CROWDSOURCING

CROWDSOURCING

1. The 5 types of crowdsourcing

   • Crowd creation
     • Leveraging the crowd's skill in creating new assets for
   • Crowdfunding
     • A multitude of people pay a small amount of money to reach a goal.
   • Crowdvoting
     • Uses the community's ability to organize, filter, and rank content.
   • Microwork
     • Users doing small tasks that computers wouldn't be suited for.
   • Macrowork
     • Users doing more demanding tasks for a longer time.

2. Pros and Cons

   • Microwork
     • Quickly completing something that would otherwise take an unreasonable amount of time (+)
     • Quality of completed tasks is questionable and very hard to check. (-)
   • Crowdfunding
     • Budget depends on consumer interest. (-)
     • It's a quick way to raise money. (+)
   • Crowd creation
     • Meritocracy-based: Those who make the best content are paid the most money.
     • Content is solely reliant on the creators. (-)
   • Macrowork
     • Quality work (+)
     • Requires special skills to be completed (-)
   • Crowdvoting
     • May not represent the whole of the people (-)
     • Represents voters effectively (+)

3. Bibliography

   • http://www.optimizationgroup.com/how-to-determine-which-type-of-crowdsourcing-is-right-for-you/
   • https://sites.google.com/site/crowdsourcewiki/home/forms-of-cs/crowd-voting
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing#Macrowork
   • http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4025-what-is-crowdsourcing.html

4. Who would use which type of crowdsourcing?

   • Crowd creation
     • Businesses (Small and Large)
   • Microwork
     • Researchers
     • Programmers
   • Macrowork
     • Businesses (Small and Large)
     • Inexperienced people
     • Those without the time or patience to fix the problem themselves.
   • Crowdvoting
     • Crowdfunding
       • Small businesses
       • Aspiring creators
     • Talent show performers
     • Apps

5. Relationships between crowdsourcing types

   • Crowdvoting
     • Crowd creation
       • 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.
     • Crowdfunding
       • 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.
     • Microwork
       • Both are easy tasks. Crowdvoting is just showing your opinions while microwork gives simple instructions on what to do.
     • Macrowork
       • 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.
   • Macrowork
     • Microwork
       • Both use the general populus to do what a computer cannot, but macrowork needs special skills to complete while microwork does not.
     • Crowdfunding
       • Both contribute a project being finished, but the difference is that crowdfunding contributes by paying while macrowork uses a person's skills.
     • Crowd creation
       • Both use their skills to accomplish a task for others, but macrowork usually takes much longer than crowd creation to complete.
     • Crowdvoting
       • 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.
   • Microwork (I stopped myself from typing microsoft at least 30 times)
     • Macrowork
       • Both are focused on completing a task, although macrowork is more complex and microwork is simpler.
     • Crowdfunding
       • Both rely on many people to reach their goals, yet crowdfunding is monetary based while microwork is based on unskilled tasks.
     • Crowd creation
       • Both end up contributing to a goal through what they provide. Crowd creation is largely art or invention based while microwork is categorization based.
     • Crowdvoting
       • Both are easy tasks. Crowdvoting is just showing your opinions while microwork gives simple instructions on what to do.
   • Crowdfunding
     • Macrowork
       • Both use money to reach their goals. crowdfunding uses money to make something while macrowork uses money to pay people for their services.
     • Microwork
       • 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.
     • Crowdvoting
       • 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.
     • Crowd creation
       • 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.
   • Crowd creation
     • Macrowork
       • 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.
     • Microwork
       • Both end up contributing to a goal through what they provide. Crowd creation is largely art or invention based while microwork is categorization based.
     • Crowdfunding
       • 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.
     • Crowdvoting
       • 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.