Mashable. You don't need to be a '90s-bred Bill Nye fan to know science rules. Just look at the state of the Internet in 2014 — we f*cking love that sh*t. Now, thanks to an outpouring of crowdsourcing calls from scientists and universities across the world, "citizen scientists" — like you, me and our Ph.D. -challenged friends — can brainstorm and partake in the grunt work for big-scale scientific research. It's a win-win way to help out and get introduced to some of the top researchers in the biz.
For years, scientists from a variety of fields have crowdsourced help from the public: retirees to advocates to former cheerleaders to inmates. So what is a citizen scientist? It's a good question, with a fairly open-ended answer. So then I get involved how ...? Through the power of the Internet, obviously. One of the biggest online ci-sci communities, the Citizen Science Alliance (CSA), officially started in 2009. The response from the public was much more enthusiastic than he expected. Image: TheDrCK. Crowdsourcing to be available on YouTube - PCGMedia. Are you recording your video game session and putting the clip up on YouTube? If you do, and if the people watching your clips really like them, they can eventually donate money to you.
YouTube have announced that they will include a feature “that allows fans to fund their favorite creators on YouTube”. YouTube has over the years been performing a “global satisfaction survey” to ask the community what they think could be better with the worlds’ biggest video sharing website. In the most recent survey, people asked if YouTube could keep them better informed about what’s happening at the company,”Your wish is our command”.
In a couple of months, people will be able to donate money to their favorite YouTubers, making it easier to fund great people on YouTube. YouTube announced on their official creator-blog that they will be including several new features in the future. Dassault Systemes: Taking Crowd Sourcing to Next Level. With crowd-sourcing becoming more and more prevalent in an effort to capitalize on collective intelligence, it’s no surprise that Dassault Systemès recently announced the creation of a military vehicle created entirely from crowd-sourcing. The article, DARPA, Dassault and Local Motors Crowdsource New Military Vehicle, on MCADCafe, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) joined with 3D Project Lifecycle Management experts, Dassault Systemès to bring this ingenious idea to the world market of engineers and vehicle enthusiasts.
It was simple really. The U.S. military needed a vehicle that was built for Combat Reconnaissance and Combat Delivery & Evacuation. Dassault Systemès is pretty fascinating, but they don’t do it alone. The landscape of digital data is changing and we like where it is going. Catherine Lamsfuss, August 17, 2011 Sponsored by Pandia.com, publishers of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search Comments. The wisdom of crowdsourcing? The Huffington Post’s ‘lighthearted’ call for logos provokes designers There have been many stories in recent years concerning the rise of ‘crowdsourced’ design(see ‘Volkssport Design’ in Eye 74), writes Alexander Ecob.
The UK Government caused uproar within the design community in March when it launched StartUp Britain, a website aimed at helping new businesses get the information they need – only to suggest that businesses go to crowdsourcing websites to ‘get a logo done’. The latest furore has been caused by the HuffPost Politics Icon Competition, which called for readers ‘who know [their] way around Photoshop’ to send in submissions for a logo in return for a credit on the website. HP’s call for submissions prompted tongue-in-cheek responses from commenters Matthew Oden (above) and Chris Violette (aka Pixleight) (top). Yet Huffington Post (in common with many blogs) features articles aggregated from other sites and newspapers, or provided for free by its regular bloggers. Should Government Crowdsourcing Websites be Developed In-House? For the last few years, new e-government technologies have given citizens online platforms to express their opinions and ideas for government without having to attend public meetings.
But how should these interactive websites be developed? Some city governments, for example, are outsourcing these opinion websites to third-party vendors, while other municipal governments have decided instead to develop and monitor their crowdsourcing sites internally. While there seems to be no right or wrong method, cities are finding that these differing approaches yield different benefits. Nearly a week ago, Kansas City, Mo., launched KCMOmentum through a third-party vendor.
