CloudCrowd

CloudCrowd Update

I'm pleased to announce today that we are rolling out a number of new projects and features over the next week:

New Projects:

Research Video Scripts: We'll give you a topic, and you'll provide four high-quality resources that will help a scriptwriter prepare a video script.  If you enjoy internet research and have a good eye for detail, you'll really enjoy this project.  

Write Video Scripts:  We have had significant demand for more complex writing and review projects.  Our new scriptwriting project will help meet that need.  We'll hand you articles the crowd has already researched on a specific topic and asked to write a "How To" script that will be used to produce a video tutorial.  It's the perfect project for workers with strong writing skills, and will pay $5 per completed script. 

Clean Up Recipes:  You'll polish a simple recipe, break it into steps, clean it up for presentation, and select the category underwhich it's the best fit.

Categorize Business Websites:  If you love quick tasks that you can complete by just pointing and clicking, this is the project for you.  You'll review business websites to determine if they're working properly, and whether the business name we give you matches the name on the website.

New Features:  

Re-Rating:  We recently added a feature that works behind the scenes to ensure that your work is graded fairly and accurately.  Re-rating allows a CloudCrowd administrator to review any task at any time, and change the original grade if it was awarded unfairly.  If you've ever noticed that you suddenly had a small extra payment in your account that you weren't expecting, you may have benefited from re-rating.  Re-rating takes place in addition to Appeals, and is one more way we ensure that you're paid for all the work you complete correctly at CloudCrowd.

Multiple Choice Credential Pre-Testing:    Doing a Credential task, particularly for a more complex task like our Write Video Scripts project, can take time.  To help you determine whether you're ready to apply for certain Credentials, we've implemented multiple choices tests that you'll take before doing specific Credential tasks.  When you can pass the multiple choice test with 100% accuracy, you're ready to do the Credential task.  Look for multiple choice pre-testing on Research Video Scripts and Write Video Scripts.  

CloudCrowd Discussion Forum:  While it's not technically a new feature, many workers are not aware of our Facebook-based CloudCrowd Discussion Forum.  It's a great place to ask questions, learn tips about new projects and features, give feedback, and meet some of your fellow workers.   

Current Project Highlights:  Our Write Video Summaries project has thousands of tasks available, and is easier than ever.  There is no need to sit through the entire video-- clicking through to summarize key points is sufficient. One worker who has focused on this project has already earned more than $300.  They have mastered the art of the summary-- writing just enough to cover the key steps, without wasting time with the rest.  

As always, we welcome your thoughts and feedback.

Respectfully,

Alex Edelstein

CEO CloudCrowd