A textbook example of how to crowdsource, provided by guardian.co.uk
Nieman Journalism Lab has provided a great example of how to crowdsource, courtesy of the Guardian.
The Guardian’s had a big problem, they were going to get scooped by a competitor while having to deal with too much data to process in too little time. Solution? Crowdsourcing.
So what did they do?
“….wait for the associated public-records dump, shovel it all on your Web site next to a simple feedback interface and enlist more than 20,000 volunteers to help you find the needles in the haystack.Your cost for the operation? One full week from a software developer, a few days’ help from others in his department, and £50 to rent temporary servers.”
Sounds easy, right? Well not easy, but not as hard as it might seem if you follow the lessons offered in this article. Check it out, as well as the Nieman Journalism Lab in general.
