I’ve written about the crowd sourcing model for funding previously, both as it applies to charities with social media-styled Jolkona and artistic endeavors in the form of Kickstarter, and now I see today on ReadWriteWeb that this concept is being applied in similar ways with several new models.
Spot.us funds citizen journalism, SellABand allows fans to help [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, News on August 25th, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Tagged with: charity, Contenture, crowd sourced, donation, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, investment, Kickstarter, micro funding, resources, SellABand, Spot.us, start-up, startup, success
Kickstarter is a new online community platform for funding creative projects that works on the premise that small donations can quickly add up to a large amount of working capital, a model that was used to great success by the Obama campaign.
The site enables users (currently for U.S. residents and by invite only) who are [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Community, News, Philanthropy on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
Tagged with: Community, creative projects, funding, investment platform, Kickstarter, micro-payment model
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.