This presentation at MinneDemo was the starting point for a crowsdsourced exploration of crowdsourcing.

1. CrowdSourcing Platforms: What
Works, What Doesn't?
Mike Ellsworth, Linked InSolutions
And
The Crowd

2. Agenda
• There are lots of crowdsourcing platforms out there,
including Chaordix, IdeaScale, CrowdSpirit, Zyrist, and
MobIncentive.
• Anybody actually implemented one?
• Anybody know what works and what doesn't?
• The idea seems simple enough, but obviously the
platform and its capabilities, stability and extensibility
can affect the success of the crowdsourcing effort.
• Let's learn from one another about what makes a good
plaform, and a good crowdsourcing project.

3. What is Crowdsourcing?
• Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking
tasks traditionally performed by an employee or
contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of
people or community in the form of an open call.
• For example, the public may be invited to develop a
new technology, carry out a design task (also known as
community‐based design[1] and distributed
participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an
algorithm (see Human‐based computation), or help
capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data
(see also citizen science).

4. Platforms – Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Amazon Mechanical Turk

5. Platforms – Brightidea

6. Platforms – Imaginatik

7. Platforms – Chaordix

8. Platforms – Innocentive

9. Platforms – Shoutlet?

10. Resources – Crowdsourcing Examples

11. Resources – Open Innovators

12. Resources ‐ Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
• https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
• http://www.brightidea.com/switchboard.bix
• http://www.imaginatik.com/webdoc_prod_idc_descrip
tion
• http://www.chaordix.com/?gclid=CJiG9PnGnJ4CFQ4ND
Qod0GEPlg
• http://www.innocentive.com/
• http://crowdsourcingexamples.pbworks.com/
• http://www.openinnovators.net/
• http://shoutlet.com/features/widgets.php

13. Resources ‐ Links
• Or:
http://bit.ly/4CINuA
Mellsworth@LinkedInsolutions.com
@MikeEllsworth