Crowdsourcing has been traditionally associated with platforms like Delicious and YouTube. Thus, the term has grown linked to these “crowdsourcing” cases… the problem is that, in my opinion, any of them is a crowdsourcing platform
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Quid pro quo
When discerning whether a given initiative on the Internet is crowdsourcing or not, you can analyze different characteristics. Besides, you can check if two principles are accomplished. One of them is the quid pro quo principle. Have you ever heard this latin expression?
Read moreCrowdsourcing landscape in Spain
When talking about crowdsourcing, paradigmatic examples as Threadless and InnoCentive are often used . But these are often far from our reality, and even more if you are from another country. In the case of Spain, ¿which crowdsourcing platforms exist?In this post I have designed an infographic that tries to answer this question.
Read moreWhat is crowdsourcing? Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition
For the crowdsourcing to reach a solid theoretical base, a first step it should be taken is to articulate a comprehensive definition to distinguish CS from those initiatives that are not CS. In this post I suggest a comprehensive definition of crowdsourcing, a definition which will be published by a scientific journal shortly.
Interview with Goteo.org founders
Goteo.org is a special crowdfunding example that allows, not only co-fund, but also collaborate in other ways in creative projects that promote the common good. In this post, I’ll introduce its main characteristics and I also transcribe the interview I made to the people of Goteo.org for crowdsourcing.org.
Microtasking: a way of begin using crowdsourcing
For a company to find useful crowdsourcing, it is essential to identify those tasks on which it can be applied obtaining some benefit (saving time, costs, etc). Certainly, and more in the case of small company, complex tasks related for example to R&D are not this kind of tasks. The best place to start will probably be microtasking.