Crowdsourcing: The Next Digital Age Phenomenon?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Crowdsourcing site Kickstarter
I attended recently what might be termed a crowdsourcing event.
It was a Meetup.com group involving a presentation at a popular New York bar by Pepsi’s Gatorade brand team.  At the end of their presentation, the Gatorade folks solicited ideas for revamping the sports drink’s image from a room of social media and marketing [...]

MySpace and Facebook: The Ups and Downs of Social Media Companies

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch was regarded as a genius for scooping up MySpace for $580 million, besting media rival Sumner Redstone in the process.  Murdoch is now being second-guessed. This week the social media giant announced plans to cut about 420 employees – about 30% – of its U.S. staff and 450 employees – about [...]