SHARE YOUR BRAIN

[Brendan O'Keefe]

I found this new brainstorming platform the other day and I'm really quite impressed. What do you all think of it?

We are a collaborative idea and online brainstorming platform that allows anyone to request solutions and contribute ideas across all types of industries and categories.
Use your brain to help others design things, solve problems, make stuff and put your ideas into action - and get rewarded!

You need some snazzy ideas for something. It could be anything, actually: A new logo, a classroom project, advertising campaign, banner ads, business idea, website design - anything!

The first thing you need to do is write down (or organize it in your head) a concise way to tell someone what you need. This nice description will inform users what you are looking for, what any special instructions are and how you want them to proceed.


What is Share Your Brain?

We like to think of Share Your Brain as similar to walking into a giant room of people and asking them to help come up with ideas for a design or request for which your business has a need.

For example, you could ask "What should my logo look like?" or "What kind of billboard campaign should we run?" The requests could be large, small, quick or long-running - it could be anything!

The resulting brainstorming and interaction between all those people - bouncing ideas off each other, adding and subtracting contributions from user to user, would create many new ideas, designs and innovative directions for you and your business.

And, it's not just a lump of random ideas either - since the community votes continually during the project, the best and most relevant ideas rise to the top.

And for our creative users, who generate the ideas, we have more than a few incentives. First, people who design, or think creatively do it because they enjoy it. Helping other people out with ideas and information, for many people, is satisfying in its own right - look at the success of Wikipedia and other collaborative ventures on the Internet.

But Share Your Brain offers more than altruism - Secondly, we have a reward system that allows contributing users to earn prizes and cash deposits through PayPal for their effort. Creative users can see their top-voted ideas earn them something other community kudos - although we try to support that as well.

Third, we also have an upcoming portfolio system where users can show off their ideas as well as future partnerships with online career sites so that users can use their time and effort to help self-promote and show-off their brains and skills.

Finally, it's fun! The process of collaboration with like-minded users and friends is itself fun.

So, we connect people that have similar skills and interests - and allow them to work together collaboratively towards a common goal: designing cool stuff, solving problems and working with brands big and small.

We also allow businesses (and individuals!) to tap the incredible amount of talent and teamwork in those people - people that they may not have the time, money or ability to coordinate and utilize.

It's distributed creativity!

How does Share Your Brain work?

If you need solutions or designs - create a request or "project" on which the entire user community can then help by brainstorming ideas, creating designs and helping to generate solutions that meet your guidelines. If you have the ideas - join a project and jump in by creating new ideas that help solve the problem or the design request.

These projects are like mini-contests - everyone gets to vote on the best solutions or designs for each project. When the project closes (usually a few weeks or a month,) everyone who participated in the winning idea gets rewarded with prizes and for Premium Members, cash.


Brendan