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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetJeff -
I have a very good friend who found out similar news about his 4 yr old son about 12 months ago; his son actually has aspergers. Since then they have hired several specialists to help their son in his growth process including therapists and nutritionists. Thus far it was worked wonders and they believe that through more therapy he will ultimately live a very normal life.
The moral of the story is that although they do not have this whole autism thing worked out yet - they have made several advancements. From what little I personally know, given the you figured this out so early it would seem that things look very good for you boy named Finn. My heart goes out to you as I have two young boys myself. Good luck!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThe real interesting thing about this move from TomTom is that they "trusted" the crowd to help influence their product while business is going well versus a desperate move to stay alive. I liken this example to Gold Corp who went to crowdsourcing as a last resort and it ended up paying off http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2007/id20070201_774736.htm
However if business was going well for Gold Corp I would guess that they would have been unlikely to turn to crowdsourcing as a foundation for growth.From a market perspective this would appear to be the furtherance of a trend that crowdsourcing should be the cornerstone of growth for companies versus the last gasp of air. The problem that the world faces is that that companies must first move out of the "cone-of-silence" and trust the crowd to help grow their business.
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI'd prefer to mention the OpenStreetMap project. Much more sophisticated, because the crowd is not reduced to some users of devices for navigation.
See http://www.openstreetmap.org
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Jeff,
Sad to hear of Finn's difficulties--and it sounds as if you have a somewhat better idea of things. Time, however, will probably reveal more....
Having had a personal blog for a number of years, well before I ever started shooting my mouth off about media, I found that being transparent and writing about difficulties in my life brought me in touch with people (maybe not a crowd, but people) who helped and supported me through those difficulties. The information they shared has been important, but I found that basic human empathy went a long way towards helping me accept and deal with those things in my life.
You will, I'm sure, be surprised by what you encounter as you blog in a new way. More importantly, you will touch, and be touched in a way that you may have never expected. It's a new journey...best of luck to you as you venture forth...
Tish
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi Jeff, I really appreciate the fact that you have managed to offer an up-date. I say this because I have been and I am still there in a world where there are no definitive answers, just the unfolding of a very personal journey to an unknown place that will be most probably continue to be unknown to some degree.
“Somewhere on the autism spectrum” is a very fair diagnosis. Definitive diagnoses are very difficult to arrive at early on in the developmental process. As Finn matures and traditional milestones are reached more specific observations can be made.
I applaud you for being able to share so early on the deeply personal process. Emotional chaos and myriad other elements will rein. The heart in the mouth feeling will then subside enough to allow your insights gained from treading the path to enable you to see much more clearly. You will then manage to sort out the parameters.
As sad as it is, our contemporary culture encapsulates disabilities to certain groups rather than acknowledging that we are all afflicted to some degree. I strongly encourage you to seek other families who might be treading a similar path.
Great hope resides in the fact that one can with time find a productive equilibrium that enables normalcy to support the oncoming challenges.
Warm regards, Alan
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI'm quite confused that the _final_ diagnosis is "somewhere on the autism-spectrum". Wouldn't that be one of the first assumptions any therapist would at least take into consideration? Didn't you visited four?
How is this relevant to the crowdsourcing aspect? Well, I never would have given you the advise to let Finn check for autism/asperger-syndrome, because, well, it's so obvious!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetVenkat: For work I use the internet primarily for email and research. I access the intranet of some clients (using SharePoint?), when I coach a team (could be 20 or 30 of us) preparing an oral proposal for a large contract. I have a website, through which I produce a monthly ezine. And I've just recently started a blog. I've also recently put some energy into linked-in.
I couldn't do my work without email. For my book alone, I worked remotely with a coauthor, exchanging emails and draft chapters. (I did much of my research on the internet.) I've never met my agent face to face. (She's in LA, I'm in San Diego.) I work with my editor, publisher, and publicist (all in NYC), and with a pr agency (somewhere in Florida) almost entirely through email. And now I'm working with another set of people in London, since a UK publisher bought the foreign rights.
I guess I'd doing quite a bit through the internet. I just feel inept doing it. Like a stranger in a strange land, I'm trying to figure out the lay of the land and the rules.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAlan:
On-demand technology is pretty pervasive, so I wouldn't restrict the description to those whose 'foreground' work relies on cloud apps. Think about background stuff like IM, VoIP etc. These are cloud delivered and are the canvas on which the other work is done (whether it is client side MS-Word, or SaaSy Google Docs. And don't forget VPNs. The very fact of going through a VPN I think makes you a cloudworker, since your network position is obscured and virtualized :)
Chris: your post makes me wonder. When enough team members go 'virtual' is the nominal 'center' of things different (other than the fact that you are hard-wired inside the firewall as opposed to VPNed in). Socially, if you have a distributed team and the rest of your workgroup is VPNing in, your own personal work culture also becomes cloudy.
