crowdsourcing
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
questions
decision
agency
crowdsource
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.
Crowdsourcing: 5 Reasons It's Not Just For Startups Any Mor
Imaginatik - Idea Management, Innovation Management software, Op
Imaginatik has partnered with innovation guru Rowan Gibson, author of Innovation to the Core, to bring you Discovery Suite™ – a game-changing innovation platform. We combine the tools and know-how to drive your innovation initiatives to greatness — strategic planning, idea collection and vetting, business case creation, all the way to measurement of breakthrough business results.
The blowback from President Obama's interactive town hall has been intense and widespread . In dismissing a legitimate policy issue the President seems to have shown an uncharacteristic degree of political tone deafness. There are many excellent reasons to rethink the War on Drugs—that most ill-fated of American conflagrations, and mostly bad ones for staying the course. Many in Obama's base felt betrayed by the brush off.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe - Hardcover - Random House
"An engaging mix of business, sociology, organizational theory, and technology writing and fits the mold of Malcolm Gladwell’s perennial bestseller, The Tipping Point ." — Newsweek “While small groups have often been the foundation of great performance—think SWAT teams and Skunk Works—Jeff Howe has made the compelling case for the power of far larger communities of interest. He shows in Crowdsourcing —with rich illustrations from Google and InnoCentive to Threadless and Wikipedia—that the right community with the right incentives can often invent, write, and run research and business initiatives more effectively and less expensively than traditional enterprise.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Leadership Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Go Point: When It’s Time to Decide and The Leadership Moment
blur Group: The world's #1 Creative Services Exchange Changing how business buys design, marketing campaigns, content, original artwork, innovation and creativity and how creatives and agencies deliver new projects.
blur Group - Crowdsourcing Creatives
In the last quarter of 2011, massolution, the research and advisory arm of Crowdsourcing.org, conducted a major research study on patterns and trends in crowdsourcing. blur Group has talked about how it’s seeing increasing size, value and complexity of the projects that are briefed on the Creative Services Exchange, but the research which surveyed 32 [...]
blur Group - Reinventing tomorrow, today.
Kooky Plan: the wiki for entrepreneurs / crowd sourcing
Table of Contents a method for using the public, typically via the Internet, to supply creative content (or even funding!), with special applications in information services, research and development, T-shirt designs, stock photos, advertising spots.
Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd « Amy Sample Ward’s Version of
I’m really excited and honored to be speaking today at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, on a panel with Beth Kanter, Dave Neff, Holly Ross and Kari Saratovsky. 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!)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. In theory, crowdsourcing offers outlets like newspapers and newscasts and Web sites an opportunity to improve their reporting, bind their audiences closer to their brands, and reduce newsroom overhead. In reality, relying on readers to produce news content has proved to be a nettlesome—and costly—practice. 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.
Nieman Reports | The Wisdom of the Crowd Resides in How the Crow
Best Books about Crowdsourcing » CrowdsourcingDirectory
Below we list the books we think are essential for obtaining the wisdom of crowds(ourcing). These in our eyes the best books about crowdsourcing and related topics. Happy reading (and let us know what you think)!
The original Galaxy Zoo was launched in July 2007, with a data set made up of a million galaxies imaged with the robotic telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . With so many galaxies, the team thought that it might take at least two years for visitors to the site to work through them all. Within 24 hours of launch, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour, and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, from almost 150,000 people. Many projects are now underway using this data; you can read about the first few in our list of papers published and in progress , on the Galaxy Zoo blog and below.
Crowdsourcing Directory ★ The Revolutionary Power of Crowds
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?Creating Passionate Users: 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?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 market s. 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.