2. CROWDSOURCING WORKSHOPS: PARTNER OFFER
We are looking for partners in major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia for Ross Dawson to run workshops.
WORKSHOP TOPICS TARGET AUDIENCES
Getting Results From Crowds Typical target audiences for crowdsourcing workshops include:
Entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, high-growth businesses,
Crowd Business Models
and social innovators
Future of Crowdsourcing Senior executives and innovation leaders in large companies
If the partner would prefer we would also be happy to run Executives in creative agencies and media organizations
workshops on topics including:
Future of Work and Organizations FEES
Fees are to be discussed and will be either:
Strategies for the Future of Media
Fixed fee
Implementing Enterprise 2.0
Revenue or Profit Share
FORMAT Fees will often be at a significant discount to Ross Dawson’s
Half-day or one-day public workshops. usual keynote/ workshop fee structure. There will be greater fee
flexibility if he is able to identify other speaking engagements
Tailored corporate in-house workshops, often focused
or client work in the same city.
on strategy for the future of work.
In some cases we will consider a short-format event e.g. BOOKS
breakfast, lunch, or evening. All workshops will include a print copy of Getting Results
From Crowds for all attendees (or Implementing Enterprise 2.0
DATES in the case of an Enterprise 2.0 workshop)
Workshop dates will need to coordinate with Ross Dawson’s
travel schedule. Initial targets include week of April 30 – May 4 CONTACT
in Europe and May/June in North America. To discuss please get in touch at www.ahtgroup.com/contact
3. SAMPLE WORKSHOP AGENDAS Note: Sample agendas only – workshop
content will always be tailored to the audience
Getting Results From Crowds workshop Crowd Business Models workshop
CROWDSOURCING FOUNDATIONS CROWD BUSINESS MODELS TODAY
Understanding crowdsourcing Business and social drivers
Types of crowdsourcing Market and funding drivers
Principles of crowdsourcing
THE 8 CROWD BUSINESS MODELS
USING SERVICE MARKETPLACES Fundamentals of the crowd business models
Comparing the marketplaces Monetization mechanisms
Specifying Success factors
Finding talent Examples and case studies
Rewarding
CROWD VENTURES
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Building crowds into everything
Platforms and tools Analysis of emerging crowd businesses
Roles and structures
EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES
USING COMPETITION PLATFORMS Where the opportunities are
Guidelines for success Designing crowd business models
Identifying talent Implementing crowd business models
USING CROWDFUNDING
Guidelines for success
Examples and case studies Future of Crowdsourcing
MAKING IT HAPPEN Can be run as a keynote, workshop, bar camp, or
Embedding into organizations unconference, exploring the many possibilities
Building capabilities for how we will tap the power of crowds.
4. ABOUT GETTING RESULTS FROM CROWDS BOOK
About Getting Results From Crowds book
Build your business What business leaders are saying
by tapping one of the “Ross Dawson and Steve Bynghall have masterfully delivered a
comprehensive and strategically pragmatic guide to crowdsourcing.
most powerful trends This is the must read bible for effective crowdsourcing.”
R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst & CEO, Constellation Research
in business today:
Crowdsourcing “Ross’s latest book is a fantastic guide for businesses looking to access
skills and drive innovation through crowdsourcing. I highly recommend it.”
Peter Williams, CEO, Deloitte Digital
“Ross Dawson, the “crowd king”, provides with Getting Results from
Crowds a comprehensive and up to date review of how to make crowds
work for you!”
Matt Barrie, CEO, Freelancer.com
“If you want to leverage the talent of a crowd – and why you wouldn’t you?
– this is the ultimate guide. It gives you insight into how to best use it to
your advantage and fly with your powerful idea.”
Getting Results From Crowds provides practical, pragmatic, Luca Penati, Global Managing Director, Ogilvy PR
clear guidance on how you can draw on the power of crowds
to grow your business. Filled with real-life case studies and “Dawson’s book will help you maximise the wisdom, creativity and value
useful examples, it gives you everything you need to know you extract from the crowd. Buy this book. Harness the crowd.
to create success in a world where talent can be anywhere. Supercharge your business.”
Alec Lynch, Founder, DesignCrowd.com
For free chapters, frameworks, resources, and latest insights
“This is the smartest, most practical overview of crowdsourcing I’ve seen
go to the book website:
(and I think I’ve seen them all).”
www.resultsfromcrowds.com Lukas Biewald, CEO, CrowdFlower