by ginger | Feb 13, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Because of the amazing ways in which our Mark2Curators have contributed, we’re now approaching the end of the beta experiment. Since our last post on Tuesday, we’ve gone from 56% completion to ~80% completion of the beta experiment. THANK YOU,...
by ginger | Feb 10, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Mark2Curators have been busy! Over the weekend, our volunteers brought the current beta experiment from about 28% completion to over 50% completion. We’ve gotten excellent feedback from you and are working to improve on the issues and suggestions you’ve...
by ginger | Feb 6, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Our beta experiment is now 28% complete thanks to all of you. If you haven’t joined the beta experiment, please join now! We could really use your help to finish this experiment. If you’re hesitant because you don’t have a science background, take...
by ginger | Feb 3, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science, press
The San Diego Union Tribune did a nice little article on Mark2Cure, which helped us reach a lot of local citizen scientist volunteers. If you missed the article, you can read it here. If you joined Mark2Cure because of the UT San Diego, THANK YOU, and please help...
by ginger | Jan 27, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
I used SavingCase’s tweet because it highlights how important the internet has become for connecting people and how people share information. (I might have missed Susannah’s piece if not for that tweet.) That patient-patient connection is number three in a...
by ginger | Jan 23, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Did you know that a new biomedical research article is published every 30 seconds?! It’s become impossible for researchers to read every paper relevant to their field of research. Mark2Cure allows citizen scientists to help biomedical researchers make research...