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Book Description

Give your business the edge with crowd-power!

Crowdsourcing is an innovative way of outsourcing tasks, problems or requests to a group or community online. There are lots of ways business can use crowdsourcing to their advantage: be it crowdsourcing product ideas and development, design tasks, market research, testing, capturing or analyzing data, and even raising funds. It offers access to a wide pool of talent and ideas, and is an exciting way to engage the public with your business.

Crowdsourcing For Dummies is your plain-English guide to making crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation work for you. It gives step-by-step advice on how to plan, start and manage a crowdsourcing project, where to crowdsource, how to find the perfect audience, how best to motivate your crowd, and tips for troubleshooting.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Understanding Crowdsourcing Basics
    1. Chapter 1: People Power: Getting a Feel for Crowdsourcing
    2. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Forms of Crowdsourcing and Crowdmarkets
    3. Chapter 3: Infiltrating the Crowd
    4. Chapter 4: Joining the Crowdforce
  6. Part II: Looking at the Different Forms of Crowdsourcing
    1. Chapter 5: Creating Crowdcontests
    2. Chapter 6: Raising Money with Crowdfunding
    3. Chapter 7: Making Use of Macrotasks
    4. Chapter 8: Managing with Microtasks
    5. Chapter 9: Combining the Intelligence of Self-Organised Crowds
  7. Part III: Building Skill
    1. Chapter 10: Engaging the Crowd with Your Project
    2. Chapter 11: Instructing the Crowd
    3. Chapter 12: Crowdsourcing with Social Media
    4. Chapter 13: Picking Your Platform
    5. Chapter 14: Managing Your Crowd
    6. Chapter 15: Learning on the Job
  8. Part IV: Getting All You Can Get from the Crowd
    1. Chapter 16: Combining Microtasks and Preparing Workflow
    2. Chapter 17: Crowd Reporting: Using the Crowd to Gather Information and News
    3. Chapter 18: Initiating Innovation
    4. Chapter 19: Preparing Your Organisation
  9. Part V: The Part of Tens
    1. Chapter 20: Following the Future of Crowdsourcing: Ten (Or So) Websites to Watch
    2. Chapter 21: Ten Best Practices to Adopt
    3. Chapter 22: Ten Success Stories
    4. Chapter 23: Ten Crowdsourcing Blunders to Avoid
  10. About the Author
  11. Dedication
  12. Cheat Sheet
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