By Konrad from Elliottsweb for Indigo Productions

I spent this year’s Thanksgiving in Downer’s Grove, IL at my friend’s parents’ home.  The atmosphere was great and the food delicious—everything was simply wonderful!  Now, what’s interesting is the fact that all the goodies on the table were provided courtesy of crowdsourcing…sort of!

Coincidentally, we JUST WROTE about both crowdsourcing and crowdfunding on our video production blog the other day.  So, how can these phenomena possibly be related to a Thanksgiving dinner for a small group of family and friends?  …

We have already mentioned crowdsourcing but what about crowdfunding?  What is it and what does it do?  Well, in a nutshell, crowdfunding is a collective effort of people who collaborate over the Internet to gather financial resources to achieve a certain goal, such as producing a film or providing a disaster-relief fund.

Crowdfunding has been around for centuries if not millennia.  Communal fundraising, such as the one for Statue of Liberty’s pedestal, were just that—multiple people pitching in to gather money for a common objective.  Once again, the only real difference now is the use of Internet—before the gathering of …