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There are some great crowd sourced projects in existence no more so than current.com launched in 2005 current.com is a collaboration with its audience.
Current connects young adults with what is going on in their world, from their perspective, in their own voices.
With tutorials, guides and more you can even make your own commercial and earn $1,000 if aired on Current TV. Or better still up to $60,000 if used else where.
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted and for good reason. I’ve been hauled (willingly) into a new project that is close to my heart. If your familiar with the ‘pink ribbon’ symbol then your already aware of breast cancer.
On the 2nd October 2007 a dear friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then I have been helping as best I could but not making the impact I would of liked until now.
Over our numerous discussions she agreed to keep a diary of her experience as something to look back on when her journey was finally over.
That diary is forming as ‘we speak’ and is currently a ‘work in progress’ (if you fancy a preview head over to pinkribbonandme) hence this has kept me away from nicheidea.
OK so enough of the history lesson, what has cancer got to do with crowd sourcing? Well in short everything!
Crowd sourcing can come in many guises, but once you break it down they have one common theme. The ‘crowd sourced’ collectively has one common goal to succeed. Susan Reynolds used twitter a community service to connect friends, family and colleagues using only 160 characters answering a simple question.
In Susan’s case ‘crowd sourcing’ came in the form of assistance with her journey with breast cancer, she has received referrals, research, cooking, encouragement, clothing, prayers, shared experiences, support and finally ‘crowd sourcing’ has started a fund raising campaign for the American Cancer Society in her name. Wow now that’s ‘crowd sourcing’ at its best. To read more click Susan Reynolds blog Boobs on Ice.
Remember Ebbsfleet United a small non league football club which used ‘crowd sourcing’ to galvanise members to dip into their pockets for the poultry sum of £35 each. This enabled the club to begin the process of changing ownership and gave the members a vote on picking the team amongst other club related matters.
At the time I commented you could be a member of a football club and have no say in the club at all. Well welcome to premiership ‘crowd sourcing’ aimed at Liverpool Football Club. It’s no secret the Liverpool faithful never wanted the club sold in the first place, let alone in American hands.
Seek and you shall find….Heard that before? Well I have loads! I’m keen to demonstrate there is already an active number of ‘crowd sourced’ projects in existence and that with a collective drive to succeed you can achieve anything. Ohmynews is an Korean online newspaper totally written by contributors in Korea.
Ebbsfleet United Football Club takes on ‘crowd sourcing’ I nearly overlooked this, assuming everyone knows about it already. Then I got an email from a footballing friend who said, you haven’t included Ebbsfleet United on your blog, this shows exactly how crowd sourcing works in real life. So I better get to it….
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