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. Related: Crowdsourcing is one of 18 key topics for IT and business leaders this year.
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Ideavibes™ - The crowd is speaking. Are you listening? InnovationTools.com: The world's largest and most trusted innovation website Crowdsourcing 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! 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. The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Social Media in Program Delivery Crowd vs Community What do you think?
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. All of this activity signaled a small but significant advance in the use of crowdsourcing as a new tool in digital journalism. 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. That quickly changed. With these events, the news media’s primary contribution was to provide the dependable Web forum on which people gathered to distribute information. At Wired, we were no less susceptible to the zeitgeist. Assignment Zero’s Formula What had we done wrong?