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 [...]
We’ve talked in the past how the use of game mechanics on the web is a hot topic these das and how that can help a business as incentive for user participation and engagement.
There are even examples of tasks that are made into explicit games in order to achieve what is needed.
Of course because everybody [...]
Jan Willem Alphenaar (the crowdsourced DSB Movie) has a new presentation over at Slideshare about tips for successful crowdsourcing based on his experience so far. We’ve had another one from him on the blog before, about Crowdsourcing and Humanistic Psychology dealing with incentives in crowdsourcing.
This one has a set of 10 tips that are all [...]