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The empirical examination of the products and motivations of crisis tweeters who emerged in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake reveals important features of self-organizing in a highly...
One of the tenets of the open source software movement was that armies of coders and testers would fall-in and self organize driven purely by intrinsic rewards. This was driven by the notion that they could not only build it better, but that closed and restrictive practices were not in everyone’s best interest! So, it would seem that if you could harness the intrinsic motivations of this special breed of individual and further reward their performance, you might just have an unbeatable business model…..maybe uTest has discovered that model?
I was keen to find out what made uTest’s model different and, from the looks of its top name client list, what was underpinning its obvious success. I recently interviewed Matt Johnston, uTest’s Chief Marketing Officer, who shed some light on uTest’s interesting business model.
This is a nice short article summarizing SENSORICA's growing infrastructure.
Inkling offers collective intelligence solutions which help organizations decrease operational and strategic risk. Inkling's solutions, anchored by its collaborative predictions platform...
Crowdsourcing is often embraced as a model for open innovation to introduce ideas and influence change from outside the organization. To find out more about how leading companies are using crowdsourcing as a model to drive competitive advantage, I spoke with John Bernier, a Manager within the Emerging Platforms group at Best Buy, and former lead of Best Buy’s Twelpforce initiative, their innovative service that empowers employees from across the country to answer customer questions in real time via Twitter.
The Cooks Source case is interesting in two ways. First, it shows again the crowd’s ability to organize itself in a heartbeat around a task online. The act of organization happens without an...
Peer production must be modular, that means that objectives must be divisible into tasks or components that can be independently produced and later combined with the efforts of others. One of the...
For the first time, it's possible to raise real money for a group/team/charity while treating the supporters to great products that feature the group's logo! No setup fees. No minimum...
A good read on how crowdsourcing drives participation within communities and let people feel recognized and heard.
myAzimia is the first company to exclusively provide a crowdfunding platform to entrepreneurs and institutions. Our software as a service platform allows entrepreneurs and institutions to set up...
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, about the company’s vision and business model. Samasource offers a “private crowd” as a model that fits between traditional outsourcing and crowdsourcing; the former providing advantages delivered through the organization of qualified labor and the latter delivering the greatest labor arbitrage advantage. Samasource employs a dedicated workforce, managed off-shore by trained service partners that provide quality control in designated work centers. Janah describes Samasource as “a distributive work company that employs crowdsourcing principles.”
There are a myriad of possibilities in the search for crowdsourcing milestones that announced its advent and its adoption as a model for online production, problem solving and for organizing for collective action: Commercial applications, advertising campaigns that succeed or backfire, funding for entrepreneurial ventures. This list of one dozen focuses on the pinnacles that demonstrate crowdsourcing’s highest potential: For public good, scientific research and technological innovation.
Each of these events involves a seminal moment when crowdsourcing came into greater public awareness being driven from calls to action that resulted in ever increasing numbers of individuals working together in a manner that has raised our collective consciousness.
We have selected our landmark crowdsourcing events based on criteria that make them notable because of their scale, their impact and the extent of their outreach to a wider audience both demographically and geographically. See if you agree with our choices!
As a Crowdsortium member, Capseo will continue to test and develop its own crowdsourcing, so they are hoping to improve the way people and companies are confident into crowdsourced services.
How do you organize ideas and control the quality of what is produced by crowdsourcing? These were the main questions from the audience that followed a discussion at Social Media Brazil, which took place last week in São Paulo. A first for the industry, the social media event provided a forum this year for a good debate about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. According to Rafael Zatti, creator of Ideias.me, when consumers work together to produce a new product they effectively take part of the process. And in this process the community itself becomes the quality control. “When a project is well structured, the community is self-regulating.”
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Starmind International was founded in June 2010 as incorporation (AG). Starmind, which has its roots in robotics and artificial intelligence research, builds up...
The growing number of requests Crowdsourcing.org is receiving to share expertise at various events around the world is a signal of the uptake of crowdsourcing, and of the momentum that continues to build around this model! Following a great presentation at CrowdConvention in Berlin, Carl Esposti, Founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing.org spoke at the Kom Je Ook conference in Amsterdam last week.
Moderated by Jim Savage (Partner at Longworth Venture Partners), the Crowdsortium Panel Discussion involved the following panel members: Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor at Wired Magazine &...
The debate about the definition of crowdsourcing continues and the conversation inevitably draws to what exactly is and what isn’t crowdsourcing. While it’s interesting and fun to reference historical examples of open collaboration, it can actually confuse the dialogue. Historical examples are useful though in enabling a clear comparison with what we have chosen today to define as crowdsourcing.
The Longitude Prize of 1714, offering £20,000 in an open call to anyone that could come up with a way for merchants and sailors to navigate at sea, won by John Harrison, the son of a carpenter; the Niagara Suspension Bridge prize of 1847 offering a $10 prize to the person who could successfully lay the first line across the Niagara won by a young boy using a kite; the project to compile the first Oxford English Dictionary in the late 1890’s that involved a group of scholars breaking the work into manageable chunks and enlisting the support of the crowd – the examples are numerous! While these examples and many more show that open calls to undefined groups with the offer of a monetary or altruistic award is nothing new, they don’t fit with our definition of crowdsourcing!
MicroGiving is a crowd funding website that lets you raise money online to fund a project, cause or entrepreneurial idea and give a percent of what you raise directly to a charity, cause,...
A small gathering congregated in São Paulo this weekend, ahead of the first International Conference on Crowdsourcing, being hosted tomorrow at the offices of one of Brazil’s largest telcos, Vivo. Having not long returned from Europe, presenting at CrowdConvention in Berlin in June, Europe’s first ever Crowdsourcing event [link], the privilege once more be part of a small quorum of crowdsourcing evangelists sharing their insights and experience to another group of inquisitive on-lookers and practitioners alike, this time south of the equator, is one that is not overlooked.
Under the enthusiastic and tenacious leadership of Marina Miranda, Managing Director of mutopo, Latin America the event is sure to be a success. Based out of mutopo’s São Paulo Office, Miranda has secured contributions from enterprise sponsors Telefônica, vivo, Microsoft BizSpark, Tecnisa and Boa Vista and raised ticket sales of ~300, great for a first event in a new market. Miranda has also been able to secure a notable cast of speakers representing both local companies and the international market.
mutopo’s core business is social production with a mission to help organizations think through crowdsourcing applications and to support the implementation of initiatives often involving the introduction of other crowdsourcing tool providers to help
Brazil, having experienced a huge uptake over the last twelve months both in the use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding and in terms of the number of new platforms launched, was ready and primed for its first event. The last twelve months have seen an increased adoption of crowdsourcing as a model to support open innovation, as a model for the production of creative works and for solutions requiring the crowd to collect and organize information.
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.
