Scalable Crowdsourcing Solutions: Outsourcing 2.0

Crowdsourcing's Center

Diet for a large Crowd: what to feed a hungry herd of workers
What kinds of work are suited to a crowd-powered model? How to break down large projects into smaller components. Examples of various applications.
Okay, so you've caught some of the buzz and you're ready to do some real Crowdsourcing. Not the volunteer kind of 'vote-on-your-favorite-idea' polling or "invent-our-next-sneaker" contests that might be termed crowdsourcing-lite.
The Future of Crowdsourcing: From Assembly Line to Virtual Teams
Avi Hoffer
Addressing criticisms of Labor Crowdsourcing. Distinctions Between crowdsourcing and 20th century assembly-line practices. Outline for a future trajectory.

Though labor Crowdsourcing is inevitable and has existed informally for a decade or more, there are critics who point out that this model is akin to building digital sweatshops for the information underclass. I believe three important aspects of labor Crowdsourcing will prevent...

Layoffs into Lemonade: crowdsourcing with former employees
Avi Hoffer
Using a crowdsourcing platform to use your former (trained) employees on an ad-hoc basis.

When first wrapping their minds around Crowdsourced labor, some employers seem hesitant to turn assignments over to an anonymous workforce ("Who are these people and how do we know they’ll do a good job?"). A copywriter I met recently equated crowdsourcing with an image of a thousand...

Curated Crowdsourcing for Business: wrangling an unruly mob
Avi Hoffer
Towards improving the quality of crowdsourced labor

Over the past year, a fair amount has been written and tweeted about the need for "curated" crowdsourcing, a fancy way of saying that there needs to be management, methods and standards to guarantee the quality of crowd-powered outsourcing. An ambiguous crowd of various skill-levels can produce...