Powerpoint I use when I give my stump speech on the history of crowdsourcing, how we use it at NPR and how the Internet is changing volunteerism

1. mobcasting the news: crowdsourcing, volunteers & journalism Andy Carvin National Public Radio USA [email_address] andycarvin.com twitter.com/acarvin slides: scribd.com/acarvin

2. What is crowdsourcing?

3. Inviting the public to help complete a task or solve a problem.

4. 10+ million articles, 250+ languages

5. John Harrison and the Longitude Prize

6. + John Harrison and the Longitude Prize

7. + John Harrison and the Longitude Prize

8. + John Harrison and the Longitude Prize =

9. + John Harrison and the Longitude Prize =

10. Napoleon’s Race to the Can

11. + Napoleon’s Race to the Can

12. + Napoleon’s Race to the Can Nicolas Appert

13. + Napoleon’s Race to the Can = Nicolas Appert

14. + Napoleon’s Race to the Can = Nicolas Appert

15. + Napoleon’s Race to the Can =

16. xprize.org

17. it’s not always about the money.

18. kobe earthquake, 1995, by matsuoka yoshiaki.

19. donate blood

20. donate blood donate money

21. donate blood donate money ???

22. donate blood donate money donate information

23. 9/11, by remko van dokkum

24. groups.yahoo.com/group/sept11info

25. donate blood donate money donate information

26. donate blood donate money donate information donate skills

27. Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com)

30. 50,000+ volunteers, 20,000 photos

31. 50,000+ volunteers, 20,000 photos Result? No Steve Fossett.

32. "The crowdsourcing thing added a level of complexity that we didn't need, because 99.9999 percent of the people who were doing it didn't have the faintest idea what they're looking for….There may come a day when this technology is capable of doing what it says it can deliver, but boy, that's not now." – Civil Air Patrol Major Cynthia Ryan, quoted in Wired.com, 11/06/07

33. lesson learned?

34. lesson learned? give people realistic tasks they can accomplish effectively and accurately .

35. crowdsourcing + journalism

36. publick occurrences both forreign and domestick Benjamin Harris, Publisher September 1690, Boston

37. ?

38. your news here

39. Your news here.

45. traffic.

46. weather.

47. recipes.

48. consumer complaints.

49. letters to the editor.

50. what about breaking news?

51. jfk assassination: the zapruder film.

52. Hudson River plane landing rescue, by Janis Krums.

53. boxing day tsunami, by david rydevik.

54. tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

55. mobile phones

56. mobile phones + smart mobs

57. mobile phones + smart mobs + podcasting

58. mobile phones + smart mobs + podcasting = mobcasting

59. nycgates.blogspot.com

60. hurricane katrina, by rose vines

61. katrina05.blogspot.com

63. hurricane gustav, by au_tiger

64. hurricanes08.org

65. hurricanewiki.org

69. npr.org/votereport

71. votereport.us/reports/map

72. inaugurationreport.com

73. votereport.in

74. npr.org/api

75. PublicMediaCamp.org

76. donate blood donate money donate information donate skills

77. a culture of participation

78. thank you Andy Carvin NPR Social Media Desk [email_address] andycarvin.com twitter.com/acarvin slides: scribd.com/acarvin