The rules of Crowdsourcing

While going through my vacation reading I discovered that Jeff Howe writes a very interesting blog on crowdsourcing. I’ve been reading it like if it was a book.

Fortunately for me he also published a book: Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business that I’ve added to my wishlist to read soon.

Some interesting content from the book: The rules of Crowdsourcing

1. Pick the right model from among collective intelligence, creation, voting, or funding.
2. Pick the right crowd from the participants to the people who will influence and usher the crowd.
3. Offer the right incentives to the crowd that are often expressed in recognition rather just money.
4. Keep the pink slips in the drawer - crowdsourcing is not outsourcing
5. The dumbness of crowds, or the benevolent dictator principle - crowds need leaders who influence
6. Keep it simple, break it down - give the crowd something each individual can work on, yet can aggregate into something great.
7. Remember Sturgeon’s Law - 90% of what is created is crap so you will need to allow the crowd to separate the cream from the crap
8. Remember the 10 percent, the antidote to Sturgeon’s law - related to #7 that the crowd can do the sorting in a democratic and open forum better than the experts.
9. The community is always right
10. Ask not what the crowd can do for you, but what you can do for the crowd - a crowd forms and is most effective when it sis working on something it wants.

Lots of notes taken this summer. Expect great things coming to Adegga very soon.

August 30, 2009 | Tags: books adegga crowdsourcing | 3 Comments

A few days in Paris

Symbolic Paris.

Unmissable Pierre Hermé Macarons.

Saint Sulpice metro station.

Japanese Computer Books in the Japanese Bookshop in Paris.

August 29, 2009 | Tags: travel paris macarons | Leave a Comment

The bridges of Valladolid

While driving to France I had the opportunity of visiting Valladolid’s beautiful bridges.

Museo de la Ciencia bridge.

Eiffel Valladolid Brigde.

Both pictures by batixa.

August 16, 2009 | Tags: bridges, travel, Valladolid | Leave a Comment

A day in Nantes

A beautiful day spent in art oriented Nantes.

Nantes is very active culturally. Lots of art works, architecture innovations and events happening at any time.

Nantes beautiful industrial history.

“le pendule” by Roman Signer is art work included in the Estuaire 2007.2009.2011 and located in Trentemoult.

Le Corbusier’s La Maison Radieuselocated in Rezé.

L’éléphant des machines de l’Ile à Nantes. A giant moving mechanical elephant.

A short stop for an apéritif at Les Docks.

Nantes beautiful landscape helped by a lovely summer night.

August 16, 2009 | Tags: art, france, nantes | 1 Comment

Valquíria Enxoval (by Joana Vasconcelos)

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity of attending the first public presentation of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos new art work.

Valquíria Enxoval is installed in the beautiful village of Nisa (where I spent all my summers when I was a kid) and was developed in close partnership with local artisans. The result if a beautiful piece full of lovely details.

Here are the videos and photos of the exhibit. More photos here.