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KMWorld – Knowledge Management portal

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KMWorld is the leading publisher, conference organizer, and information provider serving the knowledge management, content management, and document management markets. We inform our more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes — and related success stories — that together offer solutions for improving your business performance.  With access to many of the most knowledgeable writers and analysts in the industry, KMWorld also offers a number of special publications, including: the KMWorld Best Practices White Papers series — delivering high-value, educational content from industry-leading solutions providers, free from marketing hype and distraction; the KMWorld Buyer’s Guide — a print and electronic resource that will shorten your search for a vendor or simply help identify sources for KM tools.

http://www.kmworld.com/

 

Science research by “Wisdom of Crowds”

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Q1. What are the type of researches that cannot be done by Crowd-sourcing?

Researches that searches for new ideas or developing some new product. The crowd can differentiate between products or services and rank it but is case of searching something new, it is less suggested.

Q2. What type of researches can be done with Crowd-sourcing?

a. Cognition researches – such as what product is going to succeed or estimations researches.

b. Cooperation problems – Development of something that is complex.

c. Coordination problems – For example a research for developing a online guiding system by analyzing mass online reports.

Example of a research that can be done by Crowd-sourcing and how We are going to make them participate at that research?

For example I would use crowd-sourcing for deciding about the impact of using a Logo of Celebrities to decide for weather it will increase Clothing company profit and how much it will increase.

Regarding causing the crowd to participate, it seems that among the following reasons: Money, Killing time, Fun, building a portfolio, mission, the most effective motivation will be money (even it if a matter of few cents).

3 things that I learned at this lesson:

    • The extent and scope of differences between Britannica and Wikipedia illustrated by the following picture:

  • Four techniques of cause the crowd to vote:

 

a. Token voting.

b. Prediction Markets.

c. Idea Tournament.

d. Ranking sheets.

  • Innocentive – a outsourcing company that do Research and development.