Key Terms And Concepts Of Crowdsourcing: -






Amateur:  A person without formal training or professional credentials in a specific field.

Brief: A document giving essential information concerning the problem that needs solving.


Creative:  A term used in the advertising industry to describe people who produce creative products. For example, designers or copywriters.


Collaboration:  An online community working together on a single project.


Collective Intelligence: A shared intelligence from the collaboration of many individuals.


Community: A social network of individuals who interact through a specific medium.


Crowd: A large undefined group of people made up of many online individuals.


Crowdsourcing: Taking a job traditionally performed by a professional and distributing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.


Folksonomy: A form of crowdsourcing also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing or social tagging. The practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to interpret and categorise content.


Ideation:  A process during which new ideas are created.


Intellectual property (IP):  Legal property rights over intangible creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial.


New agency model:  The incorporation and use of crowdsourcing platforms to source marketing and communications solutions.


Open Call:  When a request is made for anyone to submit solutions to a problem.


Open Source:  In the context of Crowdsourcing this is when a cooperative activity is initiated and voluntarily undertaken by members of the public, not by a client or crowdsourcer.


Outsourcing:  Work is conducted outside of an organisation by a specific defined individual or group of people.


Spec work:  Fully executed creative work requested by crowdsourcing platforms that is not paid for upfront, and is only paid for when the work is chosen or accepted. Work that is not selected is not paid for.


User-generated:  Various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users.


Wiki:  A simple website that can be edited in real time by a number of users.


Wisdom of the crowd:  The collective knowledge, opinion or skills of a group of individuals rather than a single expert used to solve a problem. Usually used for consumer feedback and new product development.

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