The Wisdom of Crowds: Crowdsourcing Minimalism in an Open Organization
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Claim: crowdsourcing drives a shift to minimalist, customer‑focused docs. Method: run regular crowdsourced minimalist critiques using a clear checklist of five principles, assigned note‑takers, and a single aggregator who consolidates feedback. Scale: over a hundred contributors across four geos, 11 overlapping writing groups discovered, North America shows stronger uptake than Europe/Australia. Results: headings and titles rewritten, two hidden procedures extracted, confusing words removed, explicit rollback warnings added — a repeatable process that produces concrete before/after content fixes.
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- 0:00Start
- 14:00Why did Crowdsourcing work for the Scorpion hunt?
- 18:19Characteristics of minimalism
- 19:55Minimalism Principle 1
- 25:58Tips for a Successful EAP Setup Tip 1. Increase user limits (ulimits).
- 26:53Minimalism Principle 3
- 27:47Minimalism Principle 4
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