Crowdsourcing Week Presents its Ultimate Resource for All Things Crowdsourcing
Our commitment to being the global leader and innovation platform for all things crowdsourcing is founded on a mission to inspire and power breakthroughs through collaboration with our crowdsourcing partners. Those partners mean that through Crowdsourcing Week’s ultimate crowdsourcing resources we are able to provide innovation-seekers within any sort and size of organization with end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of crowd connection experiences at a whole new level of value and meaning – powered by a decade’s worth of expertise with The Crowd.
What used to be the focus of boot-strapping entrepreneurs, or dedicated in-house teams working to develop highly confidential business innovations and solutions, has been transformed by growing acceptance and adoption of crowdsourcing and the value it can add. Armed with smartphone and internet technology, it is possible to access networks of problem solvers and service providers on an on-demand basis.
You may want to access expertise to accelerate developing your ideas or business. Through the choice of platform, they may be experts in your specific business or industry sector, or experts in their own with transferable knowledge, insight and expertise that can spark disruptive innovation through making previously unimaginable connections.
Or maybe you more simply want to add capacity at times when necessary microtasks exceed your organization’s resources. A number of platforms have networks of microtaskers looking for short-term opportunities to earn in the gig economy. They may be retired, housebound, caring for dependents, work irregular shifts, or for any other reason prefer? working from home at times when it suits them. In some cases, microtaskers may treat it as a stepping stone to regular employment – and they will seek to impress!
Crowdsouring resources in Prize Challenges
Mass digital connectivity has created valuable opportunities for organizations to harness knowledge and expertise far beyond in-house teams or expensive professional consultants to drive innovation. Whether you are a startup business, a global corporation, or at any stage in between, many users of prize challenges are unsure where to start, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
There are non-employee experts to consider involving within your own business sector or industry who will be familiar with industry-wide issues, and experts who could bring transferable insight from other sectors. Do not overlook using your own existing crowds – employees, customers and suppliers who are familiar with your products or services. Large issues can be broken down to a series of smaller ones, and each task can target different audiences.?
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To start the process it’s best to consider how you want it to end. What do you want to receive in a range from outline ideas to working prototypes? Who will sift through the response your challenge generates, and what criteria will they use? What impact would different scales of a monetary prize have? Maybe shortlisting the best of the first stage responders and giving them more information, maybe even a budget, would be the way to go. What will govern ownership of any resulting intellectual property? These factors are common to all open innovation projects, and we can connect you with a platform of proven expertise to guide and work with you.?
Microtasking?
Get big things done faster, better and cheaper by breaking them down to a series of microtasks and offering them to an on-demand workforce. Numerous platforms have established good reputations for the reliability and accuracy of the work carried out by their crowdsourced microtaskers.
Diverse tasks, usually at a clerical level, include image identification, transcription and annotation; content moderation; data collection and processing; supplying images; checking supermarket shelves and product displays; audio and video transcription; and translation work. Clients use the platforms to post bulk tasks that need completion, and workers select tasks they can handle and are paid for each individual task or piece of work completed. The platforms pay the workers the price indicated by the client, minus any fee.
‘Employers’ that use microtask platforms sometimes find taskers they feel particularly comfortable with, and may choose to work with them on a fairly regular basis. Improved and growing relevant experience of a microtasker with an organization’s activities is a benefit to both parties when crowdsourcing resources.