Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2010

MyCustomer.com has just published a nice article based on an interview with me, titled Ross Dawson: Six tools to kickstart your crowdsourcing strategy. After beginning with some background on the topicality of crowdsourcing, the article goes on: But suddenly crowdsourcing seems to be reaching some kind of critical mass.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It's now two weeks since Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 , and I am only just now able to download some of what happened at the event. bhc3: #foc10 Winsor: Victors & Spoils are developing reputation ratings for creatives based on their crowdsourcing contributions. Things have been crazy for me for a little while now.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 9, 2010

The series kicks off with a very exciting evening event in Sydney on 31 May on Getting Results from Crowdsourcing. The keynote panel discussion features the CEOs of some of the great companies that are making Australia a global hub for crowdsourcing: - Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com. Full details are on the event page.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I am not that keen on the word "crowdsourcing", because people mean many different things when they use the term. I was struck by a post by Steve Kelman on The dark side of crowdsourcing? crowdsourcing zittrain. Tags: Social media Social trends Technology trends Web 2.0

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Wiens says the effort began with a crowdsourcing campaign to collect repair information for hospital equipment, with a focus on “ventilator documentation, anesthesia systems, and respiratory analyzers — devices widely used to support COVID-19 patients.” It also provides more than 13,000 manuals from hundreds of medical device manufacturers.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

That means that — similar to Apple’s own AirPods — you’ll be able to use the Find My app on iPhone and Mac devices to locate your missing headphones, using the same crowdsourced network of Apple products that the company’s own first-party devices can use.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Most organizations have vastly more unstructured than structured data, and to extract value from their current trove requires a preliminary exercise of structuring and tagging that data that can be expensive and time-consuming. Effective tagging as data is gathered will pave the way for far broader and deeper applications of the data.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

To show me Daniel created a visual network analysis of the Twitter activity around Future of Crowdsourcing Summit (#foc10) that we ran a few weeks ago in Sydney and San Francisco. Top url shared in #FOC10 tweets was the BBC story " Crowdsourcing work: Labor on demand or digital sweatshop?".

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CIO Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

By the time you see this someone will have yet another smart ring on the market or on a crowdsourced funding site. This makes the ring a NFC tag or equivalent of a smart card. This Gizmodo Article is good background and a decidedly downer of an article about the current state of the technology. The Current Rings. Ships in May 2014.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 3, 2010

Crowdsourcing tools on one level provide access to extraordinary talent that can be harnessed in ways limited only by imagination. Tags: Australia Crowdsourcing Future of business Global economy Keynote speaker. I discussed the overwhelming trend of how a connected world is shifting power from institutions to individuals.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 6, 2010

We are putting a lot of attention into crowdsourcing – both creating content and analysis about it and tapping it ourselves. The APIs to crowdsourcing tools are also very important, in allowing the integration of human tasks and automation within business processes. Technology hasn’t been nearly enough on the agenda in this election.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The many applications of crowdsourcing provide examples of this. Tags: Crowdsourcing Future of business. While all of these are significant, it is point 4, about how networks of individuals can replace existing organizational structures, that takes much of my attention. If you are, then it provides amazing opportunities.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The Age today has an interesting article titled Outsourcing on steroids that looks at the array of online technologies that are enabling the outsourcing of small tasks and the crowdsourcing of design, innovation, and other key business functions. 99designs crowdsourcing designbay odesk outsourcing.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 20, 2010

The Economist this week addresses the wonderful world of online freelancing and crowdsourcing, under the rubrik Work in the digital age. Tags: Crowdsourcing Future of business freelancer liveops odesk theeconomist. The full article is well worth a read.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2010

After Future of Crowdsourcing Summit in San Francisco next week I will be heading on to New York, where among other things I will be at the Ketchum Global Media Network meeting where I will do the keynote and participate in a panel on the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) media landscapes. Tags: Future of media Global economy.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Tags: Business relationships Crowdsourcing Global economy. While the discipline of managing global virtual teams has been a flourishing domain since the 1990s, still very few companies are even half good at it, particularly when it goes beyond internal team members.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 4, 2010

Design Crowd - A leading global crowdsourcing marketplace for creative services. Tags: Australia Social networks Social trends 10x10 creativesydney. Vasili Kaliman - Contemporary art dealer, event organizer, online publisher. Remember The Milk - World leading online to do list. David Holloway - Editor, The Metaverse Journal.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Tags: Cloud Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0 What every business needs is a deep understanding of the forces of change and what’s needed to tap into them. There are ongoing forces of change – a business can not be run as a steady state,’ says Dawson. Every business needs to take advantage of changes.’. Social networks.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Is there a place for solitary work and achievement in this age of teams, collaboration, KM, social media, crowdsourcing, etc? Tags: Creativity Mastery Work as Art Concept Work Descartes Euclid learning Newton passion thinking. Can one person still “change the world&# , all by themselves?

