Overview of the emergence and advancement of crowdsourcing for commercial and social uses. Presentation mostly emphasizes current uses and the firms supporting the business model. Presenters are encourage to spend some time with a few of these sites as a clickworker to get a good understanding of the models.
World Government Summit on Open Source (keynote file)Tim O'Reilly
This is the keynote file for my talk at the Acquia World Government Summit on Open Source. I talked about the role of open source in the internet, and the role it can play in government.
Presentation on how Web 2.0 and change management are interrelated. A view on the future of change facilitation. Presentation held at the International Association of Facilitators conference in Atlanta. April 12, 2008 by Holger Nauheimer.
There is (at least) one error in the slide show. Peter did of course his forst YouTube video not in 1996, but in 2006.
The document discusses the unbundling and rebundling of higher education due to disruptions from online courses and technology. It notes that unbundling of content delivery, social networks, accreditation, testing, and research from universities is occurring but that rebundling of these elements into new models will reshape power structures. Specifically, it suggests rebundling may move control from universities to integrated online networks. Impacts on teachers and learners are still emerging but the diversity of faculty talent should be embraced in new models.
The document summarizes Thomas Friedman's "ten flatteners" that have led to globalization. These flatteners include the rise of capitalism over communism, global standards and connectivity through technologies like the internet, outsourcing of jobs to countries like India, open-source communities and software, the rise of blogging, offshoring of jobs to China, and digital technologies like instant messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. The document also discusses how technologies like Google have made the world's knowledge accessible from anywhere.
The document summarizes Thomas Friedman's "ten flatteners" that have led to globalization. These flatteners include the rise of capitalism over communism, global standards and connectivity through technologies like the internet, outsourcing of jobs to countries like India, open-source communities and software, the rise of blogging, offshoring of jobs to China, and digital technologies like instant messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. The document also discusses how technologies like Google and wireless devices have given people access to knowledge and communication anywhere in the world.
My submission for Interaction 12's Student Design Competition on the theme of The Future of News. My idea talks about an "actionable" form of news, in which news consumers are empowered to actually take action on the events from the news.
Exploring Leadership in Third Industrial Revolution TeiglandRobin Teigland
My presentation at "Leadership in Complex Orgnizations" workshop in Oslo Nov 2013 organized by NHH Focus: http://www.nhh.no/no/forskning-og-fagmilj%C3%B8/handlingsprogrammet-nhh-2021/nhh-2021/focus.aspx
This document discusses several trends related to the transition to a "chaordic society" driven by technological explosions and social transformations. It notes the rise of platforms in areas like hospitality, digital identities, gaming, and collaborative economies. It also touches on themes like artificial intelligence, transhumanism, blockchain/cryptocurrencies, surveillance, privacy, and new decentralized economic systems being enabled by data sharing within local networks. The future is portrayed as one of increasing connectivity, autonomy, and opportunities for self-organization through new decentralized models.
World Government Summit on Open Source (keynote file)Tim O'Reilly
This is the keynote file for my talk at the Acquia World Government Summit on Open Source. I talked about the role of open source in the internet, and the role it can play in government.
Presentation on how Web 2.0 and change management are interrelated. A view on the future of change facilitation. Presentation held at the International Association of Facilitators conference in Atlanta. April 12, 2008 by Holger Nauheimer.
There is (at least) one error in the slide show. Peter did of course his forst YouTube video not in 1996, but in 2006.
The document discusses the unbundling and rebundling of higher education due to disruptions from online courses and technology. It notes that unbundling of content delivery, social networks, accreditation, testing, and research from universities is occurring but that rebundling of these elements into new models will reshape power structures. Specifically, it suggests rebundling may move control from universities to integrated online networks. Impacts on teachers and learners are still emerging but the diversity of faculty talent should be embraced in new models.
The document summarizes Thomas Friedman's "ten flatteners" that have led to globalization. These flatteners include the rise of capitalism over communism, global standards and connectivity through technologies like the internet, outsourcing of jobs to countries like India, open-source communities and software, the rise of blogging, offshoring of jobs to China, and digital technologies like instant messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. The document also discusses how technologies like Google have made the world's knowledge accessible from anywhere.
The document summarizes Thomas Friedman's "ten flatteners" that have led to globalization. These flatteners include the rise of capitalism over communism, global standards and connectivity through technologies like the internet, outsourcing of jobs to countries like India, open-source communities and software, the rise of blogging, offshoring of jobs to China, and digital technologies like instant messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. The document also discusses how technologies like Google and wireless devices have given people access to knowledge and communication anywhere in the world.
My submission for Interaction 12's Student Design Competition on the theme of The Future of News. My idea talks about an "actionable" form of news, in which news consumers are empowered to actually take action on the events from the news.
Exploring Leadership in Third Industrial Revolution TeiglandRobin Teigland
My presentation at "Leadership in Complex Orgnizations" workshop in Oslo Nov 2013 organized by NHH Focus: http://www.nhh.no/no/forskning-og-fagmilj%C3%B8/handlingsprogrammet-nhh-2021/nhh-2021/focus.aspx
This document discusses several trends related to the transition to a "chaordic society" driven by technological explosions and social transformations. It notes the rise of platforms in areas like hospitality, digital identities, gaming, and collaborative economies. It also touches on themes like artificial intelligence, transhumanism, blockchain/cryptocurrencies, surveillance, privacy, and new decentralized economic systems being enabled by data sharing within local networks. The future is portrayed as one of increasing connectivity, autonomy, and opportunities for self-organization through new decentralized models.
