Monday, March 7, 2011

Definition and examples of crowdsourcing...

I've been talking about crowdsourcing a couple of times on this blog, but I realize I have never provided a clear definition yet... rather than inventing my own, it's probably better to leave the word to Jeff Howe who basically introduced the word (not the concept though):




I'm currently going through some examples of crowdsourcing... there's quite a complete list to be found on the crowdsourcingexamples website, but for a more dynamic taste of the phenomena better subscribe to www.crowdsourcing.org.

As to my personal favorites so far...:

Marketing:
www.crowdspring.com
www.namingforce.com
www.creatad.com

Innovation:
www.crowdworks.net
www.quirky.com
www.chaordix.com

...to be continued, undoubtedly...

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