It’s all about the “crowd” at Cambrian House – wisdom of crowds (such as comments, feedback and filtering of ideas) and participation of crowds (such as finding the perfect team of people to help launch an idea into reality). IdeaWarz is Cambrian House’s poster child of “wisdom of crowds” because top ideas as ranked by community members immediately gain entry into the competition and winning ideas get to bask in fame and fortune. This week we chose to turn up the number of winners by creating weekly mini-tournaments and a quarterly tournament that’ll have Mark Burnett wishing he’d thought of it (well, maybe not quite).

How it works:

1. You submit an idea to Cambrian House.
2. Each Wednesday at Noon, voting starts. Community members vote on all ideas submitted the previous week.
3. Wednesday at Noon the following week, the top idea as rated by the crowds is awarded $100 Cambros (C$100) and secures a spot in the IdeaWarz Tournament of Champions.

Submit your idea and see what the crowd thinks.
May the best idea win!

No wait, I still have questions…

Holy cow batman, my idea is in this week’s voting - what do I do now?

1. Upload an image relating to your idea- pics say 1,000 words, and can serve as an awesome promo for your idea, or even yourself!
2. Complete your elevator pitch- elevator pitches have been a mainstay in the biz world for a good reason: they explain your idea in an energetic, yet concise manner. Want the crowd to vote for you? They better understand your vision.
3. Promote your idea to the world- share your idea on Facebook, your other fav sites, or e-mail your friends. From the My Ideas page, browse to your idea and click the ‘promote this idea’ link.
4. Keep an eye on your idea during the week, people will be posting comments and asking you questions. The more you engage them in conversation, the more invested they become, and the more polished your idea gets.

How do I vote on ideas?
Just go to the Ideas section on CambrianHouse.com and start exploring ideas, voting on ideas and lending your brilliance by posting comments and feedback.

I didn’t win this week’s voting, now what?
Tweak your idea and re-submit for next week’s voting by clicking the ‘Enter into next voting round’ link on the My Ideas page.

Or convert your idea into a business and get cracking. Not being Top Dog doesn’t mean you can’t connect with other members to make your idea better and commercialize it.

If an idea is not in the current voting round, can I still see it and vote on it?
You can view all ideas by clicking ‘All’ on the Ideas sub-nav bar. You can always leave a comment but can only rate the idea if it is in the current voting round.

Will IdeaWarz (ideawarz.com) still run monthly?
No, ideawarz.com will be the new home of our quarterly IdeaWarz Tournament of Champions.

How will contenders be selected for the Tournament of Champions?
The top idea each week (as determined by total points) secures a spot in the Tournament of Champions.

Why only quarterly?
If you’ve heard of American Idol, think of the Weekly IdeaWarz as auditions and the Tournament of Champions as the actual show where the champion wins BIG!

If you haven’t heard of American Idol…do you live in a cave or something?

Huh…I still don’t get it.
Each week there’s an idea competition with one winner - the idea with the highest total points.

Each quarter, the last 12 winners of the weekly competitions plus a few wildcards hand picked by experts (like celeb judges on American Idol), battle it out in the Tournament of Champions.

Why wildcards? What better way to test the wisdom of crowds then to pin the crowd against a few so-called experts?

Why the change?
Our vision is to be a Web 2.0 community where individuals and businesses can leverage the wisdom and participation of crowds for commerce. So we’re rolling up our sleeves and creating tools to unleash the power of crowdsourcing and make it available to everyone.

Weekly IdeaWarz means the crowd chooses to highlight ideas more frequently, the pace is more exciting, and more ideas get time in the spotlight - giving them the chance to attract team members to take the idea to the next level.

The goal is that we’ll release IdeaWarz as a tool available to members for their own projects/ideas. For example, Prezzle should be able to quickly throw up “PrezzleWarz” so people can select the Prezzle they’d like to see created next.

Hence, wisdom of crowds lets you determine the feature/product/idea that is more enticing to a market BEFORE spending energy and resources to build it.

Have your say by voting today and let us know what you think by leaving a comment!

Hiya all,

This latest release of the website has some new transaction features definitely worth checking out if you are going pro on your idea.

What makes crowdsourcing interesting is that members can compensate one another for each others’ feedback, ideas, work, etc. Wisdom and participation of crowds is worth everything to someone who wants to make their idea come to life, or build a game-changing business.

Reward team members with Cambros

You can now reward team members for working on your business by purchasing and distributing your own Cambros. Cambros can be bought via the My Account tab off of your profile.

1 Cambro = 1 USD. Payments are processed using PayPal (which also supports straight up VISA).

Reward team members with Royalty Points

Some businesses champions might not want to pay Cambros, and some members might prefer being compensated by being guaranteed a slice of the business’ revenue. We’ve designed Royalty Points so you can do just that.

Distribute Cambros and Royalty Points using the Finance tab under your business.

Stay tuned for next week when we release the first version of the Bazaar - your meeting place for exchanging goods and services within the community.

Hiya all,

We’ve created this new category to discuss all things regarding the Cambrian House product (website).

Here you will find:

• new product releases
• feature updates
• tips and tricks
• and good product information

Stay tuned as we will be releasing new website feature information here very shortly.