Venkat
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetOr this: (CFW) Cloud-Feature-Worker: Nicholas Carr suggests: “We certainly need a nifty abbreviation for the merging of cloud services into traditional PC software, so let me suggest CaaF, for Cloud-as-a-Feature.
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/11/the_cloud_as_a.phpAlan
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetChris, you work from home, but do you use cloud apps, non personal PC based usage, as a central part of the work you do?
I wonder if the term Cloudworker will become a commonly used term and your point, a mature professional will most likely hesitate to use the term, is well taken. Sad as it might be, you will most probably be left using the term self employed!
“What happens when on-demand technology meets the crowd?” Jeff, does the distinction “the power of work-anywhere-anytime technology” really suffice to be called a cloudworker?
I would suggest that unless cloud apps, rather than personal PC usage, that are available are being predominately used to support ones employment/business, the term might not make sense because it is too loose a definition.
Every PC user is now using the cloud, or should one say the internet, to some degree.
On the other end of the spectrum, this term “white trash data center customers” is interesting!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/02/microsoft_container_data_center/Alan
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetChris - maybe you would be considered a "cloudwanderer" for the time being!!!!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWhen I first saw a cloud used in computer network diagrams to represent the net, I didn't like it. It seemed nebulous (pun intended), hard to pin down, insubstantial. Now, I kind of like the image precisely because it can't be confined or set in stone. I could warm to the term "cloudworker," although I doubt I will ever describe myself that way to my clients (mostly business executives).
I'm not a telecommuter, because I'm not, in Jim's terms, a company employee working from home. But I don't think I qualify as a cloudworker. I use the net primarily as a tool and as a resource, and I'm only beginning to see it as an interactive community. Is there a term for someone like me, somewhere between a telecommuter and a cloudworker?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetJeff, As of this writing, JPGmag.com is on the precipice of profitability...having now secured advertising from almost all major camera equipment companies as well as companies like H - P, Epson, Adobe, etc...and the core of our success? Keeping vigil to managing, organizing and directing the community ..so they can create work they vote as being the best...(and it is!)...and then we publish the magazine of their work thereafter...we've had some very serious interest from the big publishing companies to acquire our web platform that permits this kind of collaboration among a community...because, they can imagine what this is worth to their magazines if they could finally integrate the web in a meaningful way with their readership in to the magazine...in fact, to permit them to participate in creating it? The first one will have cracked the code on having this kind of meaningful relationship between print and web...and once one company "breaks through" the others will have to follow or be left far far behind.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGood point. That actually makes a lot of sense that there would be micro-celebrityhood as that really goes the concept of the wisdom of crowds; you have those who are very educated on a topic and those that are less educated and the combination is the "wisdom".
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHmm... interesting that you bring up anonymity Jim. That's one of the trickier things to analyze and I worried about it for a while. My current position: anonymity depends on where you are looking from. Jeff has anonymity in the definition of crowdsourcing, which makes sense if you are looking at it from the point of view of a CEO or something.
But from "inside" the subculture of a particular crowd, there is a lot of micro-celebrityhood going on I think. But the basic structure is still crowd. I think that captures things more accurately than Seth Godin's notion of 'Tribe' (which he tried to frame as a different entity, but his concept doesn't hang together well).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI love "cloudworker" although the term is probably bigger than the old term of "telecommuter". Where telecommuter is a term used for an employee of a company who simply works from home I see cloudworker as term used when you have several almost anonymous contributors to a much larger effort. You can almost picture a company like GM who allows credentialed people to "clock in" at will to contribute to an effort and the contributors get paid for their time.
Interesting.
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi,
For instant free collaboration on documents, try : http://www.showdocument.com
An instant live collaboration used to quickly show documents to friends and colleagues.
It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live
All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetJeff,
Tks for this article, I am reading your book (again)...that should tell you that I am deep into the topic of crowdsourcing and I believe strongly in the future of mass collaboration. The downturn will definitely make people consider the low cost benefits of sourcing quality work from the global community.
If you get a chance, go over & check out www.hugocreate.com as well...this is another fun, small (but extremely global) fragrance crowdsourcing project.
Have a great weekend,
--Ryan
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetIt seems Devex.com took your editorial advice!
The USAID Development 2.0 Challenge is their top story today. It's available here:
http://www.devex.com/articles/usaid-challenge-exposes-development-community-to-tech-innovation
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThanks for the link Jeff. Mine is a work in progress - lots still to add.
Christoph Schmitz has done the same thing for Norway.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet@Kyle: Well, I think to say there were *no* valiant CJs out there in the early hours is demonstrably wrong, though I appreciate your skepticism. Most famously, a resident named Vinu posted some of the first images from the attacks (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/26/india-first-photographs-of-mumbai-blasts-on-flickr/), and the Mumbai Metroblog did a lot of early coverage. But your larger point is well taken, and perhaps I'm guilty of the very wrong-headed self-congratulation in equating quantity with quality.
