Monthly Archives: October 2011
There is quite a bit of data emerging on the potential of crowdsourcing. As we covered in our Power of Everyone video, the intersection of connectivity, collaboration, and cognitive surplus is creating an environment where ideas can proliferate and mature rapidly.
This post is an attempt to quantify each of these factors in some way, and understand how we can position ourselves best to ride this colossal wave and force called crowdsourcing. Continue Reading
More people today have the freedom, time, wealth, health, exposure, social mobility, and confidence to become social entrepreneurs. As David Bornstein puts it, “social entrepreneurs are individuals seeking meaningful work to build, join, advocate for, or support organizations that are more innovative, more responsive, and operationally superior to the traditional social structures. They have new ideas to address major problems, shifting economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.” Continue Reading