Decision. Agency. Crowdsource. Crowdsourcing: 5 Reasons It's Not Just For Startups Any Mor. Next-generation enterprises looking to drive efficiency and innovation have recently been able to tap into online communities to offload work. For the first time since outsourcing became prevalent in the 90s -- making it easier to move tasks out to partners that could do something better or more cheaply than you could -- businesses now have a new, potent, and often far cheaper option thanks to the Web.
Frequently referred to as crowdsourcing, and a darling of the Web 2.0 industry, it has recently come of age as the tools and marketplaces for on-demand work capacity on the network have expanded far beyond the early volunteer communities that originally proved out the concepts. These pioneers, which include the world of open source software and online services such as YouTube and Threadless, get most of their value from a large group of people or community through the simple use of an open invitation.
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We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us! If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!) Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery. Convincing your executive team to use crowdsourcing shouldn’t take bribery. The Wisdom of the Crowd Resides in How the Crow.
Our presidential election was indeed historic, but not just for the reasons emblazoned in headlines throughout the world. It was also the most closely monitored election in U.S. history, as everyone from CNN to The Huffington Post to Harvard University asked people to document their voting experience and provide instant reports on problems at the polls. Thousands responded, sending in text messages, photographs, videos and even voice mails. The resulting data were aggregated and displayed—in real time—on maps, in charts, and over RSS feeds. All of this activity signaled a small but significant advance in the use of crowdsourcing as a new tool in digital journalism. While crowdsourcing, or citizen journalism, has been widely embraced by all manner of news operations over the past several years, its track record has been decidedly spotty.
I coined the word “crowdsourcing” in a Wired magazine article published in June 2006, though at that time I didn’t focus on its use in journalism. Best Books about Crowdsourcing » CrowdsourcingDirectory. Crowdsourcing Directory ★ The Revolutionary Power of Crowds. List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples - Best prac. Intermediary Platforms Research & Development platforms Innocentive – open innovation problem solvingIdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solvingYet2.com – IP market placePRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problemsHypios – online problem solvingInnoget – research intermediary platformOne Billion Minds – online (social) challengesNineSigma – technology problem solvingIdeaken – collaborative crowdsourcingInnovation-community.de – Community of innovators & creators.
Marketing, Design & Idea platforms Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms Lumenogic – collective intelligence marketsUshahidi – crowdsourcing crisis informationKaggle – data mining and forecastingWe Are Hunted – the online music chartGoogle Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling HR & Freelancers platforms TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcingSpudaroo – crowdsourcing copywritingClickworker – small online task solvingAmazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing Open innovation software 478Shares.
Crowdsourced or Collaborative-source? - Leading Questions. Grant McCracken posts an interesting dilemma for design professionals that is relevant to people in all types of professional services. At year’s end, I have an unhappy thought, that some of the creative professionals who rose to prominence in the first decade of the 21st century will be eclipsed by the end of the decade coming, that the first decade of the 21st century will be, for some creative professionals, a brief moment in the sun. Why is this? According to McCracken, it is a product of changes in the supply of able designers, the demand for design services by corporations, and the approach these companies take to utilize the supply of design talent available to them.
McCracken relates the following conversation. Recently, I was chatted with a friend. In essence, technology allows for more people to provide design services and for those purchasing them to do so at a lower cost. This is both the beauty and bain of crowdsourcing. McCracken suggests that designers consider the following. One of us is smarter than all of us. « My First ETech Comments | Main | Interaction vs. one-way communication » One of us is smarter than all of us You've heard the saying "none of us is as smart as all of us", and you've felt the pressure.
A group of individuals working together as a team can do better work, reach better decisions, etc. After all, two heads are better than one. Right? Given how much I can't stand (with a passion) that idea, I almost skipped the keynote talk by James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds. He started with a few thoughts on how ants (and so many other creatures) are quite simple and stupid, but that their intelligence and complexity grows with the number of interactions between them.
And that's all great and intuitive... until you get to humans. So how does this track with the name of his book? Where I had it wrong is that his book's premise (wisdom of crowds) comes with qualifiers. Which leads me to... my previous post where I talked about the missing women at ETech. TrackBack Comments. Have Prediction Markets arrived as an.
A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore the latest developments in collective intelligence and use of prediction markets. The conversation flow, diversity, and challenge to conventional thinking mirrored the forward looking sculptures in nearby Millenium Park. For those new to prediction markets finding a public prediction market to explore is increasingly easy, for example see the Industry Standard and CFO Magazine. The 2.0 Adoption Prediction Market made news at the recent San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Andrew McAfee lists prediction markets as part of Enterprise 2.0. This Inside Knowledge Prediction Markets Masterclass (co-authored with colleague Victoria Axelrod) describes the prediction market landscape in 2008.
Three reasons: 1. HP pioneered use of prediction markets with it's BRAIN project. 2. 3. What have I missed? ~ Jenny Ambrozek. LiveBlend.