This document discusses trends toward decentralization, flexible work arrangements, and the growing gig economy. It provides statistics on the rise of freelancing and independent work. Coworking spaces are presented as enablers of connectivity, collaboration, and innovation that allow organizations to access skills and opportunities beyond their traditional boundaries. Data from the Seats2meet coworking platform demonstrates increasing social and economic value generated through serendipitous connections and opportunities among coworking members over time.
Jaap Van Til's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 200...eCommConf
The document summarizes the keynote speech given by Jaap van Till at the eComm Emerging Communications Conference in Amsterdam. It discusses how networking technology will help societies overcome economic crises through cooperative commons and synthecracy. Examples like Wikipedia and open source show how value increases exponentially as more people contribute and connect. Network effects will scale solutions through collaboration rather than markets or states alone.
Metanomics Transcript May 27 2009, Measuring Value in Virtual WorldsDoug Thompson
This document summarizes a discussion from the Metanomics podcast about virtual teams and organizations.
1) Tony O'Driscoll from Duke University kicks off the discussion by looking at recent NSF research on virtual organizations and sociotechnical systems. This research examines how and when virtual organizations can enable scientific and educational work.
2) The main guest, Dr. Mitzi Montoya from NC State University, then presents her research on measuring the effectiveness of virtual worlds using her scale of "perceived virtual presence." Her research finds that the more present users feel in virtual worlds, the greater the effectiveness of training, collaboration, education, or presentations.
3) The discussion concludes by considering which industries
U9L1: The computer and technology revolutionsJesSmith817
Technological changes and globalization transformed the American economy in the 20th century. The development of the computer and microchip led to personal computers that changed business and everyday life. Advances in communications technologies like the Internet enabled multinational corporations to do business globally, connecting economies around the world. This led the U.S. economy to shift from manufacturing to services as the production of goods declined but services increased.
Unit 9 lesson 1 the computer and technology revolutionsMrsSmithGHS
Technological changes and globalization transformed the American economy in the 20th century. The development of the computer and microchip led to personal computers that changed business and everyday life. Advances in communications technologies like the Internet enabled multinational corporations to do business globally, connecting economies around the world. This led the U.S. economy to shift from manufacturing to services as the production of goods declined but services increased.
Presented at Stanford's "Publishing on the Web" Nov. 2007: There are lots of new ways to create value for your brand. Participating in the Web ecosystem in the right ways can create deeper relationships with your users, build new kinds of communities and open up new revenue streams for you. Learn from some of the cutting edge online media services how to take advantage of the opportunities that come with opening up and becoming an active participant in the new market.
Ronald van den Hoff is an author, publisher, trendwatcher, entrepreneur, coach, investor, and chairman who discusses the rise of a "chaordic" or technologically and socially transforming society from 1995 to 2025. Key transformations include the internet providing access to information, the social web enabling connectivity, and collaborative economies creating new social and economic value through platforms. Advancements may lead to an autonomous world where artificial and human intelligence are connected through a "global brain" and "metaverse-mesh," and intelligent robots perform jobs cheaper and more reliably than humans.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
The document discusses how the media landscape has been transformed by the internet and new technologies. Key points include:
1. The internet has created a new form of mass-self communication that is interactive, horizontal and allows many-to-many communication in real-time.
2. Web 2.0 and social media have enabled a new form of civil society through ubiquitous communication and sharing of images, sounds and ideas.
3. Commons-based peer production has created a new economic model where large projects are completed through coordinated creative effort, often without traditional hierarchy or financial compensation.
I was asked to present my views on what the Internet would look like in 2020. What I present is the Kurzweil "Singularity" vs the Bruce Sterling "Blobjects" view. Video available at http://blogs.magnatune.com/buckman/2007/06/video-of-my-pre.html
Creating Value in an Era of Exponential Change Learning SeriesHigher Logic
How is your organization competing to win, in a world where access to anyone or anything is constantly available and automatically recommended? Join Brian Vellmure, Principal/Founder of Innovantage LLC to better understand how you can help your organization and communities win—win membership, win engagement, and win your users’ time, energy and attention. Assuming the current trajectory, we soon will have an interconnected, global network of people, machines, robots, appliances, cameras, smartphones and devices we have not even conceived yet. A faster and richly connected Internet continues to outpace our individual comprehension of how to leverage new technology—but will we remain captive to an old way of thinking? In a networked economy, the concept of competing and winning may be outdated. Or perhaps it’s simply the methods, measurements and outcomes that have become old-fashioned. The better question may be: How will you continually create value in a constantly evolving world?
The document discusses how information and technology are shaping society and business. It notes how controlling information has always been important for those in power. Several quotes praise Y Combinator and its embodiment of the Silicon Valley spirit. The document considers entrepreneurs as the new labor and two optimistic scenarios for the future. It concludes with references for further reading on related topics.
