Obama’s Stimulus Package – can crowdsourcing help?

I came across a post on crowdsourcing the stimulus package – and made my own comments to the blog. I’m copying the original post and my response here. An interesting approach!
 
Can Crowdsourcing control the Stimulus?
Posted by Vinson on Mar 24, 2009 in CrowdSourcing |
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As the federal government starts doling out billions of dollars from the economic recovery [...]

Smartsourcing – I’ll give you $2.00 if you tell me what it is

I just got a Facebook alert from Jonathan Spira, Senior Analyst at Basex on my latestTwitter update regarding my last blog post on enterprise crowdsourcing for cost reductions. OK, I am making this deliberately a little complicated, but that is what life is these days.
Jon referred me to a blog entry by his colleage, Cody Burke, on smartsourcing (http://www.basexblog.com/2009/03/19/in-the-briefing-room-smartsourcing-with-the-mechanical-turk/), defined [...]

Enterprise Crowdsourcing for cost reductions & process improvements – let’s get started!

Let’s Save Some Money. Do Not Delay – Get the Benefits Today!
“We are considering the final three options to help us do cost reductions. We will make our final decision in a month’s time, and expect to implement a system by September”.
Excuse me? Why wait??
I have had this conversation three times in the last month, [...]

A business is not a baby – story in Growing Business

 
Note – I like this article, especially my quote at the end:
“I’ve seen this company grow, shrink and back again, and sometimes it’s not very nice to you. Fundamentally, it’s a business. It’s not a baby. I have two children. You wouldn’t want to sell one of those because you got a really good offer from IBM,” [...]