CROWDSOURCING

CROWDSOURCING

The 5 types of crowdsourcing
1. Crowd creation
  1. Leveraging the crowd's skill in creating new assets for
2. Crowdfunding
  1. A multitude of people pay a small amount of money to reach a goal.
3. Crowdvoting
  1. Uses the community's ability to organize, filter, and rank content.
4. Microwork
  1. Users doing small tasks that computers wouldn't be suited for.
5. Macrowork
  1. Users doing more demanding tasks for a longer time.
Pros and Cons
1. Microwork
  1. Quickly completing something that would otherwise take an unreasonable amount of time (+)
  2. Quality of completed tasks is questionable and very hard to check. (-)
2. Crowdfunding
  1. Budget depends on consumer interest. (-)
  2. It's a quick way to raise money. (+)
3. Crowd creation
  1. Meritocracy-based: Those who make the best content are paid the most money.
  2. Content is solely reliant on the creators. (-)
4. Macrowork
  1. Quality work (+)
  2. Requires special skills to be completed (-)
5. Crowdvoting
  1. May not represent the whole of the people (-)
  2. Represents voters effectively (+)
Bibliography
1. http://www.optimizationgroup.com/how-to-determine-which-type-of-crowdsourcing-is-right-for-you/
2. https://sites.google.com/site/crowdsourcewiki/home/forms-of-cs/crowd-voting
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing#Macrowork
4. http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4025-what-is-crowdsourcing.html
Who would use which type of crowdsourcing?
1. Crowd creation
  1. Businesses (Small and Large)
2. Microwork
  1. Researchers
  2. Programmers
3. Macrowork
  1. Businesses (Small and Large)
  2. Inexperienced people
  3. Those without the time or patience to fix the problem themselves.
4. Crowdvoting
  1. Crowdfunding
    1. Small businesses
    2. Aspiring creators
  2. Talent show performers
  3. Apps
Relationships between crowdsourcing types
1. Crowdvoting
  1. Crowd creation
    1. Both of their products or results are dependent on people's preferences. Crowdvoting is choosing the favorite, whether it be a person, topic, or otherwise.
  2. Crowdfunding
    1. Both receive payment from those who also want a product in return. Crowdfunding is mostly invention based, while crowd creation is more design and art based.
  3. Microwork
    1. Both are easy tasks. Crowdvoting is just showing your opinions while microwork gives simple instructions on what to do.
  4. Macrowork
    1. Both rely on a few people out of many to accomplish a task. Crowdvoting differs by being about the voter's opinions about something, while macrowork is about completing a project or complex task.
2. Macrowork
  1. Microwork
    1. Both use the general populus to do what a computer cannot, but macrowork needs special skills to complete while microwork does not.
  2. Crowdfunding
    1. Both contribute a project being finished, but the difference is that crowdfunding contributes by paying while macrowork uses a person's skills.
  3. Crowd creation
    1. Both use their skills to accomplish a task for others, but macrowork usually takes much longer than crowd creation to complete.
  4. Crowdvoting
    1. Both rely on a few people out of many to accomplish a task. Crowdvoting differs by being about the voter's opinions about something, while macrowork is about completing a project or complex task.
3. Microwork (I stopped myself from typing microsoft at least 30 times)
  1. Macrowork
    1. Both are focused on completing a task, although macrowork is more complex and microwork is simpler.
  2. Crowdfunding
    1. Both rely on many people to reach their goals, yet crowdfunding is monetary based while microwork is based on unskilled tasks.
  3. Crowd creation
    1. Both end up contributing to a goal through what they provide. Crowd creation is largely art or invention based while microwork is categorization based.
  4. Crowdvoting
    1. Both are easy tasks. Crowdvoting is just showing your opinions while microwork gives simple instructions on what to do.
4. Crowdfunding
  1. Macrowork
    1. Both use money to reach their goals. crowdfunding uses money to make something while macrowork uses money to pay people for their services.
  2. Microwork
    1. Both rely on large amounts of people to contribute to a project being finished. Crowdfunding relies on people to help pay for the production costs while microwork relies on people to do small tasks.
  3. Crowdvoting
    1. Both are dependent on people's interest. Crowdvoting will work regardless of how many people vote while crowdfunding needs a minimum amount of money from people to work.
  4. Crowd creation
    1. Both receive payment from those who also want a product in return. Crowdfunding is mostly invention based, while crowd creation is more design and art based.
5. Crowd creation
  1. Macrowork
    1. Both use their skills to accomplish a task for others, but crowd creation gives the person a design while macrowork is usually finishing a task.
  2. Microwork
    1. Both end up contributing to a goal through what they provide. Crowd creation is largely art or invention based while microwork is categorization based.
  3. Crowdfunding
    1. Both receive payment from those who also want a product in return. Crowdfunding is mostly invention based, while crowd creation is more design and art based.
  4. Crowdvoting
    1. Both are used by only small amount of people. The difference is that crowd creation is art oriented, while crowdvoting is choosing the favorite, whether it be a person, topic, or otherwise.

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