Crowdsourcing is a popular tool to get ideas, inspiration and feedbacks from other people. More and more business owner want to develop a crowdsourcing application to benefit their business. The question is HOW? Let's follow Simon Willison's presentation "Building Crowdsourcing Applications"to get some tips.
Tips for Building a Crowdsourcing Application:
Tips for Building a Crowdsourcing Application:
- Consider usability, visual design and copy-right of your application.
- To be Flexible-Users may not share the same goal with you. They may use the application in many different ways.
- Encouragement-Something like medals and points will motivate users to do almost everything.
- Don’t be afraid- Even flawed systems can produce a fascinating result.
- Consider hard about the questions you ask.
- Let users have a minimal barrier to entry-Such as a simple registration process.
- Do not forget to consider ethics, legal liability accuracy issues.
Click here to Listen to the Audio of Willison's presentation.
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