Tag: crowdsourcing

Crowd Funding video

Here’s a video about crowd funding (or ‘crowd financing’) for projects and businesses in the creative industries. For more information about crowd funding for creative projects, see ‘Raising Finance by Crowd Funding’ and a related article ‘Iron Sky: A Crowd Sourced Movie‘. Embed this video in your own website or blog from the T-Shirts and …

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Raising Finance for Creative Projects by Crowdfunding

This Financial Times article reports on a new initiative to fund arts projects by crowd funding / crowd financing. The ‘We Fund’ website enables individuals to donate small amounts of money to arts related projects in return for credits, perks and other benefits. In return for pledges of amounts of cash between £1 GBP and …

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Iron Sky: a crowd-sourced movie

Iron Sky is a sci-fi movie that will be produced collaboratively on the internet using the Wreck a Movie site and partly funded by selling ‘war bonds’. Iron Sky is the next movie from the creators of Star Wreck. It’s a creative collaboration using crowd-sourcing and crowd-financing – two of the important new business developments …

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The Creative Business: 12 Modules

The Creative Business is a series of 12 modules of information about developing creative enterprises, written especially for people running businesses in the creative industries. The information is particularly relevant to creative businesses and cultural enterprises in the fields of Advertising, Literature and Publishing, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Design, Cultural Heritage, and Crafts. Written …

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The LEGO Crowd

Lewis Pinault from Lego Serious Play addressed the Creative Clusters Conference in Glasgow – and I had fun making a duck (see photo). Lego Serious Play helps businesses think creatively using Lego in group settings to discuss business issues. For example entrepreneurs can express their shared vision for the business by first creating a model …

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Viral marketing – MUTO video

Thanks to Danielly Netto from Newcastle University Business School, who’s researching business models in the creative industries, for including this viral video in her presentation. This is a video from artist BLU showing the awesome MUTO ‘animated graffiti’ work in Buenos Aires. Published on the internet using a Creative Commons licence, it’s already had about …

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