Citizen Effect The Future of Crowdfunding on Tap in Berlin This Week Editor's Note: Lately we've been telling you about the debut week-long global crowdsourcing event, Crowdsourcing Week, taking place in Singapore in June. Leading up to the main event June 3 - 7, a series of one-day summits are also being held. The third and final event in the series looks at "The Future of Crowdfunding," set for April 17 in Berlin. Karsten Wenzlaff, Founder and Partner at ikosom and the main organizer of the "Future of Crowdfunding" summit answered a few questions for Crowdsourcing.org in advance of the event. Tell us about crowdfunding in Europe in general, and its adoption in Germany. Europe has more platforms and a greater variety of crowdfunding platforms than any other continent in the world. In Germany, we see a variety of legal models being applied to crowdinvesting, from success-based loans to non-voting equity to funds to collective societies. What are the important issues that arise while crowdfunding in the public sector?
Featured Article - One Year Report Preface This article is a one-year report on the experiments with Donationware at DonationCoder.com. Throughout the article I will focus on the specific experiences of our site (DonationCoder.com) in attempting to strike a kind of middle ground - keeping software free but making enough money from donations to fund the site. This is not an article about how to make money with Donationware or an advertisement for our site. It's addressed primarily to authors who would prefer to keep their software freely available, whether for ethical or practical reasons, but need to find some way to make enough money to justify the time spent coding. You will not get rich making Donationware. 1. The reasons for writing free software are numerous and have been discussed elsewhere in depth [1a,1b]. Some coders are freeware authors for ethical reasons - believing that software should be available to everyone regardless of their financial means. 2. There are other alternatives. 3. 4. Supporter Yearbook 5.
Top 10 Indie Tools Every week brings the launch of another online service to connect musicians and fans. Beyond spending endless hours on MySpace and Facebook, what are the best affordable online tools to communicate with fans and monetize the relationship? Here are our picks in no particular order: 1. BANDZOOGLE - It all starts with a great web site and these guys give you the tools to build one quickly. If your site doesn't do everything Bandzoogle does, ask your designer why or switch. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10. If you you found if helpful please Digg and Stumble this story. What are your favorite D.I.Y tools? Peerbackers | crowdfunding big ideas 7 crowdsourcing websites that you should keep an eye 2011 Das Jahr 2010 war für Online-Crowdsourcing-Plattformen durchaus ein erfolgreiches und auch 2011 könnte noch die ein oder andere Überraschung in diesem Segment bereit halten. Gründerszene hat sich daher den Jahreswechsel einmal zum Anlass genommen, um einen Überblick über sieben sehenswerte europäische Crowdsourcing-Plattformen zusammen zu stellen. Crowdsourcing meint die Auslagerung von Arbeitsinhalten auf die Intelligenz und die Arbeitskraft einer Masse von Freizeitarbeitern im Web, was von der Erstellung von Logos über Modedesigns bis hin zur Finanzierung von Geschäftsideen reichen kann. Das Konzept Crowdsourcing hat zuletzt weiter deutlich an Größe gewonnen. Garmz zur Vermarktung von Fashion Garmz ist ein innovatives Portal, welches jungen und unabhängigen Modedesignern eine Plattform zur Vermarktung ihrer Produkte bietet. Wooshii richtet sich an Video-Artists Wooshii ist eine neue Website, die Kunden mit Video-Artists verbindet. Red Bubble für Creative-Production
Stumbleupon - better pass your time on the Where can I find it? Here is the website of stumbleupon. How does it look? The guys from stumbleupon have created a bunch of screenshots, so I wouldn't have to make my own. Uhm, WHAT is it? StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. and what makes this better then any other service of this kind? To be frank, I don't know of any service, but maybe these should be listed or even reviewed here as well. Why do you bother us with this then? It actually lets you stumble upon interesting websites! I see stumbleupon as a great way to pass time. What makes you use it? It is easy to install, easy to use; it does not distract the user, and it stays out of the way. * easy to install: the "sign up" button sends you a mozilla site or extensions. * easy to use: one click to rate sites, one click to stumble upon the next site, one click to tag a site, on click to see what others had to say, one click... you get the picture. Where's the hook? My Impression Hmmm how should I put it, it's solid.
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