of ours who had traveled to China. He stopped in for some sushi that was catering to American tourists and as our friend looked over the menu,...
View ArticleGlobal Collaboration Is Only Possible with Language Translation
Let me introduce you to Alessandra: an Italian lawyer at an international bank who is working in Milan. She’s got some great ideas about how their mobile application development might impact their...
View ArticleHealthTap Raises $24 Million
It is a fortunate thing to have health insurance and to be able to go see a doctor when something goes wrong, but like so many first world problems, I am annoyed at numerous inefficiencies in the...
View ArticleIntroducing IVAN: Crowdsourced Environmental Issue Tracking
It happens rather frequently, I’ll be driving through a spray of pesticide or I’ll notice a car that is chugging black smoke behind it down the highway. It’s a terrible blight on my experience, but...
View ArticleDo You Hate Fun and Bangin’? Don’t Read this Post.
In a unique opportunity, IdeaScale had the chance to interview the mystery CEOs of the much-talked-about, upstart start-up Bang with Friends whose mobile application went live last week. In case you...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why the E2 Conference Matters
The following is a guest post by Romi Mahajan. Mahajan’s work on network intelligence and sincere marketing has been mentioned in several other blog posts. Here, Mahajan talks about the importance of...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Event Timelines with HistoWiki
Anyone who is familiar with the movie Vantage Point knows that different perspectives tell a different story, and unlike holography – one truth does not necessarily reflect the sum of truth, so an...
View ArticleShared Tragedy, Shared Response
Anyone who was under the thrall of drama presented by the Boston bombings would not have failed to notice that within hours (possibly minutes) of the tragedy, crowdfunding projects were published on...
View ArticleSocial Engagement: 5 Lessons Learned from Amy’s Baking Company Bakery...
It’s been an internet favorite in recent weeks, the epic failure and subsequent social media meltdown of Samy and Amy Bouzaglo. Although the proprietors of the horrifying Arizona restaurant featured on...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Entertainment: Netflix vs. Amazon
Several of my friends waited up until midnight a few weekends ago when the 15-episode revival of Arrested Development season four, which was released in total on Netflix. Several of those friends...
View ArticleIdeaLytics Offers New Data Visualization
It’s not just about gathering information anymore, it’s about how you share that information, about how you make sense of it. It’s the difference between data and data that leads to action. Just ask...
View Article70 Creative Reward Suggestions
No matter what you’re using your ideation or crowdsourcing community for, it’s proven that using incentives can improve not only the level of engagement, but also the quality of the content that’s...
View ArticleI Think I’m Being Watched: The Trend Towards Personalization
Most of the messages in my inbox nowadays are not only addressed to me in the subject line, they sometimes include cute abbreviations or nicknames of my given name. If I visit a webpage or an online...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft’s Chip In
We’ve written about other student crowdfunding and crowdsourcing solutions before on this blog, but this new one has a great marketing blush about it. This is my new favorite Microsoft promotional...
View ArticleUnited States Navy Improves Administrative Performance with Employee Engagement
Berkeley, July 1st, 2013 – IdeaScale, leading idea management software provider, is pleased to announce that it is providing the cloud-based crowdsourcing platform for the US Navy’s new initiative...
View ArticleGovernment Work Musts: Social, Collaborative, Accessible
IdeaScale came of age in the advent of Obama’s Open Government Initiative and, during that time, we perfected both our public and private communities based on our work with numerous Federal agencies....
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