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http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/best-examples-of-crowdsourcing-companies/ 3) the various employment/jobs marketplaces have obviously filled a niche (Elance, Odesk, and Guru…and the higher end candidate thats taking on Guru) 9) Mobile applications like Ushahidi & Txt Eagle & aggregators of agricultural prices for farmers in the developing world. ( More examples at Mobile Active: http://www.mobileactive.org/ ) 11) Trada is a new model….i’m curious if it can be tried in other industries…perhaps the stock market (or maybe thats already been done). In a sense its crowd intelligence + platform (assuming other analytics tools) as a service. 15) Angel List is blowing up.

Best Examples of Crowd Sourcing Companies « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Education Innovation, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions

Audiences at the Gate: Reinventing Arts Philanthropy Through Guided Crowdsourcing | Createquity.

http://createquity.com/2011/02/audiences-at-the-gate-reinventing-arts-philanthropy-through-guided-crowdsourcing.html Spurred on by major technological advances, the number of aspiring professional artists in the United States has reached unprecedented levels and will only continue to grow. The arts’ current system of philanthropic support is woefully underequipped to evaluate this explosion of content and nurture its most promising elements—but we believe that the solution to the crisis is sitting right in front of us. Philanthropic institutions, in their efforts to provide stewardship to a thriving arts community, have largely overlooked perhaps the single most valuable resource at their disposal: audience members.
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2011 "Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape" [INFOGRAPHIC] - Crowdsourcing.org

We have also included a selection of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding tools that support collaboration, communication and sharing amongst distributed groups of people. All sites are listed in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory of Sites (see sites main menu) where you are able to click-through and read detailed information on each site. Description [INFOGRAPHIC UPDATED 23 May 2011] We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape. This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects.

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Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing

Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Story Tools Story Images http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html
The crowd is ready to work. So who’s hiring? Companies in a wide array of industries are devising ways to harness the intelligence and creativity of distributed labor. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/look.html

Wired 14.06: Look Who's Crowdsourcing

Earlier this week I spoke with the people behind Guerra Creativa , an interesting Latin American crowdsourcing community for design services. I learned why it is a creative community more than a contest website, that logo contests are proven to be most successful, and that the community is growing fast with more than 3.400 creatives now. What prompted the idea behind Guerra Creativa? What’s your vision? The idea of creating a company like Guerra Creativa came to us when we realized that thousands of companies are getting started in business, needing to create their logos and websites, but not all of them can afford renowned design studios. We believe in crowdsourcing and that’s why we started Guerra Creativa. http://www.openinnovators.net/category/corporate-crowdsourcing-co-creation/

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http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/ 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.

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How to Run a Successful Crowdsourcing Project | iRevolution

http://irevolution.net/2010/05/05/towards-a-model-for-successful-crowdsourcing/ My colleague Ankit Sharma at the London School of Economics ( LSE ) recently sent me his research paper entitled “Crowdsourcing Critical Success Factor Model” ( PDF ). It’s definitely worth a read. Ankit is interested in better understanding the “dynamic and innovative discipline of crowdsourcing by developing a critical success factor model for it.” He focuses specifically on mobile crowdsourcing and does a great job unpacking the term.

Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - The Industry Website

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Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production process that involves outsourcing tasks to a network of people, also known as the crowd. This process can occur both online and offline. [ 1 ] The difference between crowdsourcing and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific other body. Crowdsourcing is related to, but not the same as, human-based computation , which refers to the ways in which humans and computers can work together to solve problems.

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50 Ways to Crowdsource Everything | Business Pundit

Crowdsourcing, which involves a community of anonymous people completing a given task, has become an attractive labor model. Everyone’s seeking it out, from solopreneurs needing transcriptions to Fortune 500 companies looking for answers to complex scientific problems. Here are 50 ways to crowdsource just about everything you can think of. Image: Antony J Shepherd /Flickr 1. While hotels offer predictable accommodations and quality, sometimes you need something different.
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le crowdsourcing (en français, externalisation ouverte ) est un des domaines émergents du management de la connaissance : c'est le fait d'utiliser la créativité , l' intelligence et le savoir-faire d'un grand nombre de personnes (des internautes en général), en sous-traitance , pour réaliser certaines tâches traditionnellement effectuées par un employé ou un entrepreneur . Ceci se fait par un appel ciblé (quand un niveau minimal d'expertise est nécessaire) ou par un appel ouvert à d'autres acteurs.

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User-generated content (UGC) covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005, having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications, including problem processing, news , gossip and research , reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video , blogging , podcasting , forums, review-sites, social networking, mobile phone photography and wikis . In addition to these technologies, user-generated content may also employ a combination of open source , free software , and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration , skill-building and discovery . Sometimes UGC can constitute only a portion of a website.

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