While Wikipedia inspires other wikisourcing initiatives the practice is hard work and demands business discipline. Technology enables but both contributing content and accessing information must be as simple as possible. Incentives to contribute that work for the crowd, whose wisdom you are trying to collect. are essential. Intentionally tapping all the networks of stakeholders on which the project depends is critical as is ensuring value is created for the sponsor.
While Wikipedia inspires other wikisourcing initiatives the practice is hard work and demands business discipline. Technology enables but both contributing content and accessing information must be as simple as possible. Incentives to contribute that work for the crowd, whose wisdom you are trying to collect. are essential. Intentionally tapping all the networks of stakeholders on which the project depends is critical as is ensuring value is created for the sponsor.
Wikisourcing Sustainable Enterprises has provided significant learning about the diverse talent and network building required to make crowdsourcing initiatives work.
JA With that backdrop I want to turn to Victoria to lead the discussion about harnessing collective intelligence to create business value, and the people networks you need to build to be successful. VGA: So if we assume YOUR definitions O ’ Reilly ’ s and McAfee ’ s that What defines Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 is the extended reach they enable and ability to cost effectively assemble and tap the crowd – how do we know we have the best minds assembled. It is our premise that we need to reach beyond the obvious networks. How do you intentionally reach stakeholder networks to get the best roi?