Top Crowd sourcing Resources Re-visited
The Best Crowd sourcing Companies and Resources Redux: Examples for Case Studies, Innovation, and Research
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Jeff Howe author of Crowd sourcing explains the trend toward crowd sourcing:
I’ve been reading Richard J. Goossen’s, “E-preneur: From Wall Street to Wiki Succeeding as a Crowd preneur in the New Virtual Marketplace.” So I thought I would revisit the topic of crowd sourcing resources and make this handy dandy crowd sourcing directory:
Crowd sourcing answers: Linked in Answers, Yahoo Answers, and Predictify as well as Wikis and forums.
Crowd sourcing blog content: Skribit
Crowd sourcing customer relations-
Crowd sourcing consulting- 100 Wise Men
Crowd sourcing content development (news)
Crowd sourcing design and creative- Crowd Spring and 99 designs (see also iStockphoto, Stock Xchange, Threadless)
Crowd sourcing education- Teach the People
Crowd sourcing innovation, idea generation, and creative- Crowd Voice (see also Dell Idea Storm and My Starbucks Idea) More fanatic crowd sourcing examples and case studies. Spigit is a new addition to the crowd sourcing innovation space.
Crowd sourcing journalism-Spot Us and Assignment Zero and the best social news sites and citizen journalist websites (??????)
Crowd sourcing marketing-
Crowd sourcing medical advice: Patients Like Me
Crowd sourcing music: Minimum Noise and Sellaband
Crowd sourcing news: see also journalism
Crowd sourcing non-profit fund raising: Kiva and Chip In (and I believe the Facebook Causes application–although this may just be crowd funding)
Crowd sourcing photography, art, and design: iStockphoto (see also Stockexchange and 99designs innovation)
Crowd sourcing product reviews
Crowd sourcing public relations
Crowd sourcing science and scientific research: see also innovation
Crowd sourcing software and application development: Cambrian House
Crowd sourcing style (or at least t-shirts): Threadless
Crowd sourcing supply chain-
Crowd sourcing work-
Crowd sourcing writing-
Other Crowd Sourcing Resources:
Guide to the top crowd sourcing resources and companies by yours truly
Crowd sourcing guide by BNET
It bears repeating: Crowd sourcing examples
Crowdsourced Workforce Guide from Josh Catone of Read Write Web
We are Smarter than Me by Barry Libert (We are Smarter than Me is also available for free on Google books)
A quick assessment of Crowd sourcing Journalism via Powerpoint
Would Design by Humans or springleap.com be examples of crowdsourcing?
Nice list – please take a look at our crowdsourcing website, and if you think it’s appropriate, add to the list
Very useful list – thanks for posting these resources!
Howdy,
Thanks for reading.
Jeff Howe who coined the term “crowdsourcing” and wrote “Crowdsourcing” just presented at Berkman Center at Harvard University.
His presentation is about an hour long and is available in audio or video. I recommend the audio, because I had trouble streaming the video continuously.
He discussed the recent “spec design debate” that took place at South By Southwest (SXSW) earlier this year, which referenced crowd sourcing logo design sites and Howe pointed to a divide between new designers who were searching for work who seemed to like the option of being able to find spec work and those who are established in the industry and greatly disliked the practice. Its certainly a debate that will occur again and again in different contexts as Crowd sourcing goes mainstream as is adopted by new industries.
Enjoy,
Nathan
I suggest checking out User Voice as a fantastic example of crowd sourcing:
https://uservoice.com/
User Voice has tons of users across the spectrum of business and government and offers a variety of pricing, including a free version.
Its competitors are Sales Force Ideas, Spigit, Crowdsound, and Suggestion Box. Get Satisfaction is related as well. Or you may want to look at this post: http://www.web2review.com/site/3866-User-Voice/competitors/ or the profile at Venture Beat Profiles which points out User Voice competitors:
http://www.web2review.com/site/3866-User-Voice/competitors/
However, realistically its a fantastic solution for most start ups, small businesses, and even enterprise (according to even Jeremiah Owyang, Random House, MTV, and others). This interview with one of the founders is fantastic: http://mixergy.com/guerilla-twitter/
Here’s a recent article from Entrepreneur magazine which mentions 7 ways to use crowdsourcing in your business:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217744
Usability Testing (uTest), Images (Flickr), Leads (Lead Vine), Logo Design (Crowdspring), Naming (Name Force), Feedback Collection (user voice)
Crowdsourced content, editing, translation, and PR (public relations releases as soon to be available as a service):
http://www.serv.io/
Service providers sign up here:
http://www.cloudcrowd.com/
Chaodix is an crowdsourcing market research:
http://www.chaordix.com/
Crowdsortium is an association for best practices in crowdsourcing:
http://www.crowdsortium.org/