A very quick, informative video about Crowdsourcing – what it is, examples, issues and tips A different version (and one with narration) will be posted soon on the subject.
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Brian Bednarek, CEO of Mesh 01 and Industry Analyst, spoke with Up to the Minute anchor Michelle Gielan about crowdsourcing and how it’s changing the way companies work.
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What is Crowdsourcing? go to what-is-crowdsourcing.com and join the debate.
Crowdsourcing Lukas Biewald, CEO, CrowdFlower Sharon Chiarella, Vice President, Mechanical Turk at Amazon Lilly Irani, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Irvine, Dept. of Informatics; Previously a User Experience Designer, Google Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder and CEO, Samasource Brad Stone, Technology Correspondent, The New York Times – Moderator Since Jeff Howe coined the phrase crowdsourcing in 2006, the idea of tapping into the power of the human cloud has brought both innovation and controversy. From building a people-powered online encyclopedia to algorithm contests, crowdsourcing might be the worlds largest real-time workforce. But questions remain: Can you trust the crowd to give high-quality information? Will this movement allow a whole new way to work for the disenfranchised? How will being able to share knowledge more efficiently than ever before change the world?
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Crowdsourcing” has, virtually overnight, generated huge buzz, enthusiasm, and fear. It’s the application of the open-source idea to any field outside of software, taking a function performed by people in an organization, such as reporting done by journalists, research and product development by scientists, or design of a T-shirt, for example, and, in effect, “outsourcing” it through an open-air broadcast on the Internet. Crowdsourcing has already had a huge impact on big companies like Procter & Gamble, as well as start-ups like Threadless.com, which rapidly became the third largest T-shirt maker in the United States. The fuel sparking the crowdsourcing flame is the potent combination of more highly educated people working in fields other than those in which they were trained (think of the art historian peddling financial advice at Merrill Lynch) with the greatest mechanism for distributing knowledge and information the world has ever seen: the Internet.
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