Crowdsourcing Solutions to Prepare Our Communities
document Distributed KnowledgeThe best, most unique idea will be selected and highlighted on FEMA’s website.
Cristina CaineNov 08, 2010 07:00 pm GMT2471 views
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The best, most unique idea will be selected and highlighted on FEMA’s website.
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Crowdsource and Open source may sound similar but they should be treated differently because they differ in many ways.
Crowdsourcing continues to gain momentum in the private sector. From Microsoft’s Imagine CupLego’s Mindstorms and from GE’s $200m Ecoimagination Challenge to Sony’s Open Planet Ideas, we’ve seen countless examples of cost-efficient, time saving, and high yield crowdsourcing implementations. While crowdsourcing has gained traction in the private sector as a great vehicle for innovation and customer engagement, it is interesting to observe how the public sector is embracing crowdsourcing as an economically effective vehicle for engaging their constituents.
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Great article on why crowdsourcing using groups of like-minded people can bring you great results if you give them the right tools to do it.
VizEdu co-founder, Sandeep Arora, defines crowdsourcing as the name of a social web trend in which users help companies to design products, create content, improve services, even help in marketing...
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Having been a part of the 3six5 Project, author Victoria Harres provides the 5 key elements of community management and crowdsourcing: 1. Responsibility 2. Tight deadlines 3. Credit 4. Clear...
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Reasons from the failure of crowdsourcing-platform of CrowdSpirit. *CrowdSpirit engagement platforms produced an abundance of ideas but no real co-creation processes. *Lacking of community...
Social media marketing campaign, when properly executed can and should be something far more than these passive examples.
The product of crowdsourcing can be quantified in different ways - ideas converted into competitive advantage, more affordable labor driving operational savings, and meaningful engagement with employees, fans or customers to increase brand loyalty are just some examples. Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Richard Spiegel, CEO of CrowdTogether, a newly launched crowdsourcing platform to see if it could really deliver across multiple dimensions of the crowdsourcing value proposition.
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Author Amy Sample Ward says there are two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by...
There are a few instances when crowdsourcing just isn’t a fit and these are as follows: You need things to be very specific or follow tight criteria You are working very quickly or flexibly...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
