Mashable! - 18 Ways to Earn Money From Crowdworking

With the rapid rise of crowdsourcing over the last five years since the term was coined by Jeff Howe in Wired, there has been a lot of coverage on how individuals, organizations and businesses can implement the concept into their work. Last year there was a new conference (CrowdConf), a new consortium (Crowdsortium) and a myriad of companies that offered sites, tools and platforms to get more out of the Internet masses.

But what about the worker? Since crowdsourcing is making such a visible impact on the way work is done, how can professionals and creatives benefit from the crowdsourcing model? Here are 18 ideas for participating on crowdsourcing sites for perks, prizes, and, yes, even income.

1. Work for Money

Mechanical Turk

If you're up for doing small tasks that other people might find tedious, this site may be a fit for you. This micro-labor site o wned by Amazon offers HITs, or "Human Intelligence Tasks" which are things that are just a little too complex to be automated. Micro-labor means you often get paid pennies per piece of a task you complete. For example, you could choose an appropriate category for an extensive list of lodgings for a penny per answer. If you respond accurately to 500, you've made $5.00, if you do 5,000, you've made $50. Another assignment comes from MIT's Spoken Language Systems, and they're paying 10 cents per HIT to annotate batches of photos using speech.

Clickworker

This is a Germany-based crowd labor site, but there is also an English version available. You can get paid to provide writing, translation, research, data processing and search engine optimization. You can work for this site if you’re in a SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) country or a valid PayPal account.

Before you start as a Clickworker, you have to qualify for the task you've chosen t o work on including a base assessment and...

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