Design Around Behaviors, AIGA 10x10 PresentationRon Edelen
Building from Kevin Kelly's Internet of Things, I will show an evolution of design thinking from adaptive screens to natural human interfaces to complete co-dependance. We will look into the future of interaction design by being more responsive to human behaviors rather than the size of your screen. And by making a delicious strawberry smoothie, I will discuss the role of design in the connected world and how it can help us take better care of ourselves and others.
The document discusses net neutrality and its importance for innovation on the internet. It argues that an open, free, and fair internet without interference from internet service providers allows for new ideas and services to be created, as seen with companies like Google, Facebook, and the Human Genome Project. The author was among several tech executives who advocated to keep net neutrality rules in place so that the internet remains open for creativity and new developments that can improve life.
While social media engagement could potentially drive corporations to be more sustainable, true stakeholder engagement through these channels often avoids addressing issues of power imbalances and fails to challenge core business values, resulting in only superficial sustainability efforts. Additionally, social media is revealing social inequities like how bankers' bonuses rely on the invisible labor of vulnerable groups. For progress, companies should focus on empowering people and open collaboration to "construct alternatives" using digital tools, rather than seeing themselves at the center surrounded by stakeholders.
This document discusses establishing a virtual campus called Holyrood Park within the online virtual world Second Life to support an online learning program for the University of Edinburgh. The program would be aimed at professionals in higher education, further education, and training. Holyrood Park is named after a real park and former monastery established in Edinburgh in the 12th century. The virtual campus could provide educational opportunities through social learning, identity exploration, and blending real and virtual experiences, but would require addressing legal, technical, and accessibility issues.
The future of media and news monitoring (Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at FI...Gerd Leonhard
This is an edited version of my presentation at http://www.fibep.info/fibep/en/2012CongressProfessionalProgramme.php on the future of media, news, data, social media - and media monitoring technologies and business models
This presentation provide two approaches to addressing the lifecycle refresh requirements for a colleges multi-mediated teaching stations. The approach demonstrate show to solve the issues when it is budgetary and there is a need for consistency in the technology.
Maximizing Use Of SharePoint discusses how a college implemented SharePoint 2010 to replace their previous content management system. They created a new public website, custom applications integrated with their student information system, cleaner list views, an intranet portal, and used out of the box SharePoint functionality for communication, collaboration and engagement. They also developed applications for early alert referrals, behavior intervention referrals, administrative forms with workflows, and IT project management.
This document discusses trends toward decentralization, flexible work arrangements, and the growing gig economy. It provides statistics on the rise of freelancing and independent work. Coworking spaces are presented as enablers of connectivity, collaboration, and innovation that allow organizations to access skills and opportunities beyond their traditional boundaries. Data from the Seats2meet coworking platform demonstrates increasing social and economic value generated through serendipitous connections and opportunities among coworking members over time.
Jaap Van Til's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 200...eCommConf
The document summarizes the keynote speech given by Jaap van Till at the eComm Emerging Communications Conference in Amsterdam. It discusses how networking technology will help societies overcome economic crises through cooperative commons and synthecracy. Examples like Wikipedia and open source show how value increases exponentially as more people contribute and connect. Network effects will scale solutions through collaboration rather than markets or states alone.
Metanomics Transcript May 27 2009, Measuring Value in Virtual WorldsDoug Thompson
This document summarizes a discussion from the Metanomics podcast about virtual teams and organizations.
1) Tony O'Driscoll from Duke University kicks off the discussion by looking at recent NSF research on virtual organizations and sociotechnical systems. This research examines how and when virtual organizations can enable scientific and educational work.
2) The main guest, Dr. Mitzi Montoya from NC State University, then presents her research on measuring the effectiveness of virtual worlds using her scale of "perceived virtual presence." Her research finds that the more present users feel in virtual worlds, the greater the effectiveness of training, collaboration, education, or presentations.
3) The discussion concludes by considering which industries
U9L1: The computer and technology revolutionsJesSmith817
Technological changes and globalization transformed the American economy in the 20th century. The development of the computer and microchip led to personal computers that changed business and everyday life. Advances in communications technologies like the Internet enabled multinational corporations to do business globally, connecting economies around the world. This led the U.S. economy to shift from manufacturing to services as the production of goods declined but services increased.
Unit 9 lesson 1 the computer and technology revolutionsMrsSmithGHS
Technological changes and globalization transformed the American economy in the 20th century. The development of the computer and microchip led to personal computers that changed business and everyday life. Advances in communications technologies like the Internet enabled multinational corporations to do business globally, connecting economies around the world. This led the U.S. economy to shift from manufacturing to services as the production of goods declined but services increased.
Presented at Stanford's "Publishing on the Web" Nov. 2007: There are lots of new ways to create value for your brand. Participating in the Web ecosystem in the right ways can create deeper relationships with your users, build new kinds of communities and open up new revenue streams for you. Learn from some of the cutting edge online media services how to take advantage of the opportunities that come with opening up and becoming an active participant in the new market.
