Webex Autostraddle: The Actual Website [scroll to the end for an update about all the cool stuff we have planned for 40k and beyond!!] How We Got Here: Autostraddle.com launched in March of 2009. Along with co-founders Riese and Alex, six ambitious young women approached the project with enthusiasm and a common vision of a hilarious, intelligent and provocative voice and progressively feminist online community for lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-inclined women. Autostraddle has since evolved into the most popular independently-owned queer-lady website in the world, and the second most popular queer-lady website period and we wanna keep it that way! But, lacking corporate support means we lack the in-house tech support (and the access to funds to pay for that), expert web development and programming and the full time staff that allows sites as large and complicated as ours to operate or evolve. Web development, on the other hand, was and is more expensive than we could handle. The Little Website That Could Girl Power Update #4
Network - Portal Integrador Total Global Crowdfunding To Nearly Double in 2012 to $3b (massolution Research Report) May 8, 2012 - massolution™, Crowdsourcing.org's sister company, a research firm specializing in crowdsourcing and crowdfunding solutions, released its first comprehensive Crowdfunding Industry Report. After collecting data from more than 170 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) and other sources, the results revealed that CFPs raised almost $1.5 billion and successfully funded more than one million campaigns in 2011. The majority of these campaigns were in the donation-based category totaling 1,067 campaigns, and North America was the largest market for fundraising at $837 million. As of April 2012, there were 452 crowdfunding platforms active worldwide; and massolution projects there will be more than 530 by the end of 2012. Massolution identifies, defines and tracks the market growth and composition of four categories of crowdfunding platforms: Research Methodology Journalists interested in a copy of the report can contact Jennifer Moebius at jennifer@moebiusink.com. About massolution
Tapahont.info The Top Five Crowdsourcing Mega-trends I had my eyes opened to the massive growth of the crowdsourcing industry at a SXSW panel earlier this year. Ever since then, I have been looking for an opportunity to bring more information on this trend to {grow}. I’m fortunate today to have an expert on the subject, David Bratvold, provide a guest post: If you’re not yet familiar with crowdsourcing, it’s a new work process that involves getting a crowd of people to help with a task typically performed by one employee or contractor. Imagine needing a new logo for your business. Rather than hire a freelancer, agency, or in-house designer, with crowdsourcing you can post your need and several designers will compete and create a custom logo just for you. While this is a common example, today crowdsourcing extends far beyond simple graphic design and can be broken down into four main subcategories: Microtasks – Taking a project and breaking it into tiny bits as seen on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“the online marketplace for work.”). All posts
Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - The Industry Website Auge del Crowdfunding: Hacia una cultura más compartida Parece que con esto de la crisis financiera el fenómeno del "crowdfunding" - también conocido como financiación colectiva o micromecenazgo- se está convirtiendo en una interesante alternativa para todos aquellos creadores que quieren ver sus proyectos culturales hechos realidad. El crowdfunding es una nueva forma de conseguir esa financiación que necesitan determinados proyectos para salir adelante, pero con la característica de que se realiza de forma colectiva. Si gusta o interesa una determinada idea, la gente dona una cierta cantidad de dinero que se destinará a la puesta en marcha de esa iniciativa. El proceso es bien sencillo: Una persona tiene una idea (cualquiera, si es buena, vale: un libro, un cómic, un CD de música, una película, un videojuego...) y la expone. Los cientos de usuarios verán esa idea, y si les gusta la apoyarán económicamente con la cantidad que mejor les parezca. ¿Dónde y cómo hacer crowdfunding?
La Tahona Cultural, web de crowdfunding para proyectos culturales - Publicaciones EDICIONES ASIMÉTRICAS SE LANZA A LA BÚSQUEDA DE MICROMECENAS, en estos momentos de incertidumbre para la edición impresa y los proyectos culturales, con el fin de publicar el libro LA DIVA EN CASA, la arquitectura del glamour, de Adam Bresnick. Se trata de una una obra muy sugestiva que aborda con originalidad un tema hasta ahora inexplorado. El libro cuenta la peculiar condición de las casas donde moran las divas, para las que se desvanece la separación habitual entre lo público y lo privado incluso en la intimidad del hogar. Son espacios domésticos insólitos, acordes con la personalidad desbordante y exhibicionista de la diva, cuyos elementos arquitectónicos usuales se transforman hasta convertirse la casa en el marco que realza a la diva y el altar donde se la adora. En el texto se repasan diferentes épocas personalizadas en diversos casos. Para hacer más accesibles al lector todos estos universos de la intimidad, la publicación cuenta con abundante material visual.