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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: NewsCaster on Jun 09, 2010, 09:01 PM

Title: Crowd Sourcing A Resolution for the Gulf of Mexico
Post by: NewsCaster on Jun 09, 2010, 09:01 PM
At 11:00  PM EST, on Tuesday April 20, 2010 off the Gulf of Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico) 11 workers died when British Petroleum's (http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055&nicam=USCSBaselineCrisis&nisrc=Google&nigrp=Branded_Crisis_Management-_General&niadv=General&nipkw=british_petroleum) Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. The explosion which occurred 52 miles southeast of the Louisiana port of Venice unleashed an oil spill that remains unconstrained.
In times of crisis, speed is everything; nothing is faster than crowd-sourced 2.0 problem-solving. Yet BP seems committed to problem-solving the 1.0 way.

>Crowd Sourcing A Resolution for the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ramon-nuez/crowd-sourcing-a-resoluti_b_606341.html)