Articles in Social Finance
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing.
See how to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), how to use the crowd to develop and test new ideas (Open Innovation), to access an on-demand scalable workforce (Cloud Labor) and how to use the crowd to raise capital (Crowdfunding).
This research represents MindfulMoney.co.uk’s state-of-play analysis of the most influential conversations about investments on the social web.
The social network analysis was sponsored by MindfulMoney.co.uk as part of their ongoing initiative to help facilitate a more mindful and social conversation about investments by embracing new and unconventional voices, channels and views.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) micro-finance is expanding from lending marketplaces like Zopa to peer-to-peer affinity-driven financial support for a wide variety of projects. Several names are used to describe the phenomen is a kind of a crowdsourcing initiative and is usually named as crowdfunding or social finance.
There are a number of websites accomodating crowdsourcing, many of them in creative domains, as described in Ross Dawson’s article How to raise money from the crowds.
Per conoscere di più su Kiva e su un caso reale di Social Lending, si consiglia la lettura dell’articolo su Wired di Febbraio 2010 intitolato Matt Flannery (fondatore di Kiva).
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