I read this great article about crowdsourcing today and found it pretty interesting. NASA actually invited people from freelancer.com to help them solve some of their more complex problems. Inviting people to help and share their ideas makes them feel good and also like they are helping the greater good. Apparently there were over 3,300 entries wanting to work with NASA. I think it's a great idea because sometimes after you've spent so much time working on a problem you can't come up with something new. Letting other people take a look at a problem with "fresh eyes" can help tremendously. Take an old case file at the police station and give it to someone who hasn't been over it yet and get there take on it because you never know what they may come up with. I think it's nice when people can admit they don't know everything and asking others for help is better for everyone. People care more about something if they have input and if you can't figure out the problem there's no harm in letting someone else take a chance. I agree with compensation but honestly I totally agree that people would love the bragging rights of saying "Hey I got to help NASA with a project". Take a look at this article and how Daniel Burrus predicted that crowdsourcing would be a thing 16 years ago. #BurrusBlog https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crowdsourcing-your-innovation-daniel-burrus?trk=mp-reader-card
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