Ronald van den Hoff is an author, publisher, trendwatcher, entrepreneur, coach, investor, and chairman who discusses the rise of a "chaordic" or technologically and socially transforming society from 1995 to 2025. Key transformations include the internet providing access to information, the social web enabling connectivity, and collaborative economies creating new social and economic value through platforms. Advancements may lead to an autonomous world where artificial and human intelligence are connected through a "global brain" and "metaverse-mesh," and intelligent robots perform jobs cheaper and more reliably than humans.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
The document discusses how the media landscape has been transformed by the internet and new technologies. Key points include:
1. The internet has created a new form of mass-self communication that is interactive, horizontal and allows many-to-many communication in real-time.
2. Web 2.0 and social media have enabled a new form of civil society through ubiquitous communication and sharing of images, sounds and ideas.
3. Commons-based peer production has created a new economic model where large projects are completed through coordinated creative effort, often without traditional hierarchy or financial compensation.
I was asked to present my views on what the Internet would look like in 2020. What I present is the Kurzweil "Singularity" vs the Bruce Sterling "Blobjects" view. Video available at http://blogs.magnatune.com/buckman/2007/06/video-of-my-pre.html
Creating Value in an Era of Exponential Change Learning SeriesHigher Logic
How is your organization competing to win, in a world where access to anyone or anything is constantly available and automatically recommended? Join Brian Vellmure, Principal/Founder of Innovantage LLC to better understand how you can help your organization and communities win—win membership, win engagement, and win your users’ time, energy and attention. Assuming the current trajectory, we soon will have an interconnected, global network of people, machines, robots, appliances, cameras, smartphones and devices we have not even conceived yet. A faster and richly connected Internet continues to outpace our individual comprehension of how to leverage new technology—but will we remain captive to an old way of thinking? In a networked economy, the concept of competing and winning may be outdated. Or perhaps it’s simply the methods, measurements and outcomes that have become old-fashioned. The better question may be: How will you continually create value in a constantly evolving world?
The document discusses how information and technology are shaping society and business. It notes how controlling information has always been important for those in power. Several quotes praise Y Combinator and its embodiment of the Silicon Valley spirit. The document considers entrepreneurs as the new labor and two optimistic scenarios for the future. It concludes with references for further reading on related topics.
Design Around Behaviors, AIGA 10x10 PresentationRon Edelen
Building from Kevin Kelly's Internet of Things, I will show an evolution of design thinking from adaptive screens to natural human interfaces to complete co-dependance. We will look into the future of interaction design by being more responsive to human behaviors rather than the size of your screen. And by making a delicious strawberry smoothie, I will discuss the role of design in the connected world and how it can help us take better care of ourselves and others.
The document discusses net neutrality and its importance for innovation on the internet. It argues that an open, free, and fair internet without interference from internet service providers allows for new ideas and services to be created, as seen with companies like Google, Facebook, and the Human Genome Project. The author was among several tech executives who advocated to keep net neutrality rules in place so that the internet remains open for creativity and new developments that can improve life.
While social media engagement could potentially drive corporations to be more sustainable, true stakeholder engagement through these channels often avoids addressing issues of power imbalances and fails to challenge core business values, resulting in only superficial sustainability efforts. Additionally, social media is revealing social inequities like how bankers' bonuses rely on the invisible labor of vulnerable groups. For progress, companies should focus on empowering people and open collaboration to "construct alternatives" using digital tools, rather than seeing themselves at the center surrounded by stakeholders.
This document discusses establishing a virtual campus called Holyrood Park within the online virtual world Second Life to support an online learning program for the University of Edinburgh. The program would be aimed at professionals in higher education, further education, and training. Holyrood Park is named after a real park and former monastery established in Edinburgh in the 12th century. The virtual campus could provide educational opportunities through social learning, identity exploration, and blending real and virtual experiences, but would require addressing legal, technical, and accessibility issues.
The future of media and news monitoring (Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at FI...Gerd Leonhard
This is an edited version of my presentation at http://www.fibep.info/fibep/en/2012CongressProfessionalProgramme.php on the future of media, news, data, social media - and media monitoring technologies and business models
This presentation provide two approaches to addressing the lifecycle refresh requirements for a colleges multi-mediated teaching stations. The approach demonstrate show to solve the issues when it is budgetary and there is a need for consistency in the technology.
Maximizing Use Of SharePoint discusses how a college implemented SharePoint 2010 to replace their previous content management system. They created a new public website, custom applications integrated with their student information system, cleaner list views, an intranet portal, and used out of the box SharePoint functionality for communication, collaboration and engagement. They also developed applications for early alert referrals, behavior intervention referrals, administrative forms with workflows, and IT project management.
This presentation provides and overview of 34CFR668 for HEOA P2P requirements. It is offered in concert with an assessment program also on SlideShare and the post on blog.thehigheredcio.com.
This presentation was developed for the 2011 AFCOM Data Center World conference as a case study. It outlines the the decision by one college to not build a new data center and instead develop a strategy to leverage off premise solutions including the Cloud.
Phase 1 of the Cisco UCS implementation was completed, migrating approximately 130 VMs to the new infrastructure with only minor issues. Phase 2 will focus on migrating additional workloads like Citrix, SQL clusters, and call management systems. The UCS implementation has already reduced the organization's colocation costs by $1,100 per month through decreased rack and power usage, with expected annual savings of $13,000 after Phase 1 and over $30,000 after Phase 2. Initial performance monitoring also shows efficiency gains from lowered CPU and memory utilization within the virtualized environments.
