Recently designed and animated two short promos for http://join.pk . JOIN is our project for Pakistanis all over the world to collaborate and build helpful public information online. We are utilizing world's most powerful collaborative content development technology WIKI to empower this portal.

Opportunity Promo

Join.PK Introduction

We used Flash, Motion 3, SoundTrack Pro, & Final Cut Pro to build these animations.

Crowdsourcing is a type of outsourcing in which, instead of contracting work to a single provider, we actually engage a large group of people from various places to work on a single or multiple tasks.

Crowdsourcing is becoming a popular business practice and it can yield the results you have never experienced before. More people can make more progress is a simple natural logic, which is applicable today with technology connecting all of us together. One of the strongest example of crowdsourcing is Wikipedia which is being edited by million of members. That is the reason its world's largest encyclopedia today.

Crowdsourcing Implementation

Crowdsourcing is best suitable for such tasks in which we need faster results in minimum amount of time. Crowdsourcing engages more people and you compare the results directly, rather than first going through a hiring process and guessing who will work and not. There are different crowdsourcing models yet developing, in which you can give a single task out. Crowdsourcing applications help you manage your tasks and progress of the people working at it.

Generally businesses are crowdsourcing their design, SEO, programming, content development, jobs through various websites, where you can post your work and find interested people to engage. Crowdsourcing is performance basis and the risk to lose is quite less than in other business styles. However your campaign needs to be compatible with crowdsourcing model.

The idea is still new and we will realize its applications, benefits and problems with the time. We believe designing specialized crowdsourcing campaigns and choosing the right platform to work with, can get you best results.

Some crowdsourcing business webs

Odsek
At Odesk you can create virtual teams from multiple geographic locations, and give them a common or multiple tasks to work upon. You can monitor your work force online with easy to handle web application which measure performance on hourly basis.

99Designs
Recently started, we found it an excellent resource to get multiple design ideas from a large number of graphic designers from all over the world. These designers create sample mockups for your requirements and post you online. You select the best design you like and pay for it.

Salesforce
Offers solid web based technology to manage your customer relationships and help you grow. This web based CRM is industry leading and you can organize your sales team in the best manner and get the maximum out put from them.

You do not need to hire and depend on a single person or an in house (costly) team anymore. Crowdsourcing model can really help you boost your business in a short time span. Same like in Outsourcing, you need to document your campaign (requirements) very clearly in order to get desired results. Your campaign planning must take into account that its not an in-house job execution, and a wide spectrum of people will be involved with it. A decent monitoring and assessment technology is required to handle the workers on your job.

We all have heard the phrase “Clients get what they deserve”. This statement is often given both in good projects and bad projects. Its true to some extent, clients does play a very important role in any project or advertising campaign completion and its results. However its just not a client or a providing company who can destroy a project, it can be “both”

Let's see how clients participate in any project and effect the outcome of it.

Clear Requirements

First and most important is providing clear and final requirements to the development company. Client must do his/her home work prior to asking for a quotation from any company. The home work for a website should include following.

• A well written Business Plan
• Target Audience Identification
• Website Feature List (System Requirement Specifications)
• Competitor Websites (Competition Analysis)
• Reference Websites
• Time Frame
• Budget

If a client do not provide clear instructions, it will take more time to find out what is required for the development company. Another important issue is requirement change time to time, which can hurt a project's development. Such conditions increase the project failure chances.

Fair Budgeting

As per the world economics, all of us do tend to find the lowest price possible for any solution we need. However, we must not ignore the fact that we might compromise project quality by under budgeting a software or web development project.

To have the best estimate for the right price of a project, a client should send his/her requirements to multiple companies and differentiate their offerings. Simply going for the lowest price might not be the best option for your business.

False Time line Pressure

We have often seen clients putting unnecessary pressure for a quick completion of a project. Squeezing the required time line of a project will not let the project grow fully. Which will effect in spending more time later fixing things, and in the end we spend a lot more time than we should have actually, if provided the right time line in the first place.

Timely Feedback and Decisions

Creative projects always require decisions made by clients time to time during the development. The client have to get involve truly in the project to post required feedbacks without much delays. Sometimes clients are too busy to even comment back on their own projects, yet expecting a wonderful completion. Providing clear and timely feedbacks help to complete a project in time and budget.

Trusting the provider

If you have hired a professional individual or company to work on your project, then you should also trust their opinions. We do not see a point in hiring a professional doctor but take medicines we like

If you do not trust a provider, then simply don't hire him/her. If the client and the provider don't work as a team, the outcome of a project is disastrous.

Timely Payments

Finally a Client needs to make timely payments which assure that the provider company is getting the result of the hard work. Late payments can slow down provider progress and damage the final outcome.

We love what we do and respect our clients for choosing us. Genexbs has 24*7 open communication channels for a project stake holders. Effective communication is the key to success and can solve great problems with ease.

Please share your experience and thoughts on the matter of a Client's role in a project development.