Kcmomentum.com allows residents to create accounts and submit ideas on how to improve the city. Through the interactive site, users can give feedback on ideas submitted from other users and “second” those ideas to earn points for prizes. The city selected Omaha, Neb. Not every city looks to vendors to develop crowdsourcing sites. 5 Tips for Crowdsourcing Your Next Marketing Campaign.
Those who came of age during the social media revolution may take it for granted that you, the consumer, are often called upon to be an active participant in your favorite brand’s marketing. But it wasn’t always this way. Until very recently, marketing was a one-way conversation. That’s how advertising always worked. Can you picture Don Draper saying, “Let’s just have consumers come up with the next campaign”?
Of course, a lot has changed since 1965. Technology now lets you do your job from home or wherever you happen to be. Clients, aware that ad agencies can now cut their overhead, are pushing the shops to do more with less. Victors & Spoils employs 17 people full time, but has relationships with 6,500 people who are on call for advertising work of one kind or another. Those who carry out crowdsourcing campaigns, though, don’t draw a great distinction. 1. Setting clear guidelines in a brief will also help you avoid a disastrous situation in which consumers are trashing your brand. 2.
4 Crowdsourcing Sites For Cheap Small Tasks. You're here: AIM Home » Internet Marketing » 4 Crowdsourcing Sites For Cheap Small Tasks Crowdsourcing sites make you life as an Internet marker a lot easier. It means you can concentrate on your marketing efforts, while other small tasks are done for cheap by someone else. Crowdsourcing simply means having a large number of people perform one small task for you. In Internet marketing there are a few little known treasures that allow you to save hundreds of dollars a month in outsourcing costs.
The members of these crowdsourcing sites make a little bit of money by completing simple tasks. They often use some kind of software to speed up tasks at hand, but they’re still very cheap. On the other hand, if you’re into making some extra money, you can easily become a member and earn a little extra income working from your home. Below are listed 4 of the best crowdsourcing sites. I find that many seasoned internet marketers are not that familiar with sites like these. Tweet has 6 responses. Advancing the Curated Crowdsourcing Model: EnglishMajor.com. Pros, Cons of Crowdsourcing Like Threadless. Threadless has, of course, built its burgeoning empire on what used to just be a buzzword: crowdsourcing. And as anyone who's been around any number of years on this earth knows, what has worked once for someone else isn't a guarantee of success if the same steps are taken again by someone else. After all, it's old news.
But that doesn't mean crowdsourcing is over and done with, necessarily. In a recent BusinessWeek point-counterpoint, crowdsourcing's potential is broken down into pros and cons. For example: In 2006, GM had a contest to let people mash-up Chevy Tahoe ads. On the upside, the piece points out, in this digital age, "crowdsourcing helps a company tap into an outside base of knowledge, overcome the in-company bias and technical specificity of the field, and get results. " Read the full debate over at BusinessWeek. Copyright NBC Owned Television Stations. Lessons in Curated Crowdsourcing: The YouTube Movie, Google News, and More.
In 2006, when Jeff Howe hailed “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” the phenomenon was unfamiliar even to his Wired audience. Five years later, “crowdsourcing” is an overused buzzword and websites are swarming with free content. To restrain the masses, many of them are applying filters: it’s the rise of curated crowdsourcing.
Released in theatres in July, the YouTube-National Geographic documentary Life in a Day is curated crowdsourcing on a grand scale: about 1,000 clips were chosen from 80,000 submissions from 192 countries to chronicle one day on Earth. YouTube is also packaging videos for the media: YouTube Trends “aggregate[es] the wisdom of top curators across the web” with posts like 4 at 4—the four hottest videos released at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. and available by email—and CitizenTube, which focuses on news. Companies can solicit YouTube videos as part of their own curated crowdsourcing, from contests like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Rulemaking Matters!
