Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

MycroBurst Receives Excellent Review!

Wednesday 8 June 2011 | Jessica Kornfeind

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Here at MycroBurst we love hearing about our customer’s experiences with our site and designers. Recently we received feedback from Terry Jones, the Founder and Former CEO of Travelocity, Chairmain of Kayak.com and business strategy speaker. Take a look at what he had to say about his experience: "I've been very intrigued by the crowdsourcing model, and found MycroBurst to be a very powerful way to source design services. It was much less expensive than traditional design methods, extremely fast, and overall, quite ...

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MycroBurst’s Most Unique Contests!

Friday 6 May 2011 | Keith J. Hamilton

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It is no secret that crowdsourcing graphic design is changing the way businesses all over the globe operate. Not only does crowdsourcing redefines the traditional employer-employee relationship, but it also allows thousands of talented people to compete against one another based on creativity alone. Not to mention, it’s a great system for entrepreneurs to get a little exposure. And being entrepreneurs ourselves, MycroBurst uses crowdsourcing to make thousands of unique and creative graphic designers accessible to businesses. After all, why confine ...

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Behind the Scenes: the New MycroBurst Video

Monday 18 April 2011 | Keith J. Hamilton

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You may have noticed some big changes to the MycroBurst website recently.  We've improved the website with a colorful new design, as selected by our Redesign the MycroBurst website contest. The biggest change, however, is the new video describing what MycroBurst is and how it works. Producing the video was a very creative and interactive process. We found a crowdsourced video production website, similar to MycroBurst, but for videos. We filled out a creative brief, posted our prize, and during the two weeks ...

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New MycroBurst Policy: Forgiving Past Mistakes

Friday 25 February 2011 | Keith J. Hamilton

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It’s not easy being a graphic designer, especially at MycroBurst where you may be working on dozens of projects at the same time. Sometimes designers make mistakes, unintentionally borrowing a design or an element from someplace else. There are a few designers who steal designs purposely, and we don’t tolerate it. However, every once in a while someone borrows a design element without realizing it, by accident. At MycroBurst, we have instituted a new policy regarding warnings and copyright issue forgiveness: “For every 25 ...



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The Power of Crowdsourcing – 5 Ways it’s Reshaping the World!

Thursday 19 August 2010 | Keith J. Hamilton

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Crowdsourcing has been steadily making its impact felt all over the globe. Corporate institutions and renowned think tanks alike are beginning to realize the long term benefits of this efficient problem solving system and are carefully readjusting their business strategies and existing infrastructure based on the results they achieve from crowdsourcing. While the advantages of crowdsourcing are many, here we will take a look at some ways it is helping to reshape the world as we know it today. 1. Increasing the ...

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