Your official guide to Getting Crowd Sourced and Crowd funded for Innovation:
What is buzz about crowd sourcing?:
“The phenomenon of corporations creating goods, services and experiences in close cooperation with experienced and creative consumers, tapping into their intellectual capital, and in exchange giving them a direct say in (and rewarding them for) what actually gets produced, manufactured, developed, designed, serviced, or processed.”
How can you or your organization get involved and how can social media help?
Crowd Sourcing Applications, Tools, and Resources |
What are the best crowdsourcing websites and tools? Here are some great ones I’ve run across:
• Kiva
• Gog Me
• Cool Town Studios and Beta Communities
• Kluster and Crowdspirit
• Crowd sourcing art and museum exhibits
• Crowd sourcing restaurants (props to the Affinity Labs, the coworking space in located in Adams Morgan in Washington DC and Harvey Rheingold)
A Range of Social Media Guides to Crowdsourcing:
• A great article at Read/Write Web on Crowdsourcing Case Studies and Examples
• Read about the Rise of Crowdsourcing in Wired Magazine Online.
This video presentation, including Jeff Howe, who coined the term crowd sourcing, including references to Threadless and Predictify. (warning: the video has some crowd created graffiti for lack of a better term) Jeff is followed by the CEO of Predictify. Predictify is an ingenious form of crowd sourcing and market data gathering (like fantasy football for predictions). You can even predict your own private prediction center that is customized for more targeted crowd sourcing (ie so called “partner pages” for Brittany Spears or Fidel Castro related questions). Predictify hopes to use the tool for engagement marketing, market research, business intelligence, and integrations with big media sites. For anyone who is a numbers geek or into psycho-graphic info, this platform is quite handy.
Of course, Yahoo Answers and Linked In Answers as well as Digg, Stumbleupon, and delicious are examples of web 2.0 platforms and companies which rely on the wisdom of the crowds. In addition, Google, Amazon, iStockphoto and Netflix embed various crowd sourcing mechanisms to deliver superior, targeted content.
Next, Future Memes has a great discussion of crowdsourcing lending.
Finally, the OJC has a feature on crowd sourcing for journalists, which seems to gloss over many of the important parts of crowd sourcing.
Whats your favorite crowd sourcing website? What would be a cool application for crowd sourcing?
Wisdom of the Crowds and Crowd Sourcing Books, Companies, Websites and all Around Bibliography:
• The best crowd sourcing resource I’ve found at BNET
• Crowdsourcing Directory
• Spot.Us for citizen journalism and crowd sourcing news
• Crowd Spring (Crowd sourcing creative, logo, and web design) CEO Interview by Frank Gruber
• Wisdom of the Crowds by James Surowieki
• How to Plan and Design a Crowd sourcing Website
• Crowd sourcing video production with Media mobz (thanks to JD Lasica and Zadi Diaz at Epic Fu)
• Employee recommendations and internal communication (idea management) via Employee Suggestion Box (thanks to Jeremiah Owyang)
• See also Google Map Maker
• Great analysis of prediction markets + wisdom of crowds. Cool stuff.
16 responses so far ↓
Stanford Business School’s BJ Fogg on Social Networking, Social Media, and Crowdsourcing « Nashville Social Media Marketing and Ethical SEO Company // November 13, 2008 at 11:14 pm |
[...] Crowd sourcing represents a massive democratization in the ways we think about companies and the products they offer the public. Instead of management thinking it knows best or hiring a 100K management consulting firm to come in, businesses can leverage social media and the wisdom of the crowds to learn more about their customer how they interact the product and ultimately how the product can better serve the customer and the social good. [...]
Five Top Social Media and Web Trends for 2009 « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Justice, Non-Profits, and Life Theology // November 16, 2008 at 9:59 pm |
[...] First, crowd sourcing will be a huge social media trend for 2009. Crowd souring has the potential to take off pretty big, although i don’t see the online movement in that direction. The launch of Predictify suggest such a conclusion. Also, Idea Blob has been fairly successful. There are a number of crowd sourcing creative (graphic design and video) that are bubbling to the surface beyond the e-lance model. This will only continue to increase as the need for outsourcing and budget cutting continues in 2009. (See also: Springwise and Top Crowd sourcing Resources, Websites, + Companies) [...]
imotion » Blog Archive » Top Seven Social Media, Online Marketing, and Internet Trends for 2009 // December 9, 2008 at 2:03 am |
[...] First, crowd sourcing will be a huge social media trend for 2009. Crowd souring has the potential to take off pretty big, although i don’t see the online movement in that direction. The launch of Predictify suggest such a conclusion. Also, Idea Blob has been fairly successful. There are a number of crowd sourcing creative (graphic design and video) that are bubbling to the surface beyond the e-lance model. This will only continue to increase as the need for outsourcing and budget cutting continues in 2009. The trend known as crowd funding may also see an upward and exciting trajectory. (See also: Springwise and Top Crowd sourcing Resources, Websites, + Companies) [...]
