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I had the opportunity this past Monday to write a guest post for Chaordix (@chaordix), a highly-innovative crowdsourcing firm with some great people I’ve had the pleasure of communicating with, including @clintonbon @shelleykuipers and @superblue. In the article, I explored the idea of organizational crowdsourcing. An interesting comments discussion also emerged on the incentive structure of this model, specifically in corporate vs non-profit organizations and varying community sizes.

You can find the original guest post here. What are your thoughts about this idea, including the incentives we discussed in the comments on the Chaordix blog?

I hope you enjoy it.

Crowdsourcing, once an innovation by a few forward-thinking companies and organizations, has spread into a diverse industry of firms working in ideation, design, development, philanthropy, customer service, venture capital funding – you name it. Do a simple search for crowdsourcing and you’ll see how many have popped up in the few years.

Recently, a new player entered the arena – the companies themselves.