Crowdsourcing is essentially an outsource of user generated content. There are many components to this that can be found on the web. Many of which begin with a main idea. There are many different ways to look at crowdsourcing. The simplest way to think of it is to take a largely conceptualized idea or product and use advertisement on popular avenues such as Twitter and Facebook. This outsourcing of content allows people to get an idea out there and hopefully whoever sees the outsource it will draw them back to the original sight of reference. An example of this could be a person who loves to be updated on news and decides to follow The Dallas Morning News. They get a on Tweet from Twitter about a fatal car crash that happened and they would send a link back to their site to draw people in so they would want to research the event more. The term crowdsourcing originated from Jeff Howe. He defines it as “the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” I believe through his definition you can see what I mean by normally paying or doing extra work to get The Dallas Morning News circulated to using easier platforms such as Twitter. There are many other types of social media that is used for crowdsourcing as well such as Secong Life, facebook and even Youtube. Here is an example from Jeff Howe Here is Jeff Howe’s crowdsourcing blog page.http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/Crowdsourcing May 8, 2009
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