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A Taste of NINK Crowdsourcing: The Next Generation By Ashley McConnell Last year I wrote an article for Nink on crowdsourcing, a popular technique for getting input from anonymous strangers to create product that you can turn around and sell back to them. I wrote about the principles of crowdsourcing and how a number of different communities use them to sell T-shirts, photos, and books. Even as I wrote that article, the popularity of crowdsourcing was skyrocketing. You have only to look at the popularity of Pinterest, a photo-sharing site, to see how easy it is to engage the community. All you have to do is ask, and the contributions pour in. At least, it certainly looks that way. It’s not quite that simple, of course. First, you have to ask a question that people are invested in and are interested in answering. Second, you have to have a community so that your contributors have something to feel connected to. And third, you have to give something back. Read the Oct 2012 Nink or |
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