Developing an IT Service Strategy Part 1 Describing the ChallengeJerry Bishop
The document discusses developing an IT service strategy and dealing with customer-introduced variability. It identifies 5 categories of variability: arrival, request, capability, effort, and subjective preference. For each category, it describes the classic IT approach, the challenge for IT, and the resulting impact. It notes that customers expect value when outsourcing and that dealing with variability requires addressing customer value expectations to avoid dramatic shifts that compound issues.
This presentation was used to obtain funding to refresh 50% of the desktop inventory (~1100 units) in FY11 and obtain support for increasing utilization of existing assets through improved computer lab scheduling.
This is a companion to the written Application Plan (Available on request). The presentation outlines the main elements of an application road map aimed at realizing the vision of a shared services model for Froedtert and Community Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
This presentation depicts the comprehensive tiered support model developed for the implementation of Epic at Froedtert and Community Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The model demonstrates the relationship between hospital based support, informatics support, and technical support by IT. This approach was determined to be optimal in balancing the clinical requirements with the optimal technical support for the users.
Outlines the IT project Request process supported by the SharePoint file and Budget From also in SlideShare. follows the model outlined in previous uploads on IT governance and Portfolio Management
IT Project Portfolio Planning Using ExcelJerry Bishop
To provide a simple and transparent paper-based method for setting up an IT project portfolio using Excel.
Excel Workbook for this presentation also in my Slideshare uploads.
Desktop Management Using Microsoft SCCMJerry Bishop
Overview of how one college took control of its desktop environment using Microsoft's SCCM for imaging and improved user satisfaction, quality, and reduced support demands and costs.
This presentation is intended to assist CIO's with setting up a formal IT Governance model for their college or university. There are two companion files also in Slideshare linked at the end of an IT Governance Committee Charter and an IT Project Governance Guideline.
This is a presentation developed by Julia Loughran, ThoughtLink, Inc. for the Washington DC Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). It was presented on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Silver Spring, MD.
Creating Value Beyond the Firm's Boundaries: Networks, Social Media, and Virt...Robin Teigland
A presentation on networks, social media, and virtual worlds I made for a group of Swedish journalists as well as the Swedish Public Relations Association (Sveriges Informationsförening) in April 2010.
Third Industrial Revolution? Creating value beyond the firm's boundariesRobin Teigland
My presentation at the Network for Organizational Researcher in Norway (http://neonnet.no/Neondagen/index.html) in November 2009 as well as for Ånge County in Sweden March 2010
The document discusses how to future-proof one's career in a rapidly changing world. It provides 6 rules: 1) traditional careers are dead and job tenure is now only 4 years on average, 2) an ever-growing skillset is your greatest asset as the jobs of the future cannot yet be imagined, 3) you must become a self-starter rather than relying on mentors, 4) small, agile teams can have a big impact with new technologies lowering barriers to creation, 5) you will need to wear many hats and shift between creative and administrative roles, and 6) lifelong learning is essential to inherit the future as the world changes drastically.
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Knowledge workers are now untethered,
able to perform tasks anywhere at any
time. What do the best of them want from
your organization? by Tammy Johns and
Lynda Gratton
Spotlight
If you wanted to find three decades of the evolution
of knowledge work encapsulated in a single career,
Heidi McCulloch’s would be a good one to consider.
As a liberal arts graduate, McCulloch started out
working in corporate marketing departments and
then moved to an advertising agency, becoming an
outside service provider to companies like the ones
where she’d previously worked. After starting her
family, she stepped away from that world and took
on an entrepreneurial challenge: restoring and sell-
ing a historic inn. She came back to agency work a
few years later and rose to vice president by playing
specialized roles on global project teams. And now?
She’s on to new ventures. She is an independent
The Third Wave
Of Virtual Work
artwork Jules de Balincourt
Big Globe Painting, 2012
Oil and acrylic on panel, 90" x 96"
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consultant, and in July 2012 she created a “boutique
collaborative workspace” in downtown Toronto for
people like her. It’s an oasis for mobile knowledge
workers, who can do their jobs from anywhere but
who gravitate to where they can do them best—in the
company of other creative people engaged in work
that matters to them.
To a career planner, McCulloch’s might seem like
an erratic path. For us, as longtime observers of work-
ers and their relationship to workplaces, it reflects a
progression. In studying the dramatic changes that
have taken place since the 1980s, we have discerned
three major waves in the “virtualization” of knowl-
edge work. They developed for different reasons, and
they are all still moving forward. McCulloch seems to
have caught each one.
In this article we describe how each wave came
about through a confluence of shifting employee pri-
orities, evolving employer imperatives, and emerg-
ing communications and collaboration technolo-
gies. With experts projecting that within a few years,
more than 1.3 billion people will work virtually—that
is, through rich electronic connections from sites of
their choosing—it is important to understand the
transformation under way.
dor serving a company, to set up a one-person shop
instead. It also enabled marginalized talent—stay-
at-home parents, caregivers, retirees, students—to
enter the labor market. Services typically provided
in this way included graphic design, report writing,
translation, and transcription. As companies con-
tracted with virtual freelancers for discrete tasks that
weren’t reliant on real-time collaboration, both sides
gained flexibility.
