Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
Web's Largest Directory of Sites2,362 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered with KL Communications to find out.
Using a tool called Netbase, which indexes and analyzes millions of conversations across the web, Crowdsourcing.org and KLC analyzed data for the top 15 sites generating the most buzz for each of the five main crowdsourcing categories in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. This report examines a year of data — timeframe: November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011 — garnered from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, news sites and consumer reviews.
As part of a recent collaboration with KL Communications, Crowdsourcing.org examined the five different kinds of crowdsourcing using sentiment analysis. This third report (in a six-article series) aims to determine how the world’s social media users feel about the 15 top Cloud Labor platforms.
Distributed Knowledge is the most discussed type of crowdsourcing, with the category’s top 15 platforms garnering nearly nine million social media mentions during the examined one-year timeframe. There’s a reason, after all, that the cocktail party definition of crowdsourcing is “Wikipedia, for everything.” Speaking of the community-authored encyclopedia, Wikipedia ranks highest in “absolute buzz” among Distributed Knowledge sites, racking up 2,216,124 total mentions. Social news aggregator Digg comes in a close second with 2,118,646 mentions, followed by social news site Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” which garnered 1,747,223 mentions. Discovery engine StumbleUpon and TomTom, a GPS navigation company that crowdsources map info, round out the top five with 1,247,871 and 476,283 mentions respectively.
We've already examined how the online public seems to feel about Crowdfunding, as well as Cloud Labor. Now, this week we're going to look at the data for Crowd Creativity platforms.
So far we've looked at how the crowd feels about the biggest Crowdfunding, Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity and Distributed Knowledge sites. Now, this week we're going to wrap up our series with a look at the last category in the Crowdsourcing taxonomy--Open Innovation.
In this interview, Kevin Lonnie gave a teaser on his “Crowdsourcing Your Research for Co-Creation” presentation at the IIR Tech Driven Market Research event: "The term “Crowdsourcing” is...
Ever tried funding a startup? I've been told that there is a 1 in 500 chance you will succeed (once you've developed a great idea). With this in mind I started looking for funding for MaxClass - a new private social network for education. After we had started development in April 2010 using our own money, we knew we could last a bit longer than a year. As I think I'm at least a bit smarter than the average entrepreneur (we all do I'm sure), I told myself that good pitch and about 100 meetings should do the trick. We did after all have a brilliant idea.
A look at which of the many crowdfunding platforms are the most talked about online, and how positive the social media buzz is...
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.
