Crowd Forum is a social network and wiki where people who share an interest in crowdsourcing and open innovation can share ideas and learn about this emerging phenomenon. Crowd Forumwas created by the founders of Microengagement, a consulting practice that helps companies leverage the power of their business/brand constituents "the crowd" to develop products, accurately predict environmental, product, and sales outcomes and create new levels of customer intimacy by involving customers in the business processes.
What is crowdsourcing?Crowdsourcing?
Our view of crowdsourcing is: "A"A growing phenomon that describes the process of gathering groups of people together and using their untapped knowledge to create something of value."value."
Crowd Forum servesServesthreeThreeprimaryPrimaryaudiences:Audiences:
Business leaders who are looking to improve their results through crowdsourcing and share what they have learned with others.
Researchers, the media and general public who can use Crowd Forum as an educational tool.
Crowdsourcing practitioners and consultants who share tools & techniques and network with each other.
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Case Studies
Goldcorp
TheChallengeCrowd Strikes It RichGoldcorp - a Canadian mining company – increased its market value from $100 million to $9 billion for $575,000 invested in the “Goldcorp Challenge” to anyone who could use its own publicly offered mining data to find new sources of the precious metal.NetflixPrizeGoldcorp Challenge
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Learn how Netflix improved its recommendation service 8.5% by offering a $1 million prize. You will be surprised who is in the lead. Netflix Prize
Take a deeper look into how crowdsourced organizations outperform traditional business models in terms of product development & return on investment. The Economics of Crowdsourcing
In the news:News
Could Wikia SearchJimmydo toWalesGoogleofandWikipediaYahoo!latestwhatprojectWikipediaisdidanto Britanica?
An open source search engine.engine is poised to threaten the dominance of Google and Yahoo! in the multi billion dollar search engine market. Wikia has indexed 30 million Websites, and is rolling out a set of editing features that lets searchers reorder, add, remove, rate, annotate, and comment on results.Wikia Search
Everyone'sSmithsonianaTurnsHistoriantoNowthe Crowd to Identify Photos
How the Internet - and you - will make history deeper, richer, and more accurate. Boston GlobeGlobe. Everyone's a Historian Now
