Dutch minister of Economic affairs Mrs. Van Der Hoeven talked yesterday about RedesignMe.com in her yearly Innovation Lecture as being the example of an effective community of talents. “RedesignMe.com can be an inspiration for product developers and decission makers in using the massive creative potential of online communities.” Dutch press release here.
We are happy to announce that we are nominated for the Shell LiveWIRE award! This award goes to the most innovative new company of the Netherlands. We congratulate the other 12 nominated companies.
Today RedesignMe has been interviewed for Dutch Newspaper TV. http://www.ed.nl/video/regionieuws/article3920509.ece
Unfortunately our website was not reachable today for a couple of hours. This was due to problems at our access provider Claranet.nl. A heavy duty cable was damaged by workers and this left the entire High Tech Campus without an internet connection for 4 hours. This was a good moment for us to start thinking about a distributed server system. 
Btw. We laughed our asses off when we saw the advertisement of Claranet on their website. Zero-downtime eh?
As our online community is starting to grow we needed a better overview of who’s who. That’s why we updated the Redesigners section. As you can see we also introduced a level system. People who earn RDMs rise in level. Last but not least we added a “My website” field and a “About Me” field to your profile page. So now you can tell other Redesigners a little bit about yourself!
Once in a while we track back to blogs that write about crowdsourcing, co-creation or RedesignMe in general. It’s good to see that more and more people (and companies!) are learning the benefits of crowd-sourcing and it’s good to realise we are at the beginning of this new era.
Blogger Ashlee Simmons writes today: “I ran across something else today that ties in with crowdsourcing. I heard about a new company called RedesignMe, which pays users to critique, design and help to build communications tools. I’ve heard of sites that pay you to comment, post, write and brainstorm, but this is very new and exciting.Who wouldn’t love to be paid for helping out? Crowdsourcing is great, I think. I am very pro-let the crowd help out. That said, I don’t like the downside of crowdsourcing, which usually means low pay. I can see the benefit for companies, but it’s not fair to workers.”
I partially agree with Ashlee on the downside of Crowdsourcing. We shouldn’t overlook the long term effects of the efforts of the crowds, which really do pay back but not by means of money but by means of less frustrating products and also the feeling of actually having participated in the creation of something big.
Today we are featured on www.springwise.com . They write: “This is where Generation C(ontent) becomes Generation C(ash), and it’s where crowdsourcing will reach its true potential. Companies benefit from the wisdom of the crowds, the crowds benefit with rewards and better products—and sites like RedesignMe benefit from facilitating it all. One to emulate on a niche or localized basis!” Thanks for the attention guys!
This commercial was made by 2 students of CMD Breda (a Communication & Multimedia Design school in Breda, The Netherlands) as part of a Freespace assignment in February 2008.
We like it a lot!