How To Get A Job 2.0: The Crowdsourcing Era Is Now!

Social media dynamics on the web can create job opportunities, but above all offer the chance to demonstrate your own skills.

Crowdsourcing is one more odd term related to Web 2.0 with a very simple meaning: it’s the process of professional skills identification towards a non-organized group of people.

Photo credit: IreneK

99designs is a good example of crowdsourcing. It’s a website that allows freelance graphic designers to demonstrate their skills.

It’s very simple:

1. The client who needs work on design, logo creating, website graphics, etc., launches a contest on the website with all the specifications required
2. The client should clearly specify the budget destined for the work
3. Freelance graphic designers who are interested adhere to the contest sending their sketches and bids
4. The client should give feedback to all contestants
5. At the end of the contest, the client chooses the best work and its designer is allowed to receive the available budget
6. The client get the copyright of the winner proposal

The budgest rank from thousands of dollars to a hundred dollars. The freelancers proposing the work take part in the contest for free, while the value for a client to open a new contest adds 39 credits (1 credit – US$1)

These are some of the proposals for the Amyris’ logo with a US$1000 budget.

If you’re a graphic designer, don’t waste your time, add 99designs to your favorites and take a look at the website, it’s a great example of how networking and online conversations can generate job opportunities.

Here’s a good video on crowdsourcing:

More crowdsourcing resources

From Top Crowdsourcing Websites, Resources, and Companies;

What are the best crowdsourcing websites and tools? Here are some great ones I’ve run across:

• Kiva

• Idea Blob

• Gog Me

• Cool Town Studios and Beta Communities

• Kluster and Crowdspirit

• Crowd sourcing art and museum exhibits

• Crowd sourcing restaurants (props to the Affinity Labs, the coworking space in located in Adams Morgan in Washington DC and Harvey Rheingold)

and some more  relevant crowdsourcing articles picked up from StumbleUpon;

• The Rise of Crowdsourcing
• Crowdsourcing: Consumers as Creators
• A Million Heads is Better than One
• People Participation in Mass Collaboration Projects

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by Dan Di Gregorio | 25 August 2009 | Featured, Social network

Tags | 99design, crowdsourcing, Social network