For Winsor, crowdsourcing is a family affair

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You have to hand it to John Winsor, former Crispin exec and founder of Victors & Spoils. He really walks the walk when it comes to his belief in the power of crowdsourcing. His 8-year-old son Harry recently started doodling airplanes, and decided to send a rather crude design of a firefighting plane to Boeing—which responded with some legalese that it doesn't accept unsolicited ideas. Winsor the Elder quickly took the issue to his blog, where it was seized on as a potential conference case study by the Twittering class.

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