Cross-posted from the Wooshii Blog
Wikipedia is one of crowdsourcing’s best and successful examples: it’s been way bigger than any other encyclopedia out there, and all done (mostly) by volunteers wanting to contribute it.
The thing is, many people usually wonder and ask: why so many people contribute for free?
Well they launched a video yesterday that shows [...]
Threadless is one of crowdsourcing’s most successful stories, and they started doing it even before people actually started calling it “crowdsourcing”!
We found this mini-documentary earlier today (via a tweet by @IdeaBounty), which was done in partnership with Dell and tells their story and what they’re all about.
It’s really interesting, and people involved in this area [...]
This is a topic I’ve wanted to talk about a few weeks ago when the news came out, but we’ve had the server down last week and it kind of fell through.
So in May, the INTERPOL launched a program – Operation Infra-Red – to help out find 450 wanted criminals across the globe.
The thing is, [...]
We plan to do a follow-up on some projects we talk about here to see how things are moving along, and the first one in this kinds of posts is the crowdsourced SyFy movie.
The site went live a few days after we posted it, and from the looks of it, at this point at least [...]
We’ve been talking a lot lately about game mechanics, and once post about how games are helping search engines get better through crowdsourcing.
In this last example, two benefitial actions are ocurring at the same time: 1) people are having fun 2) people are helping make something better (a search engine).
But in spite of all the [...]
A crowd or a community is important in every business, and every brand want their audience engaged, even more online.
But when we’re talking about crowdsourcing, it’s even more vital: it’s key for it to work effectively.
With the ammount of talk these days dedicated about game mechanics being applied to traditionally non-game related areas, particularly online [...]
In a previous post, we talked about how the incentives for the crowd to be involved with challenges are not always financial. In fact, in many cases, non-financial rewards have even more meaning than financial ones (related to Maslow’s Theory of Needs).
Sometimes even building games out of it.
From the Kickstarter blog come two great examples [...]
Crowdsourcing is no stranger to the fashion industry. Threadless is one of the most known and successful crowdsourcing businesses, where anyone can submit a t-shirt design, vote it out, comment it, and then the top ones get to be made.
It’s such a smart process, because when you have someone comment or rate a design, they [...]
We’ve seen how the US government has embraced crowdsourcing in this latest administration.
Now we have more examples of several different instances of government going for it.
First off, several US City goverments have done it.
The City of San Francisco put out a call for its employees in how to decrease its $522 million deficit, with rewards [...]
In our last post we talked about two fronts where crowdsourcing was being used for the Oil Spill, in both the observation and coming up with solutions.
We couldn’t help to follow up that post with this two other very good examples.
The first one is a big one we missed: Innocentive, one of the top crowdsourcing [...]