Crowd-Sourcing Project

Crowd Sourcing project:
If I were to make a crowdsourcing project I would focus the idea around scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is an expensive and time consuming project. It involves being able to have enough space, materials, and money to finance the projects. Although the idea of creating a scrapbook may sound simple, it actual take a great deal of creativeness, thought and design. Besides the pictures you need to create the scrapbook and you also need a great design. Being a full time student and having a demanding job, it is hard to find the time to get the pictures I want to scrapbook, come up with a design or layout, then finally build the scrapbook; not to mention the mess it can be and the time it takes to clean up and put things away. I know other people feel the same way.  

So for my crowdsourcing project I would create a space where people could contribute to page layout designs for different geographical locations and different events. All the contributors would collaborate to create one- to as many designs as they want and upload them to the Internet.  As each layout gets completed by the group of individuals that helped create the page, it would get placed into an online scrapbook. When the scrapbook is deemed complete, the viewer would be looking at pages created by people all over the world and each of the pictures for that specific event, like Easter Sunday, for example. Essentially the contributors would be adding ribbon, boarders, pictures, cutouts, etc. By allowing everyone to take part in the creation of this layout it will allow the world to have its own scrapbook with unique pictures and memories. This project would also allow the participant to use other peoples design by simply printing the design or recreating it with their own materials. If the participant chooses to print the design (for free), it not only eliminates most of the costs of scrapbooking, but also cuts back on the time because the design is being made by millions of people around the world instead of just one. Essentially this can be done to create invitations, collages, slideshows, and other projects as people see fit.

Another unique experience is the ability to create projects that can be completed for private groups. Say, after a wedding the bride wants a scrapbook so family and friends can log on to the website and contribute to the wedding scrapbook. By allowing a private collaboration view, the end result would just be pictures of that persons wedding or event rather than anyone in the world. Another example of this crowdsourcing project includes the celebration of Easter Sunday. Here, everyone could log on to the website and begin to create a page layout that represents their experience on Easter Sunday. The website would rotate through many different locations and events while placing them in their own scrapbook for viewing and for everyone to use. Here is what the home page would look like: