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	<description>Harnessing the wisdom of crowds</description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s CiviCrowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CiviCrowd is nearly here! In case you were wondering, it&#8217;s an easy to use, cost effective tool for crowdsourcing ideas from your community. We’ve done plenty of reading about previous attempts at this sort of thing, and hopefully have avoided &#8230; <a href="http://civicrowd.com/2011/06/28/heres-civicrowd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CiviCrowd is nearly here! In case you were wondering, it&#8217;s an easy to use, cost effective tool for crowdsourcing ideas from your community.</p>
<p>We’ve done plenty of reading about previous attempts at this sort of thing, and hopefully have avoided a few of the traps that other projects of this type have fallen into.</p>
<p>Our system:</p>
<ul>
<li>Is completely configurable and customisable in terms of look and feel, branding etc</li>
<li>Can ask for various bits of information in the idea submitting process to help structure the contributions</li>
<li>Allows ideas to be rated and commented on by other visitors</li>
<li>Displays prominent lists of the most popular and latest ideas to be submitted</li>
<li>All content can be pre-moderated before being published</li>
<li>As it’s WordPress, you can publish other content like news or blog posts and static pages with help and other information in</li>
<li>As it’s all open source, you can pull your data out whenever you like and host it somewhere else</li>
</ul>
<p>We&#8217;re just finalising our first project for a client, after which we will have a few things to actually show. If you&#8217;d like a sneaky peak, though, I&#8217;m sure we could sort something. Just <a title="Contact" href="http://civicrowd.com/contact/">drop us a line</a> to ask.</p>
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