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(More customer reviews)PURCHASE NOT RECOMMENDED.
You might of heard the term - regifting. Regifting refers to the action of giving a gift one has received to someone else. There is an ongoing debate about the appropriateness of regifting and you even might disagree with the practice. That's until you remember your participation and relief in relaying your great Aunt's dreaded fruit cake during the holiday season to someone else.
The publishing industry has their own version of regifting. It's known as republishing. Republishing is when a book's content is slightly modified then released with a different title, cover and/or author. From casual observation to the consumer it appears to be a "new" book. In reality, except for a few minor cosmetic tweaks the content remains the same.
Unknowingly paying to purchase a republished book is not a welcome surprise.
The book being reviewed is entitled:
Crowdsourcing: High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors
by Kevin Roebuck
Publisher: Tebbo
ISBN-10: 1743046421
The book is a republished version of:
The Crowdsourcing Handbook - Everything you need to know about Crowdsourcing
by Jason Brand
Publisher: Tebbo
ISBN-10: 1743040954
Except for a few minor tweaks - title change, cover change, different author name - it's EXACTLY the same book.
It must be stated that it's the same poor quality book with the same recommendation - PURCHASE NOT RECOMMENDED.
Which brings to mind the saying - Even if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
Adding [financial] insult to injury ...
The original book entitled - "The Crowdsourcing Handbook - Everything you need to know about Crowdsourcing" - purchase price is $19.95.
This new republished book with EXACTLY the same contents - purchase price is $48.66.
On with my republished review of this republished book ...
Let's start with the face page disclaimer:
The content within this book was generated collaboratively by volunteers. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information. Some information in this book may be misleading or simply wrong.
How can the book be "...your ultimate resource for Crowdsourcing" when no checking has been done of the validity or reliability of the information contained within it?
Enough said on that.
It starts with an anemic six page introduction to crowdsourcing of which two pages are citation notes/references.
....and continues to go down hill from there.
The book lists about 80 "articles" in the table of contents contained in 209 pages. Which means content on each article averages a little over two pages in length. A number of articles are a single page.
The majority of the topics are crowdsourcing vendors (Amazon Mechanical Turk, CloudCrowd, CloudFlower, InnoCentive), crowdsourcing contests ( DARPA Grand Challenge, Netflix Prize), and miscellaneous topics (Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes).
The book is NOT a how-to manual, tutorial or reference guide on crowdsourcing.
The book is a scattered compilation of crowdsourcing topics with a very brief synopsis written on each.
...and the book doesn't have an index or glossary.
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Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a "crowd"), through an open call.
This book is your ultimate resource for Crowdsourcing. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Crowdsourcing right away, covering: Crowdsourcing, CloudCrowd, Servio, Collaborative translation, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Article One Partners, BlooSee, BlueServo, Bossa (computing), Citizen Weather Observer Program, Closed innovation, Steve Coast, CrowdFlower, Darpa Grand Challenge, Darpa Network Challenge, Dell IdeaStorm, Digital sweatshop, Distributed Proofreaders, Distributed thinking, Experience Project, FamilySearch Indexing, Funding4Learning, Genius Crowds, Giveo, Google Lunar X Prize, I-Cube Systems, Ideawicket, Indiegogo, InnoCentive, Innovation Exchange, Istockphoto, Kickstarter, Know-How Trading, Learning to love you more, Lectorium, LibriVox, List of crowdsourcing projects, Longitude prize, Maneno, Mass collaboration, Memrise, Microtask, Mygengo, MyStock, Netflix Prize, NineSigma, NotchUp, Open innovation, Open innovation intermediary, OpenSeaMap, OpenStreetMap, PageRank, Pea galaxy, Peerbackers, Phylo (video game), Pitching engine, Pledgemusic, Quirky, ReCaptcha, Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes, RocketHub, SeeClickFix, Spigit, Spot.us, TurKit, Ubiquitous Human Computing, Urtak, Ushahidi, Utest, Wbew, Wikimedia Foundation, The Wisdom of Crowds, Wisdom of the crowd, World Water Monitoring Day, Wreckamovie, Yet2.com, YouComm News, YouCut, Zooppa.
This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Crowdsourcing.
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