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 25, 2010

crowdsourcing etc. Tags: Australia General. Capabilities Required: Know the disciplines to manage projects and keep a distributed team on track. Editing/ Writing: We publish high-value reports on cutting-edge issues such as iPad strategy, future of cities, social media monitoring, Enterprise 2.0,

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 5, 2007

At the moment most video search uses only the title, any tags given by the author or others, and potentially words used in links to the video. The other key aspect to search is embedded video tagging. One thing that Gabriel didn’t mention in the interview was the mechanisms that Google intends to use for video search.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 31, 2007

The four spaces that emerge at the junctions of these dimensions are Widget/ component ; Rating/ tagging ; Aggregation/ Recombination ; and Collaborative filtering. Landscape * Sixty two prominent Web 2.0 Collectively these cover the primary landscape of Web 2.0. As with all our frameworks, the Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 31, 2007

Technorati Technorati has several features to track trends in the blogosphere, including a tag cloud of recent tags to blog posts showing blogging activity trends. Conversation Tracker follows conversational threads and Featured Trends are editorially-selected trend comparisons. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 11, 2008

Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : australia , brw , online applications , web 2.0 We have information on all of the apps listed last year and those that applied to Vishal Sharma’s Startup Carnival earlier this year and those featured on his startup blog (a great resource!).

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 8, 2008

Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : dataportability , myspace , wide open web About the blog author Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker , strategy advisor, and bestselling author. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 10, 2008

Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (2) Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : robotic pets , robots , ross dawson 2 Comments Alex Manchester said: Although not so personally keen on the pet idea, I think youre right, Ross. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 7, 2008

Permalink | View blog reactions Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : laurie lock lee About the blog author Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker , strategy advisor, and bestselling author. I look forward to Laurie’s insights on his blog.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 13, 2008

Permalink | View blog reactions Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : automated content creation , publishing About the blog author Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker , strategy advisor, and bestselling author.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

Crowdsourcing and Two-Way Communications, Cell Phones. In any emergency – even a minor disaster like a major fire or a pile-up collision – just obtaining and distributing information early and often will have a significant result in managing the problem. The Seattle Times actually did this a bit, crowdsourcing snow depths from Facebook.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 16, 2007

Now similar tools – including blogs, wikis, online applications, tagging, mashups and more – are being applied to create business value and change how work is done. Invitation to attend the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum The rise of Web 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Tags describe content with words, locations etc. New mechanisms will emerge that draw on people’s web activities, tagging, specific communities, and combine these perspectives in various ways to create more refined user filtering. Links are stronger and more valid votes on the value of content. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 10, 2008

Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : dataportability , openness , social networks About the blog author Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker , strategy advisor, and bestselling author. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 23, 2010

We have just posted an ad over at CrowdsourcingResults for a senior researcher/ writer for a forthcoming report on crowdsourcing we are doing. Seeking exceptional senior researcher/ writer for report on crowdsourcing. Advanced Human Technologies is publishing a highly practical report to help people use crowdsourcing tools well.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 1, 2007

You can click input, tag input and rate input and as you get more input on creating outcomes, emergent results occur. Dawson likes to refer to this organisational shift as Enterprise 2.0, where the tools and approaches of Web 2.0 are now captured inside the enterprise. Things get better the more people that use them.” Just as Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The theme of Future of Crowdsourcing Summit , coming up soon in San Francisco and Sydney, is how crowdsourcing (applying the minds of many) is the future of everything. Anything of human creation, which is most of what we know, has in some ways a crowdsourced future. Government. Social change.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 7, 2008

Framework for insights on the web landscape today Looking for a great blog writer for Crowdsourcing Results site No more checking in: why public facial recognition may take off Four awesome animations on YouTube Is our propensity for social media part of our design - so humans are stepping stones to the creation of a global brain?

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

When people individually add tags to images, documents, or other content, the combined results is a way of categorizing the Internet’s vastness. There is no librarian for the Internet, but through tagging we can collectively make it useful and manageable. User filtering helps make sense of the enormity of user generated content.

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