Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

WikiCG: A New Look for the New Year

January 04, 2012   renata   No comments

To kick off the new year we’ve given WikiCG a sleek new interface. Our WikiCG Studio allows everyone to contribute videos, photos, and audio content for a given topic that can then be used to support written documentation in a wiki such as Wikipedia.

WikiCG is the brainchild of Ward Cunningham (extreme programmer extraordinaire, bicycle commuter, popular tweeter, and inventor of the wiki) who traveled (via plane, not bike, to save time) from Portland to work with CitizenGlobal last year, and who continues to advise us from a distance. His idea is to expand wikis from text-only to all types of media, especially video.

The result has been some pretty awesome videos! A few of our favorites include “The Descent at White Eagle“  (ghost hunting at a Portland hotel), “Suomenlinna 2.3.2011” (paragliding along a snowy shore in Finland), “Steven the Sand Surfer” (sand surfing in Colorado), and “Starboard Paddlesurf” (paddle surfing up close).

Check out our new interface and watch the callout video featuring Ward. And then… contribute your own content!

We’d love your feedback on the new interface and on WikiCG, so please send us your comments, criticisms, and suggestions. Post here or write us at help@citizenglobal.com.

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Jingle Winner Announced for Los 40 Principales and Peugeot 207

October 25, 2011   Amanda   No comments
Los 40_Blog

We have a winner for the Los 40 Principales and Peugeot 207 jingle competition. User Juan Jose Perez Luna contributed a catchy jingle, and even overdubbed harmonies and varied instrumentation to his main vocal track.

Juan Jose Perez Luna has won the use of a Peugeot 207 for a weekend as well as 2 nights stay at NH. Congratulations Juan Jose Perez Luna, and thanks to all those who participated!

Watch it!

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Google Teams with Fox News to Crowdsource Questions for Republican Debate

September 24, 2011   renata   No comments

If you watched the Republican debate last night, you probably noticed the candidates being addressed by constituents via YouTube videos for some questions. Google teamed up with Fox News to enable viewers to upload questions in advance to YouTube via video or text. And these viewers were allowed to vote on their favorite questions. Once the debate started, people were given tools to vote on the best responses as they were being delivered and post their comments.

The result? Almost 19,000 questions were received and more than 100,000 votes were cast.

You can see the highlights here.

 

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Love in Action: Join the Conversation with Deepak Chopra

September 20, 2011   renata   No comments
Deepak Homebase: Love in Action

Deepak Homebase launched its Love in Action Production last week to post Callouts so audience members everywhere can upload their stories and participate in discussions with Deepak Chopra and his distinguished guests, celebrities who each bring their own social cause to the spotlight. Discussion and Callout topics include water fracking and drinking water safety with Mark Ruffalo; Cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment with Fran Drescher; And youth violence and redefining power, consciousness, and love with Russell Simmons and Erica Ford.

A surprise guest appeared on the Thursday night’s show: 50 Cent! He hopes to eradicate hunger in Africa with the United Nations World Food Program.

This afternoon, an article featuring Deepak’s dialog with Mark Ruffalo about the dangers of fracking was posted on Huffington Post with a link back to the Love in Action Production.

Check it out!

 

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