Another term that tends to be identified with crowdsourcing is Open Innovation. As I did with Collective Intelligence, in this post I try to clarify the relationship between crowdsourcing and Open Innovation. Are both the same? …
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About rewards and motivation (Lessons learned I)
The realization of the crowdsourcing initiative I’ve launched, apart from allowing me to finish my thesis, is also allowing me to learn many things about the real application of crowdsourcing. Here I comment some thoughts about the rewards offered and the motivation of the users.
Read moreCrowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence
As I said on other posts, crowdsourcing is related and feeds from a group of terms such as Open Innovation, Collective Intelligence or Co-Creation. In this post I’m going to clarify the relationship between collective intelligence and crowdsourcing.
Types of crowdsourcing initiatives
In the current literature there are different typologies of crowdsourcing initiatives based on different criteria. Howe, Brabham and others propose their own. In this post I discuss the integrated typology I have developed and published with my PhD supervisor.
My first crowdsourcing initiative
After much study, it is time to put everything I’ve learned into practice. Here I explain the first initiative of crowdsourcing that I’ve designed and I’m carrying out in a SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) from Valencia, Spain.
About motivation factors in crowdsourcing
When carrying out a task, the motivation is one of the most important factors that will condition the final outcome. Regarding crowdsourcing, the motivation will condition the outcome but also the participation in the initiative. Here I comment some motivational factors, already identified in 1976 by G. Oldham.
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