Just attended a great session on crowd sourcing for creatives. Yes you can get the masses to help generate your content and improve your sites/offerings, but it isn’t as easy as it looks. Lots of great tips and tricks.

Check out the live blog over on the Shift Edit Alpha

Design for your users ego and sense of selfishness

Respect and trust your users

Punish the bad contributors but reward the good ones

Appeal to people’s ego

Build an environment where people want to hang out and then MAYBE they will start to contribute good stuff