50 Ways to Crowdsource Everything. This is a blog post by Drea Knufken.
Image: Wayne Large/Flickr Want something done quickly and well? Sic the swarm on it. 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. Accommodation Image: Antony J Shepherd/Flickr 1. Advertising 2. 3. Zooppa is another site that crowdsources the creation of complete ad campaigns. Algorithms 4. Brainstorming Image: /Flickr5. 6. 7. Broadway Plays 8. Layer Tennis_Photoshop Battles.
-: Leading the Crowd. By Kurt Luther (Georgia Tech) Who tells the crowd what to do?
In the mid-2000s, when online collaboration was just beginning to attract mainstream attention, common explanations included phrases like “self-organization” and “the invisible hand.” These ideas, as Steven Weber has noted, served mainly as placeholders for more detailed, nuanced theories that had yet to be developed [6]. Fortunately, the last half-decade has filled many of these gaps with a wealth of empirical research looking at how online collaboration really works. One of the most compelling findings from this literature is the central importance of leadership. (from “The Wisdom of the Chaperones” by Chris Wilson, Slate, Feb. 22, 2008) Part of the answer, as with traditional organizations, includes new leadership roles.
This last point is a potent reminder: all leadership is hard, but leading online collaborations brings special challenges. DesignCrowd_Freelance Design Services. Wisdom of the crowd. The wisdom of the crowd is the collective opinion of a group of individuals rather than that of a single expert.
A large group's aggregated answers to questions involving quantity estimation, general world knowledge, and spatial reasoning has generally been found to be as good as, and often better than, the answer given by any of the individuals within the group. An explanation for this phenomenon is that there is idiosyncratic noise associated with each individual judgment, and taking the average over a large number of responses will go some way toward canceling the effect of this noise.[1] This process, while not new to the Information Age, has been pushed into the mainstream spotlight by social information sites such as Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, Quora, and other web resources that rely on human opinion.[2] Trial by jury can be understood as wisdom of the crowd, especially when compared to the alternative, trial by a judge, the single expert.
Classic examples[edit] Benefits[edit] Tongal_Media Crowdsourcing. Poptent: The trusted global source for creative video solutions. Crowdsourcing Design jobs. Crowdsourcing creative work. Crowdsourcing creative work (CCW) is an open call to the crowd for novel and useful solutions.
Crowdsourcing may be appropriate when experts are in scarce supply, multiple diverse ideas and/or contextual insights are needed. Infrastructure[edit] CCW may or may not be technologically enabled. Recent advances in technology have supported greater participation in and new types of crowdsourcing creative work. Advances may create new platforms that draw together participants, or enable new forms of coordination that allows multiple participants to contribute jointly to a creative task.
Domains[edit] Creative work spans creative domains such as graphic design, crowdsourcing architecture, apparel design, writing, illustration. Graphic design: DesignContestApparel design: ThreadlessFootwear/Sporting Goods:Writing: WikipediaIllustration: DesignContestInterior design:Architecture: ArcbazarVideo: Tongal, ZooppaFilm/TV:Music/sound design: NeedaJingle, Crowd StudioVoice Overs: History[edit]