Crowdsourcing for dummies / by David Alan Grier

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