Crowdsourcing: The Public Knows You
Hey Everybody,
I have been interested for a while in crowdsourcing or community sourcing. This is basically the power of tapping a community or the public for an idea or answer that used to be done be a single profession. It is info and ideas by the populous. Think Wikipedia. Or Threadless here.
Anyway, it is interesting to see how much of business can now be crowdsourced or publicly outsourced: photos, design, customer service, cost structures, etc. What’s next? Is your job role one that the public can easily perform? Here is a great blog post I read by Twittermaven on crowdsourcing examples. Also check out the video below for more interesting info on crowdsourcing from the resident expert, Jeff Howe.
Enjoy,
Will Flavell
Bill,
What I find really interesting is that the concept of crowdsourcing has been happening for years in the the form of Open Source software development. If not for crowdsourcing we wouldn’t have the web as it exists today. Here are some wonderful examples.
1) Linux
2) Apache (This web server runs more than 50% of all websites)
3) MySQL
4) WordPress
5) Firefox
6) Open Office
Scott Rowe
July 29, 2009 at 4:29 pm
What up Scott?
Totally agreed. I do think that it is an interesting cultural development that we are willing to open our ideas and projects up the the entire Web.
Best,
Will
Will Flavell
July 29, 2009 at 5:54 pm