Arpi Mardirossian

I had an awesome time moderating the Collective Creativity panel on behalf of Tagasauris at CrowdConf! On the panel were: Jason Aiken from 99 Designs, Karl Jacob from Coveroo, Sean O’Connell from Creative Allies and Mark Schoneveld from Poptent. The questions we covered were:

How will you handle issues of quality control verses quality assurance? Which will be of greater importance and why?

What incentives will motivate crowds in creative work? Financial? Creative inspiration? Other?

What ethical issues will spec work present? How will you deal with these issues?

What is the future of reputation management (in both supply and demand)? What role does the subjective nature of creative work play?

I recently attended CrowdConf 2010, a conference on crowdsourcing, in San Francisco, CA. It was a very well organized and informative event. Some of the highlights of the day for me were (in order of appearance):

Leila Chirayath Janah (Samasource): connecting people living in poverty with microwork

Martijn Lampert (Motivaction): managing a crowd of Dutch consumers for panel research

John Horton (Harvard): Algorithmic Wage Negotiations: Applications to Paid Crowdsourcing

Dana Chandler (MIT) and Adam Kapelner (U Penn): Preventing Satisficing in Online Surveys: A ‘Kapcha’ to Ensure Higher Quality Data

David Alan Grier: When Computers Were Human

Patrick Meier (Ushahidi): Crowdsourcing Crisis Information: The Future of Humanitarian Response