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Crowdsourcing Forums, a Daily appointment
June 1, 2011… to ask and answer questions about this relatively new process that impacts business, funding, activism and communications. We thought it would be beneficial to bring together the companies and individuals who are contemplating – or utilizing – crowdsourcing to help develop best practices and elevate the quality of all of our crowdsourcing efforts.
Echoing my thoughts, Rafael Zatti, founder of ideias.me says “participating in the creation of the forums was amazing. Brazil is one …
E-petitions: a vote for the future?
January 27, 2011 Share Generally in life, I’m as upbeat and optimistic as the next guy (as long as the next guy’s another world-weary net geek). But when it comes to government crowdsourcing initiatives, I gotta admit, my cynicism radar starts to twitch. Like an out of control chemistry class, state funded crowdsourcing projects tend to start with a bang and end with a whimper.
Take the …
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November 1, 2010… in the New Yorker he argues that ‘new tools of social media’ are powerless as a force for activism or social change.
The (strong) ties that bind
Real, high risk, sustained activism is only possible, says Gladwell, when the activists are connected by strong ties. He takes the U.S. Civil Rights movement as his main example. The activists who stuck around and took risks had personal connections – friends and family also dedicated to the cause. A sort of morally virtuous form of …
When knowledge is power
August 2, 2010 Share
“ Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. ” Baron Acton (1834–1902)
For centuries great thinkers have warned of the grave threat that the state poses to individual liberty. Thankfully today, citizens of full democracies are protected by the rule of law, independent courts and free press. Great men …
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