Hello!

I love kicking back on Sundays to reflect upon the week that passed.
Note, however, this isn’t a typical Sunday for two reasons:

1) I had an incredibly awesome week… Not to say most weeks aren’t awesome, but a lot happened in the world of crowdsourcing and my brain’s been filled with new ideas.

And,

2) Today is the Super Bowl Sunday. It’s my duty to sit on the couch and watch men run amuck in tight spandex.

So before I hop in the car to drive to suburbs (ugg) for traditional Super Bowl BBQ festivities, I thought I would share some interesting crowdsourcing-related links from this week:

1) Crowdsourcing a better Gmail.
Gina (Lifehacker) presented at Web Directions North in Vancouver this week about the Better Gmail firefox extension and community who helped created it. Now, I might argue this is more OpenSource than Crowdsourcing - but the story is cool and so are the slides. After all, who doesn’t want a better Gmail?

2) CoverSourcing Part Duex.
The design duo at Cambrian House submitted some book cover designs for the crowd’s consideration to Random House UK’s CoverSourcing competition. The winning design will grace the cover of Jeff Howe’s upcoming book: Crowdsourcing - How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.

See their designs here, find and vote for them here, and submit your own here.

3) Crowdsourcing Panel at WebGuild’s Web 2.0 Expo.
Cambrian House’s own CEO Michael Sikorsky joined Jeremiah Owyang, Aaron Strout and Anil Rathi to discuss the validity of crowdsourcing and the how-to’s.

Fact is, some people hate the crowdsourcing model, others don’t understand it quite yet, and some think it’s truly the future of business (ie: making your company’s walls more porous so thoughts and insights from the masses can flow and filter through your business). Check out a great overview of the panel here.

For anyone set to take the stage at a conference in the near future, read this excellent post from Jeremiah Owyang about how to successfully moderate a panel.

4) The TwitterBowl - Rate today’s Super Bowl ads using Twitter
Another thumbs up to Jeremiah for this community initiative to rate super bowl ads. Sign up and put on your opinionated hat.

Have a great week!
-jasmine

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