Top Seven Social Media, Online Marketing, and Internet Trends for 2009 « Meddela // December 15, 2008 at 7:44 pm |
[...] First, crowd sourcing will be a huge social media trend for 2009. Crowd souring has the potential to take off pretty big, although i don’t see the online movement in that direction. The launch of Predictify suggest such a conclusion. Also, Idea Blob has been fairly successful. There are a number of crowd sourcing creative (graphic design and video) that are bubbling to the surface beyond the e-lance model. This will only continue to increase as the need for outsourcing and budget cutting continues in 2009. The trend known as crowd funding may also see an upward and exciting trajectory. (See also: Springwise and Top Crowd sourcing Resources, Websites, + Companies) [...]
Top Crowd sourcing Resources Re-visited « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Profit Organizations, Social Justice, & Random Theology // January 5, 2009 at 4:10 am |
[...] Crowd Sourcing Resources: Guide to the top crowd sourcing resources and companies by yours [...]
Crowd sourcing Art @ Wired Online « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Profit Organizations, and Base of the Pyramid Design Solutions // March 6, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
[...] in Crowd sourcing? The artist is Aaron Koblin. Check out my post on Crowd sourcing resources. I **really** need to read “We Are Smarter than [...]
The Spec Work Design Debate at SXSW: Is Spec Work Evil? « Nashville SEO | Ethical SEO | Christian SEO and Social Media Agency // March 19, 2009 at 12:23 pm |
[...] more about crowd sourcing, companies in the crowd sourcing space, and resources about crowdsourcing check out the post at [...]
compassioninpolitics // March 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm |
I recommend checking out my other post on Crowd sourcing resources “Top Crowdsourcing Resources Revisited” as well as the B-Net resources list.
“Constructive Capitalism” Presentation by Umair Haque « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Profits, and Base of the Pyramid/BOP Design Solutions // March 30, 2009 at 6:54 pm |
[...] isn’t necessary, but a nice hat tip). Moreover, he fails to deal with the ethical issues in crowdsourcing that run counter to democracy (less employment and the risk of exploiting users as a form of [...]
Crowd sourcing: Business Innovation and Creativity « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Profits, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions // April 21, 2009 at 8:02 pm |
[...] the wisdom of the crowd to help make better decisions. There are several companies that are in the crowdsourcing for business [...]
DosCeroLife : Crowdsourcing // May 4, 2009 at 1:10 am |
[...] Otro link interesante que recopila bastante data. Enlaces relacionados Radicalismo 2.0 [...]
Best Buy on Crowdsourcing Trends and the ROI of Social Media « Nashville SEO | Ethical SEO | Christian SEO and Social Media Agency // May 27, 2009 at 6:41 am |
[...] more case studies on crowd sourcing, companies who crowd source, and crowd sourcing resources. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Stanford Business School’s BJ Fogg on [...]
compassioninpolitics // September 30, 2009 at 3:36 am |
This is worth pointing out: http://www.challengepost.com/
Its crowd sourcing for problems. Governments, non-profits, and entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies can create a challenge.
Its like the X-Prize.
Thanks to Jason Calicanis and This Week in Startups podcast.
Crowd Sourcing and Outsourcing Video Editing Solutions « Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Education Innovation, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions // October 8, 2009 at 3:02 pm |
[...] might call me a fan boy of the crowd sourcing phenomena. There are several options for crowd sourcing video. Increasingly as broadband speeds go [...]
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Response#8 Crowdsourcing vs. Groupthink OR Looking for 20% OR Why halfbackery.com gets it right « Media Indigest // November 11, 2009 at 5:31 pm |
[...] be the baromater for what any yahoo would do). I poked around the crowdsourcing directory and a few other listings for different types of crowdsourcing sites (both ones clearly with marketing in mind [...]