For many workers, the option to be hired as an
independent contractor was a godsend—it meant
they no longer had to compromise every other
demand of their daytime exist ...
Nick Hodge is an expert on social computing and Web 2.0. The document discusses the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, characterized by new technologies and user-generated content. Key aspects of Web 2.0 include blogging, social networks, user comments, and tagging/folksonomy. Emerging careers related to social computing include digital community specialist and online community leader. The challenges of adopting social computing tools in businesses are also addressed.
Do More. Do things that were previously impossible!Tim O'Reilly
My keynote at SxSW Interactive on March 9, 2018. I tackle the job of the entrepreneur to redraw the map, and not to accept the idea that technology will put people out of work rather than creating new kinds of prosperity. I try to provide a call to action to throw off the shackles of the old world and to build a new one. So many companies play defense. Cut costs, watch the competition, follow best practices. Great entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk play offense. They see the world with fresh eyes, taking off the blinders that keep companies using technology to make slight improvements to existing products and practices, rather than imagining the world as it could be, given the new capabilities that technology has given us.
NASA CoECI Presentaion on Crowdsourcing and ChallengesSteve Rader
The document discusses how NASA is harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to solve engineering problems. It outlines that NASA is using online challenges and competitions posted on its NASA Innovation Pavilion website to engage a global community of over 350,000 solvers. These challenges seek innovative solutions for problems like detecting asteroids or monitoring brain pressure in a non-invasive way. NASA has found success applying this approach, with one challenge receiving over 2,800 registrants and another improving an asteroid detection algorithm by 15%. Crowdsourcing allows NASA to leverage diverse perspectives to find more solutions.
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林佑澂 創辦人│未來產房
Daniel Lin is the founder and CEO of FutureWard. He is a genetic engineer, educator, producer, entrepreneur, and bridge builder who is passionate about activating the innovation and startup ecosystems in Taiwan and connecting it to the rest of the world. He started one of the largest and most comprehensive makerspaces in Asia in 2014, and is now leading the strategic relationships with corporations, associations, and local governments to harness Taiwan's technical and manufacturing expertise to help solve intractable problems at FutureWard's Central coworking space.In an earlier life, Dan was conducting cancer research at Johns Hopkins Medical School, managing laboratories and testing immunotherapies. Upon his return to Taiwan, he segued into education. Writing and editing textbooks and testing programs before developing an English language learning program on TVBS. Before founding FutureWard, Dan was the international business development officer for Panel Group.
The document discusses the changing nature of work. It notes that jobs that existed 10 or 20 years ago may not exist now due to technological changes. The future of work is described as transparent, with productivity directly measurable; flat, allowing people to work remotely from anywhere in the world; competitive, with education available online and work outsourced globally; and on demand, with independent contractors coming together temporarily for projects. The future workplace will rely more on virtual teams and be less tied to permanent careers or locations.
The future of work is uncertain but will likely involve more transparency, flat and virtual structures, competitiveness, and on-demand work. Jobs and industries will continue to change rapidly as new technologies emerge. Success will depend on individuals distinguishing themselves through skills, innovation, and the ability to work virtually across borders in competitive global marketplaces. The future workplace may involve less traditional careers and more independent contracting and virtual team-based project work.
The Future of Work - Il Futuro del LavoroSTUDIO BARONI
The future of work is uncertain but will likely involve more transparency, flat and virtual structures, competitiveness, and on-demand work. Jobs and industries will continue to change rapidly as new technologies emerge. Success will depend on continually gaining skills, competing globally, and working virtually in flexible and competitive environments. Individuals will have more freedom and power than ever to determine their own earning potential based on their unique talents and abilities.
The document discusses the changing nature of work. It notes that jobs that existed 10 or 20 years ago may not exist now due to technological changes. The future of work is described as transparent, with productivity directly measurable; flat, allowing people to work remotely from anywhere in the world; competitive, with education available online and work outsourced globally; and on demand, with individuals taking on contract work rather than long-term careers. The future workplace will rely more on virtual teams and bring greater freedom and income potential based on skills rather than location.
1) The document discusses how social media and virtual worlds can enable new forms of value creation through knowledge networking and leveraging external resources.
2) It argues that organizations need to open themselves up and encourage the use of social media to strengthen relationships both internally and externally in order to gain competitive advantages like innovation and brand reputation.
3) Emerging trends like digital natives, immersive internet, virtual goods sales, and mobility of labor suggest a potential third industrial revolution is underway that will revolutionize many professions through social and virtual platforms.
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem solving and production model that revolutionized the internet and mobile market at present. It turns the customers into designer and marketers. The practice of Crowdsourcing is transforming the web and giving rise to a new field. Today the leading enterprises are embracing the next paradigm shift in the distribution of work by outsourcing to the crowd in the cloud. Everyday millions of people make all kind of voluntary online contribution. With the number of people online approaching 3 billion by 2016 and projected to reach 5 billion by 2020, new workforce has emerged that are now used for different purposes. Available on-demand this workforce has abundant capacity and the expertise knowledge to perform work from simple to complex and solve problems and grand challenges. This paper gives an introduction to Crowdsourcing, its theoretical grounding, model and examples with case study. In this paper we show that Crowdsourcing can be applied to wide variety of problems and that it raises numerous interesting technical and social challenges. Finally this paper proposes an agenda for using Crowdsourcing in NLP.