Raise Your Crowdsourcing IQ. Successful Entrepreneur Crowdsourcing His Decision to go to Harvard Business School & You Can Vote. The Dos And Don’ts Of Facebook Crowdsourcing. Your brand’s Facebook page can be a great resource to garner ideas, creativity, and feedback from your fans — if it’s done correctly. Crowdsourcing encompasses the idea of outsourcing tasks to the community through an open call — in most cases, it describes a call for creative input to collaboratively reach a goal, and usually this happens via social media. This tactic can cut through the noise and build meaningful connections with your consumers or community. So how do businesses apply crowdsourcing to their Facebook strategy? What are the best practices of creating Facebook contests, polls, and surveys to engage fans? Here are some dos and don’ts. Do set boundaries. You want your contests to be an open forum for your customers and fans to share with you, but you need to set guidelines to keep that engagement productive and appropriate.
Don’t create irrelevant contests. Do use a seasonal spin. Don’t push your products or service. Do know where to draw the line with open engagement. London riots: results of our crowdsourcing experiment | News. On Sunday, we began asking Guardian users what they'd seen in Tottenham on Saturday night, and why they thought the vigil held for Mark Duggan escalated into rioting and looting. This work has been used to complement and feed into work done by our reporters on the ground, but below we've shared a few of the more interesting responses received so far.
We have made every effort to include only those responses which are consistent with details gathered from reporting, but it should be noted that due to the nature of our survey these cannot be taken as verified, and should be treated with caution. Names have not been included. A new survey reworked to include the events of last night will be live on the site shortly. One user who said he'd witnessed but not participated in Saturday's riots said the riots were caused by: Cultural divide, with anger towards the police.
I don't believe much of this has to do with Mark Duggan and is more about the "yob culture" in Tottenham. More open data. How To Exploit The Power Of Crowds - Social Business - Marketing - Crowd Factory CEO Sanjay Dholakia explains how to apply and measure social interactions across all marketing channels. Slideshow: 10 Crowdsourcing Success Stories (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Crowd Factory already has marquee customers like HBO, Microsoft, and Sony Music to point to in support of its social marketing platform. Now all CEO Sanjay Dholakia has to do is figure out how to explain how his company is different from every other vendor promising to unlock social media riches.
Previously the Chief Marketing Officer at Lithium Technologies, with a history as a consultant at Accenture and McKinsey & Co., Dholakia joined Crowd Factory a little more than a year ago, attracted by the potential of its technology to help marketers promote their companies more easily and track the results of promotions in social media. -- The public social networks themselves, Facebook and its competitors. -- Social media management, including publishing tools like HootSuite. 1 of 2. Steps to a New Democracy. Crowdsourcing Solutions Instead of Polling Opinions. 25 Great Ways Colleges Are Using Crowdsourcing | IdeaScale Blog. What is Crowdsourcing? How to use crowdsourcing and an iPhone photo app to create a new music video.
If you ever had to think up of the ways to make a music video, using iPhone apps wouldn't be the first thing to come to mind. Yet a UK band have thought just that and have decided to do something different for their next music video. The Vaccines, a London-based indie rock band, have decided to create the video for their new single, ‘Wetsuits' by using crowdsourcing as their method. They're asking their fans to take photos of any music festivals they attend (or have attended) using Instagr.am and upload them to a special site to be used in their new music video. Fans can tag their selected photos using the hashtag #vaccinesvideo, where they would then be. All photos that are sent are published on an online gallery which is updated regularly and the selected photos will be combined to create an animated photo video.
Asking the Crowd How to Make Something. A dustpan called the Broom Groomer and the XC2V FLYPmode combat vehicle have something in common: both were created with the help of crowdsourcing, in which a community of people unite online to contribute anything from color recommendations to engineering designs. Crowdsourcing has been around for nearly five years, mostly as a way for Web-savvy marketing departments to solicit design ideas and build online buzz around a product.
But it also has promise as a way to inject fresh ideas into traditional manufacturing, speed up production cycles, and cut costs. Case in point: the XC2V FLYPmode, the first crowdsourced military vehicle. Last fall, Local Motors, an Arizona-based automotive company specializing in crowdsourced vehicles, won a $639,000 contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a prototype of a high-speed supply vehicle for the military.