Future of Crowdsourcing Summit
Last week we held our annual Future Summit – Sydney and San Francisco linked via TelePresence!
Future of Crowdsourcing Summit – the topic itself was sure to grab a lot of attention. Then there was the AMAZING line up of speakers who gave us all some great insights into the field of crowdsourcing.
Cisco Australia provided us with a great venue in Sydney – together with the TelePresence functionality to San Francisco.
CBS Interactive kindly provided the venue in the valley.
Here is some of the content that has been shared online.
Ross Dawson kicked off the compact event with an introduction to the summit and a copy of Advanced Human Technologies’ Crowdsourcing Framework.
Victors & Spoils CEO, John Winsor enlightened us with a keynote on how his company became the first advertising agency to successfully embrace crowdsourcing. Here’s an interesting write up write up from Beverly Head at IT Wire.
Harley Davidson taps internet vroom-vroom
“It was also important for the sustainability of the model for people tapping into clouds to make sure that there was value not just for clients, but crowd participants. “How do we build the community, not just use the crowd?” he mused.
Advertising agencies tapping into these vast pools of talent also had to work out how to protect the privacy and confidentiality of their clients. Mr Winsor said that in some instances this had led to members of the Victor & Spoils crowd being asked to sign non disclosure agreements prior to being provided with the client brief.”
Nate Cochrane at itnews shares his insights of the summit with us, as well as snippets from each panel.
Cloud, meet crowd
“”The individual knowledge worker or expert should be scared and I’d say they should be scared into action,” said Gary Swart, chief executive officer of online temp agency oDesk.
Crowdsourcing was the act of commissioning groups of people over the internet to perform tasks, usually much cheaper than employees.”
Live coverage on twitter was streaming all day – very exciting at times. I have picked out a few of my favourites:
@stilgherrian: Pleased that John Windsor of Victors & Spoils actually recognises that the crowd participants have to get “value” too. #foc10
@lisaharvey: John Windsor: how do you create the community and not just use the crowd #foc10
@pinglo: Looking at SanFran looking at us. Cross-continental panel at #foc10 http://twitpic.com/33e3e1
@roneo: Re crowdsourcing:Nicholas Gruen says the world is being taken over by participators.The participation partition is the real challenge.#foc10
@roneo: Kevin Bloch Cisco Aust CTO says the iPad is already out if date b/c it can’t capture events & conversations on video. #foc10
@jtwinsor: @rossdawson great event tonight. Learning a lot.#foc10
@AbiGoldflake: #foc10 crowdsourcing work as a way of interviewing new job applicants – Dr Gruen
@amylyden: Crowdsourcing is the ability to hire 1/10 of a person – gr8 4 startups. Lukas Biewald CEO CrowdFlower #foc10
@bhc3: #foc10 Alex Edelstein of CloudCrowd wants to leverage crowdsourcing for the workflow process for different activities.
@silverton: #FOC10 “There’s a real opportunity to make a fairer world.” Lukas Biewald @crowdflower
@bhc3: #foc10 AMP’s @maverickwoman notes employees have a cognitive surplus, and are attracted to participating. #e20
@kobygeddes #foc10 good crowdsource example Mark Scott, JJJ Unearthed
@silverton: #FOC10 In journalism, “What happens when a user is better than your reporter?” – Larry Dignan, ZDNet
@silverton: #FOC10 “The corporate structure hasn’t changed in 120 years; today, fundamental change is underway.” Mat Fogerty
@metarand: Matt Barrie telling it like it is – crowdsourcing fundamentally changing employment market #foc10
@amylyden: Cool tool: storify helps you create stories from social media. Love it @burtherman http://bit.ly/cGysgN (expand) #foc10
@amylyden: Alek Lynch DesignCrowd is talking about crowdsourcing your unborn child’s name (love this). #foc10 not sure about the in china part tho.
@bhc3: #foc10 Odesk taps into underemployed people distributed globally, affords them opportunities outside their local market.
The event attracted a familiar crowd and inspired some great conversation.
Cant wait for the next one!