The future of work will be transparent, flat, competitive, and on demand. Jobs will no longer be tied to a single lifelong career or location. Employees' productivity will be directly measurable, and competition for jobs will come from around the world. Success will depend on standing out through unique skills and talents, with individuals joining project teams as needed. The future workplace will be collaborative yet virtual, with remote and flexible work becoming the norm.
The document discusses how organizations can leverage networks and social media to improve performance. It notes that knowledge is growing rapidly and organizations need to change internally at the same or greater rate to keep up. It recommends that organizations develop internal and external networks, leverage social media, cultivate an open knowledge sharing culture, and develop employees' network leadership skills to innovate, attract talent, and adapt to changing conditions.
Web 2.0 technologies like social media and crowdsourcing are expanding globalization by breaking down barriers between individuals, companies, and countries. Crowdsourcing harnesses the collective intelligence of online communities by tapping into networks of people with different backgrounds and expertise. For example, Goldcorp used crowdsourcing to discover new mining targets by offering a prize to solvers around the world, connecting a Canadian company with applicants from 50 countries. Wikipedia also connects people globally to share knowledge across language barriers. Crowdsourcing campaigns like MyBarackObama.com engage online communities worldwide in grassroots efforts. These technologies reduce the digital divide by giving more equal access to information.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
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Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
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Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...Jeffrey Haguewood
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
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5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
5. CROWDSOURCING The act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call. WikiPedia CLOUD COMPUTING WITH PEOPLE
6. WIKINOMICS Describes how mass collaboration and open systems are reinventing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. nGenera
18. Only good workers were able to continue working after the first few days. Top 3% of most prolific workers provided over 40% of trusted work. Top 20% of workers provided over 80% of trusted work.
25. GWAP Game played on a computer that serves some purpose for the people setting up the game by harnessing human abilities in an entertaining setting. Usually applied to activities that are almost trivial for humans to perform that have stymied computers.
49. Yahoo! Answers WikiAnswers Askville NowNow Yedda Lycos IQ Live QnA Trulia Voices Wondir RediffQnA Fluther Wis.dm Answerbag Oyogi Dizzay KnowBrainers The Answer Bank PointAsk AllExperts Able2Know AskMe Helpdesk What Should I Say? Simply Explained Ask a Librarian Askeet! look no further Say-so Grupthink
Clip is 3:17 www.tweenbots.comKacieKinzer has done several excursions of “robots” which are autonomous and drive only in straight lines. Destinations information and a request for help getting the robot there are on the flag.
Presentation is about the emerging model of using the “CROWD” for commerce and social good.Cloud SourcingMicro LaborClick WorkerDigital WorkerCrowdFunding
For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design[1] anddistributed 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).
SETI is perhaps the first use of crowdsourcing on a large scale. It relied on grid computing technology to enlist the help of 1000’s of people and their idle computers to search for extra terrestrials using a screensaver program. Among the top participants are large numbers who have been participating since the inception in 1999.1,000,000 + PARTICPANTS
Wikipedia is another example of using the crowd to build an encyclopedia through open collaboration and self regulation.
Common uses of cloud labor and the popular sites used to present the workAcknowledging the issues of low wages is important as many people feel this is exploitive.Later we will cover the misuse and abuse occurring with this model.
Perhaps the most well known crowdsourcing model operated by Amazon.com. The Turk, the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a fake chess-playing machineconstructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax.[1]Supports programmatically creating HIT’s thru API’s.
HIT’s focus on tasks requiring human intelligence that are difficult to computerize. Turkers today perform tasks like transcription, image tagging, writing, SEO, and social media activities. There has been lots of criticism related to the relatively low wages page for HIT’s. Began as a tool for searching for missing persons. More on that later.
More on abusingTurkers later
Mobile application related work with ~30,000 handsets participating, currently 421 projectsTesting, usability, etc
Members pay a nominal fee to participate which is offset by earnings for participation in order to increase reliability and overcome UK laws. Members are given a limited number of alerts to use to prevent abuseRewards: A reward of £1000 pounds per month for the Viewer who has made the best contribution to the prevention or detection of a crime.A usage reward for time spent helping the community by monitoring live CCTV footage A reward for recommending a friend Recognition for successful feedback
75,000 clickworkers globally
Clearinghouse or Brokerage of crowdsourcing services
http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/12/good-work-knows-no-boundaries/Good work knows no boundaries – blog illustrating quality control approach.Only good workers were able to continue working after the first few days.A flood of bad work from specific geographies, related to the spikes in throughput at certain hours.This graph demonstrates a known behavior in online tasks, where many workers attempt only a small amount of work before abandoning a given task. Our quality-control mechanism requires workers to demonstrate accuracy before it accepts their work.Focusing on the top 20 percent of most prolific workers, we see that one-half came from India while another one-third came from the U.S. Other countries provided the remaining workers. While it is true that the vast majority of untrusted workers in this job, who collectively provided relatively few judgments, came from India, it is also true that the country’s workers make up half of the most prolific workers and provided two-thirds of all trusted work.The solution to improving the efficiency of this job, then, is not the crude choice of excluding workers from certain geographies. Rather, we can discourage bad workers by increasing the burden of entry, so that only workers with an interest in completing more than a few judgments will bother with the job.
