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AudioDraft: for a better sounding business
December 21, 2010Share Here at Microtask we really believe crowdsourcing works. Ever since we started as a business, we’ve not only worked to develop our own company vision, but also tried to reach out, engage with and promote the services of our friends and competitors. Why? Because we believe the more active businesses in the crowdsourcing ecosystem are, the more the ecosystem will grow and …
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99designs, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Arts, Audiodraft, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, Disney, distributed work, Guitar Hero, The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney | 2 CommentsWinner takes it all?
August 17, 2010… down.
Recently I read a rather disturbing article on crowdsourcing. The article focused on 99designs, a community for crowdsourced web pages and logo designs.
In theory it’s great. Say you want a new identity for your company. All you do is post a design brief on the website, and then sit back and watch the submissions roll in. At the end of the process you only pay for your favorite submission.
99designs has all the mechanisms you would expect to ensure chosen work is paid …
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99designs, competition, competitive crowdsourcing, contest, creativity, crowdsourcing, CrowdSpring, design, microtask, MycroBurst, reDesignMe | 4 CommentsHeather Chaplin: gamification’s worst nightmare?
August 4, 2011Share This year has been huge for gamification. Barely a day passes without another story about it in the media, with its champions enjoying so much exposure to the spotlight they had suntans long before summer. We were no exception. Here on the blog we’ve already covered the topic from several angles: sometimes with unashamed enthusiasm (for example here , here and here …
crowd, crowdsourcing, game design, game mechanics, games, Gamification, jane mcgonigal, microwork, new york times, Non-game, Video game, videogame | Leave a commentCan you crowdsource Christmas?
December 23, 2010… IT professionals to buy for, look no further than a custom designed T-shirt from our friends at 99designs. If you’re cursed/blessed with more fashion-conscious friends, there’s now a host of crowdsourcing fashion sites, including FashionStake and (for fans of leopard print) Dream Heels. These projects give users the chance to vote for, fund and buy the latest designer creations.
If you blow your budget on T-shirts don’t worry, crowdsourcing can help out here too: Mechanical …
Do crowdsourced design contests work? You be the judge – and win!
October 4, 2010… easier than ever before.
Crowdsourcing the shirt on my back
Because we focused on 99Designs in this earlier post, it was a natural choice to run the competition. Having said this, based on our initial research, Crowdspring, designoutpost, designcrowd, MycroBurst, designcontest, and redesignme all seem to offer a great service as well.
This decision out of the way, the first step is to create the challenge, decide on a prize and provide a design brief.
As we …
