• Crowd, MD: I've been predicting the emergence of crowdsourcing in the professions – namely law and medicine – for months. Earlier this month a couple Boom 1.0 veterans from Promotions.com launched OrganizedWisdom.com, which aims to provide, in its own words, "a collaborative health information community, combining professional and user-generated health content with social networking technologies to help people make the most informed health decisions possible." The site has been met with some healthy skepticism, but at least a few health care bloggers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. CEO Unity Stoakes is quick to caution that it will take time to for OrganizedWisdom to generate enough user experiences to achieve its intended affect. He also points out, in an interesting interview with The Health Care IT Guy, that this form of community knowledge gathering is nothing new in the health care industry. All the more reason, by my lights, that we're sure to see more companies like OrganizedWisdom tapping the crowd for medical information in the future. What I want to know is who's working on a crowdsourcing app for legal advice.
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Crowdsourcing: A Definition
- I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing:
The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
- Read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine.
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Thanks for the post. Your blog is great and packed with useful insights on the trend. If you have any suggestions for what we can be doing better as we work to make crowdsourcing work in healthcare please let me know. The feedback we are getting from people like you with so much experience with these trends are really helping us make continual improvements and innovations. And the support is very much appreciated. We'll keep you posted as we introduce new features to help crowdsourcing thrive! You may also be interested in our recent blog post about a physician based crowdsourcing site called sermo.com: http://wisdom.blogs.com/health/2006/10/why_social_medi.html
Posted by: Unity Stoakes | October 19, 2006 at 03:10 PM