User Contribution Systems

Source: http://usercontribution.intuit.com/The+Contribution+Revolution+linked+version#fig.1

The concept of user contribution isn’t new. But the companies I’ve just mentioned – both the internet highfliers and the old-economy behemoths – have actively created something I call a user contribution system. That is, they’ve created methods for aggregating and leveraging people’s contributions or behaviors in ways that are useful to other people.

User Contribution Systems

Source: http://usercontribution.intuit.com/The+Contribution+Revolution+linked+version#fig.1

The concept of user contribution isn’t new. But the companies I’ve just mentioned – both the internet highfliers and the old-economy behemoths – have actively created something I call a user contribution system. That is, they’ve created methods for aggregating and leveraging people’s contributions or behaviors in ways that are useful to other people.