Form processing: Microtask offers a cost-efficient, scalable and reliable way to integrate high volumes of hand-written forms directly into your existing database.Archive digitization: We offer a cost-efficient way to refine archive material. We use distributed human intelligence for advanced multilingual text recognition, structural analysis and assigning keywords.Able to parse a single task so no one worker can see all of a person’s sensitive data to protect privacy and security
Video 2:37MIT project
The movie “The Age of Stupid” used crowdfunding and raised $1.2M selling shares to ~620+ ordinary people People’s Premiere which sold “Web Screening” rights on ability to pay allowing all profits to be retained to “Inconvenient Truth with Peronality”
These tasks can include labelling images to improve web searching, transcription of ancient text (where OCR software faces a script they are not optimized for and degraded or damaged images) and any activity requiring common sense or human experience.
http://funsat.eecs.umich.edu/Solves many complex practical problems from various domains reduce to SAT (bolean functions): logic synthesis, manufacturing test generation, model checking, circuit routing, equivalence checking, software verification and so on. Satisfiability is the problem of determining if the variables of a given Boolean formula can be assigned in such a way as to make the formula evaluate to TRUE. Equally important is to determine whether no such assignments exist, which would imply that the function expressed by the formula is identically FALSE for all possible variable assignmentsRulesFunSAT provides a graphical game representation for Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems in conjunctive normal form.Click the rectangular buttons to change the colors of the bubbles in the board. The buttons are 3-state: GRAY is unassigned, YELLOW is false, BLUE is true.Goal: Turn all bubbles GREEN. For a bubble to turn green, at least one of the literals in the corresponding clause must be true. If all are false, the bubble will turn RED; otherwise, it will be GRAY.When bubbles are gray, the shade of gray is suggestive of many literals are still unassigned in that clause: the more the unassigned literals the literal the shade of gray.Holding down a right click on buttons and bubbles highlights dependencies. BLUE highlighting indicates a direct relationship between clause and variable; YELLOW highlighting indicates a relationship between a clause and the complement of the variable. You can also see the highlighting by hovering over bubbles and buttons if you select 'Highlight on Hover' at the bottom of the screen.
Cargengie MellonGames With A Purpose
ESP Game – partners look at same image and type words until they match based on what they see without using taboo words.
Squigl – partners trace objects and compare results for percentage of match to earn points
Open Challenges connect seekers with solvers to address needs of creative, technical or human capacity problems. Solvers can work alone or in collaboration groups that are formal or organically formed.Saves on time and costs and often produces better results than limiting to ones own employees.In all systems there are mechanisms to set up profiles of your skills, interests and history or participation which are used to produce a reputation score. The history and reputation are then used by recommendation engines to suggest other challenges or activities.
Can choose filters by categories or nature of the challenges. Ideation, theoretical etc…
Most sites require just a few clicks to get started posting challenges or to respond to them.
Open Innovation and Open Challenges have been adopted for social causes and use by non-profits and governments.
1SKYbecame a collaborative national campaign for strong federal action to tackle global climate change and invest in building the clean energy economy of the future. Now one of the largest national climate campaigns in the country, 1Sky works to combine the force of 643 allied organizations, 203,500 committed climate advocates, 4,256 volunteer leaders in 50 states, and our own experienced team to effect change in the nation's capital.
TheExtraordinaries, started by the founder of 1SKY.comJust a couple clicks and your are able to submit requests or to offer assistance
Non-profit for digital work to marginalized workersSamaguardImage and Text Content ModerationSamascribeText and Numerical Data Entry and Audio/Video TranscriptionSamaproofData Mining, Enrichment, and Business Listing Verification
CrowdVoice is a user-powered service that tracks voices of protest from around the world. Raise your voice for causes you support with information you submit.
Women’s Rights in Iraq
KIVA.org combines microlending with crowdfunding for social purposes. Choose sectors, gender and other param’s to search for people to lend to.Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending.
Open Challenges connect seekers with solvers to address needs of creative, technical or human capacity problems.Challenges can be Creative, technical or scientific. Can be ideation or solutions.Solvers can work alone or in collaboration groups that are formal or organically formed.
Other Free Q&A sitesPay sites also exist as do specialty sitesFaceBook coming online with Q&A as well
$0.50 to $0.65 is common low end rates for Facebook or Twitter related actions with premiums.
Quora Q&A contributor using Mturk to pay people to “Up Vote” his contributions.
Mechanical Turk abuses to elevate (spam) social media metrics on facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Yelp, and othersMany pay the most per HIT but often don’t end up paying. Challenging Amazon to police Mturk.
In total, 757 out of the 1733 new requesters posted at least a one spam HIT, and 552 accounts were posting only spam HITs. 56.46% of the new requesters post no spam HITs. This nice separation indicates that it is easy to separate spam requesters from legitimate ones. There are not that many requesters that post both spam HITs and legitimate ones.
Advise for those considering a career as a clickworker: set up dedicated persona’s with separate accoutns for them and perhaps even separate ones for each site you work with.