Recently I wrote Two Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Your Conference Content Won’t Work. In that post, I referred to organizations that were using crowdsourcing as a voting platform to source their conference topics, speakers and sessions. These organizations were not using crowdsourcing in its purest form as a distributed problem-solving and production model. It was strictly a way to receive and vote on input for the most popular topics or speakers to be offered at the conference. Some felt that I … [Read more...]
Two Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Your Conference Content Won’t Work
Let's put children in charge of their own meals. Being the forward thinking leaders that we are, we'll allow kids to decide what they want to eat. We'll use an online voting system similar to Digg so kids can crowdsource the suggestions. They'll even be allowed to announce to their friends which food items they voted for and why. What would happen? What would be served? Doughnuts, pop tarts and chocolate milk for breakfast. Pizza for lunch on odd days. Macaroni and cheese along with French … [Read more...]
