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Crowdsourcing is a term that people've been using a lot lately.
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Do you know what it means?
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Crowdsourcing is the process of connecting with large groups of people
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via the Internet who are tapped for their knowledge, expertise, time or resources.
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This idea of reaching out to the crowd isn't new.
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Even before crowdsourcing in the Internet, we often collaborated with groups of people.
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Some people help because they were seeking a reward for their efforts or sometimes
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they just wanted to help.
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Let's go back to 1714
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Sailing the Seven Seas was necessary but really dangerous to navigate.
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So, the British government held a contest asking people for a solution.
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John Harrison answered the call he invented the marine chronometer
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and was awarded a large cash prize.
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Sailors used the marine chronometer to determine the ship's longitude with the help from the stars.
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Let's move forward a bit to 1858
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A group of scholars created the first Oxford English Dictionary.
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It was a huge project, and they needed help.
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So, they asked for lots of volunteers to write about different topics according to their experties
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and then they put it all together.
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The point is, relying on the crowd isn't really a new-fangled idea
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but it wasn't until we all got connected that crowdsourcing came about
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because with the Internet, you can reach lots of people very quickly
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and you can direct and organize their work.
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Think of it like this
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Crowdsourcing is a way of solving problems
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and producing things by connecting online
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with people that you otherwise wouldn't know
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Anyone can use crowdsourcing.
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Companies
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Governments
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Groups
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and individuals
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They can use it to grow their organizations
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or support their causes
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There are four different ways crowdsourcing works
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The first enables you to access a large online labor force
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You can identify and select workers
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or you can just post your work, let the workers find you.
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The second allows you to ask the crowd to help you find a solution to a problem.
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The third is when knowledge exists, but you need help finding and organizing it.
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The fourth is when you need ideas from the crowd and their opinion and feedback.
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So, as you can see,
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There are different ways crowdsourcing works
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and there are different things you could do with crowdsourcing.
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When you use the crowd to help collect and organize information
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we call it accessing Distributed Knowledge
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Crowdfunding, where you can raise capital from many individuals who believe in your venture or cause
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each making small donations that add up to a lot
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When you use crowdsourcing to connect with an on-demand scalable workforce
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to perform a broad range of tasks, we call it accessing Cloud Labor.
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Open Innovation is where you use crowdsourcing to reach diverse and creative people
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for new idea generation and problem solving.
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Crowdsourcing can be used to access the world's creative communities to design and develop original art, media, or content.
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We call this Crowd Creativity.
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There are many tools available that can be used in crowdsourcing.
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The support collaboration and communication among distributed groups of people.
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You want to know more, right?
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I thought so.
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Visit crowdsourcing.org for everything you want t know about crowdsourcing.
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Take a step further, and visit masssolution.com
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for assistance with your crowdsourcing initiatives and to learn how to benefit from crowdsourcing.