Feels like yesterday that Glasgow was buzzing, tweeting and talking all about Social Media Week 2011. Now it’s time for another SMW! From this morning to Friday, another 12 cities, including Tokyo, Singapore, Hamburg, Paris, and NYC are going to live the wonderful experience that Glasgow lived
Read more →Towards the end of last year, we were asked to write a blog series on crowdfunding for Social Media Week. The series has now come to an end. Below you can find a collection of the series’ posts. Keep an eye on this blog, we will continue to
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The Bicycle Academy, an innovative plan to train people to build bike frames whilst providing bikes to the developing world, used crowdfunding to generate the funds it needed to set up. The campaign was one of the most successful reward based campaigns raising £40,000 in just a few
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Our last few posts have been all about crowdfunding, a phenomenon that is picking up pace the world over. The proposed changes in legislation on crowdfunding for equity before the Senate in the USA, if passed, will probably give it another big push. Crowdfunding is set to become a common
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Talking about crowdfunding we often emphasised the influence of the new mindset that underpins the use of Social Media, and which exploit its reach, empowerment and engagement. The rapid evolution of social media gave free rein to the creation of ‘crowds’, which have been forming affinities around interests
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