{"id":639,"date":"2014-01-15T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2017-05-16T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:42:41","slug":"anticrowdsource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2014\/01\/anticrowdsource\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I liked an anti-crowdsourcing Facebook page"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Facebook, I’ve just liked “Crowdsourcing Sucks<\/a>,” which I originally found on Twitter under crowdsource666<\/a>.\u00a0Its motto: “Crowdsourcing, the scourge of the graphic design industry.”<\/p>\n

How can a person such as myself that has been an evangelist for virtual volunteering, including crowdsourcing, since the 1990s, like this person or organization or whatever it is?<\/p>\n

Because I do see his\/her\/their point.<\/p>\n

I don’t trust a nonprofit organization that doesn’t involve volunteers in some way – but I also don’t trust an organization that talks about volunteers in terms of hourly monetary values of service given, as this says, “We involve volunteers because we don’t have to pay them! Look at the money we saved in not having to hire someone to do this work!” There is far greater value of volunteer involvement than that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, rock on\u00a0crowdsource666<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also see:<\/p>\n