Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. Traditionally it was a problem thrown
out to a group of individuals, generally amateurs in the field of question, and they would generate
solutions. The same or different sourced crowd would then sort through the solutions and the best solution
would result.

In the media world crowdsourcing is another way to collect news or events from the crowd or community. This
allows, actually encourages, citizen journalism via crowdsourcing.

ShareItMobile has refined crowdsourcing by creating a private label (White label) app and application
platform to allow instantaneous collection of reports from your entire area of influence.

You create assignments as ideas or requests to your audience and then your citizen journalists send their
reports. You manage the user generated content system (platform) to allow those citizen journalists that
have met your criteria to immediately post. The "crowd" will continue to evaluate each of the citizen
journalist's reports and give them ratings of thumbs up or down. The "crowd" will pick the best reports and
the best citizen journalists.

Crowdsourcing with ShareItMobile allows you to:

*Engage your "crowd"
*Assign your reports
*Manage your crowdsourced content submissions
*Manage your citizen journalists (crowdsourced citizen journalism)
*Manage your citizen journalism reports
*Distribute your crowdsourced citizen journalism reports via your white label site and mobile smartphone app
(application)

Crowdsourcing via the smartphone app is the best method to get citizen journalists to create and contribute
user generated content instantaneously. Your private label mobile app allows all the content to be created,
submitted and displayed from and to the mobile device.

Web-based crowdsourcing vs. mobile or app based crowdsourcing:

It is most valuable when you can facilitate crowdsourcing from both the web and smartphone. The combination of the web and mobile app allow the user to generate their photos and videos from their mobile device (smartphone) and then complete the upload of their user generated content from either the web or mobile device. ShareItMobile has allowed citizen journalism to move out of the office and into the field. Anywhere there is cell phone service or Wi-Fi can be used to upload the reports instantly.
ShareItMobile allows the report to be saved as a draft from the mobile device as it is being captured in the field. The user generated content (report) is then available to be further edited (added text, photos or video) from the mobile device while in the field or completed from the web back at the office.

Citizen Journalism

There are many pros and cons to citizen journalism. The pros are readily apparent. There are many citizen
journalist's available from all areas of interest than there are paid employees. The citizen journalist can
create the instant feedback and generate the kernel of the idea for a larger in-depth report. Generating
these front line, in the field reports feeds the professional journalist with news, content and ideas for
them to use their expertise in creating in-depth reports.

ShareItMobile removes the concerns with citizen journalism. The reports can be moderated by you first or you
can allow those that qualify to immediately post their user generated content, photos and videos. The "crowd" will moderate any objectionable content and have it removed automatically.