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7 things I learnt about crowd-sourcing @ SXSW

Posted by ChrisQ on Mar 13 2010 | Ideas-sharing, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

The best thing about SXSW is the people - as there's some really very smart people to learn from.  Here's 7 things learnt from @scottbelsky (founder of the Behance community) and @Jeffrey (UX director at Digg) about crowd-sourcing: 1) Jeff Howe coined the word "Crowd-sourcing" in 2006 2) Businesses have crowd-sourced 3 different things: 1) wisdom (e.g. Wikipedia) 2) Labour (e.g. Mechanical Turk) 3) Wisdom and labour (e.g. Digg… read more

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Bristol City Council’s New Website

Posted by Gez Smith on Mar 09 2010 | Conversations, Debate, Engagement, Ideas-sharing, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

I'm just back from this event, getting together the 'great and good' of the Bristol digital media community to discuss what the council should do with its new website. The backstory is that the council has seen that its current site doesn't fit what is needed either internally or externally, and so they're currently in procurement for a new CMS. After that, they're up for suggestions from the digital… read more

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MHRA Discussion site goes live

Posted by MichaelaD on Feb 12 2010 | Consultation, Engagement, Good examples, Ideas-sharing

MHRA’s medicines information discussion site goes live The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the government watchdog responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe, has commissioned an online discussion site asking the public whether key information about medicines should be available online. The discussion site, aimed at health professionals and the public, asks whether making the MHRA’s definitive database of patient information leaflets (PILs) and… read more

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Practical learnings from online patient opinion trials

Posted by ChrisQ on Jan 22 2010 | Delib news and events, Engagement, Ideas-sharing, Participation

I'm now out of hospital (thankfully); however, the patient crowd-sourcing website I set up whilst in hospital – as a frustrated patient – is still up and running. helpusimprovekings.org has had mixed success since its launch and we've learnt a huge amount over the time we've been running it so we thought we'd share these learnings. From a practical perspective, the key learnings have been:
  • Make it simple to use -
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