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CrowdSource is the exclusive provider of the Scalable Workforce platform, which is designed to enhance Amazons Mechanical Turk with features to better manage work and the workforce. From providing...
Crowdsourcing.org recently gathered a team of industry practitioners and experts, including taxonomy and categorization professionals, with the view of redefining the crowdsourcing industry taxonomy, using a number of existing views as reference points.
The results of this endeavor was the definition of seven top level categories that represent the different functional applications of crowdsourcing.
The Crowdsourcing Industry Taxonomy by Crowdsourcing.org identifies seven primary categories of crowdsourcing. This document, available for download, provides the definition and description of each...
The Crowdsourcing Industry Taxonomy (V2) is the result of primary research, facilitated by Crowdsourcing.org, involving a team of expert volunteers. The team identified seven distinguishably unique categories of crowdsourcing. These top level categories are: Open Innovation, Community Building, Collective Creativity, Civic Engagement, Collective Knowledge, Crowdfunding and Cloud Labor.
[INFOGRAPHIC UPDATED 23 May 2011] We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape. This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects....
We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape. This year's Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects. We have selected what we consider to be the best examples of crowdsourcing initiatives for each of the seven top-level industry categories.
Here is the final December 2011 “Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape” Infographic available for download, re-formatted as a printable version. [DOWNLOAD VERSION] In addition to updated site...
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Here is the final December 2011 “Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape” Infographic available for download, re-formatted as a printable version.
In addition to updated site listings, this new version contains a number of important changes that reflect the current views of our research and editorial teams and input from our viewers. The previous taxonomy identified seven applications of crowdsourcing as well as a ‘Tools’ category — eight in total. After a period of considerable review, we’ve settled on six main categories of crowdsourcing.
Top Crowdsourcing websites: 1. Wikipedia. World’s crowd-based encyclopedia. A classic. 2. Threadless. Tshirts designs. Upload your Tshirt designs and sell them to the crowd. 3. Waze....
As with any emerging industry, new business models form, technology plays a different role and traditional organizational structures are challenged. As new models for online production and problem solving have proliferated over the last few years, Crowdsourcing platforms as we now collectively define them, we need to be able to organize, compare and contrast the different forms.
Crowdsourcing.org is in the process of updating our popular Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape and we will be releasing it soon. We are re-designing the format, making it larger so we can display more companies in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industry. We will be displaying the sites based on our new crowdsourcing categories (see here for details) and in the category that best represents the sites primary mission.
One important thing CrowdFlower brings to the party today is that they’re the organizers behind the biggest crowdsourcing gathering around: CrowdConf, to be held Nov. 1-2 at the Mission Bay...
We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape in Dutch. This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects. We have selected what we...
We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape in Русский (Russian). This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects. We have...
We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape in Українська / (Ukrainian). This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects. We...
Groupon’s decision to award Clickworker.com a substantial contract to lead a large-scale, global translation and optimization project in a number of languages was a landmark award for the crowdsourcing industry. Clickworker’s win was a win for Clickworker and a win for the industry! Not only was this award significant in terms of it being an endorsement of crowdsourcing as a competitive delivery model for outsourced services by the global Internet coupon giant, but the fact that Groupon went public with the announcement was in itself momentous!
Last week I spoke with Clickworker’s CEO, Wolfgang Kitza, to not only congratulate him on his company’s win but to also find out more about Clickworker’s strategy and to learn more about what was needed to support the adoption of crowdsourcing by global brands.
According to Yannig Roth, the most disruptive models of crowdsourcing are those organized around social product development like Local Motors, Quirky or others like Ahhha. "You can’t make...
Crowd4self is CrowdEngineering’s latest product. Crowd4self makes it easy for any user to retain the management of the crowdsourcing process providing the capability to design the business process...
When I first wrote the Wired article, The Rise of Crowdsourcing, that coined that term, I could count the number of organizations using crowdsourcing on my hands and feet. Over the next several years crowdsourcing continued to grow: slowly, and organically, at first, then rapidly and egged on by an increasing number of books, articles, and the burgeoning hype around all things social media. By the time my book hit the stands in late 2008 the days when I could recount, from memory, all the important players in the crowdsourcing field were long gone. As I moved on to new projects, I wondered when someone would come along and conduct a comprehensive survey.
I'm happy to note the wait is over.
Crowdsourcing.org is pleased to present our November 2011 “Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape” infographic, which reflects our revised industry taxonomy and is aligned with Crowdsourcing.org's category structure. The infographic is available below (an ultra high-resolution version will be available for download from the site after CrowdConf2011).
In addition to updated site listings, this new version contains a number of important changes that reflect the current views of our research and editorial teams and input from our viewers. The previous taxonomy identified seven applications of crowdsourcing as well as a ‘Tools’ category — eight in total. After a period of considerable review, we’ve settled on six main categories of crowdsourcing.
"The whole purpose of creating the much needed crowdsourcing taxonomy is to provide a framework for the industry and to structure the discussion going forward,” says Carl Esposti, founder of Crowdsourcing.org. “As with all taxonomies, it must evolve as it is reviewed and refined."
"Crowdsourcing isn’t a static phenomenon," Esposti continues. "This is the third generation of our taxonomy, which we first launched at CrowdConf2010."
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.
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