Crowdfunding Campaigns Help Researchers Launch Projects and Generate Outreach

Organizers of participatory research (citizen science) projects can generate funds and outreach through crowdfunding. Here we provide insights from three successful science crowdfunding campaigns recently completed on Indiegogo, Experiment, and Kickstarter. Choosing a crowdfunding platform that fits...

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Autores principales: Dahlhausen, Katherine, Krebs, Bethany L., Watters, Jason V., Ganz, Holly H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2016
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Engaging & Training Citizen Scientists in Data Collection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4798810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27047586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1051
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description Organizers of participatory research (citizen science) projects can generate funds and outreach through crowdfunding. Here we provide insights from three successful science crowdfunding campaigns recently completed on Indiegogo, Experiment, and Kickstarter. Choosing a crowdfunding platform that fits the project is just the beginning; a successful campaign reflects its content, management, and marketing, and some researchers may need to acquire new skills. In addition, the growing trend of crowdfunding for science reinforces the importance of academic engagement with social media.
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spelling pubmed-47988102016-04-04 Crowdfunding Campaigns Help Researchers Launch Projects and Generate Outreach Dahlhausen, Katherine Krebs, Bethany L. Watters, Jason V. Ganz, Holly H. J Microbiol Biol Educ Engaging & Training Citizen Scientists in Data Collection Organizers of participatory research (citizen science) projects can generate funds and outreach through crowdfunding. Here we provide insights from three successful science crowdfunding campaigns recently completed on Indiegogo, Experiment, and Kickstarter. Choosing a crowdfunding platform that fits the project is just the beginning; a successful campaign reflects its content, management, and marketing, and some researchers may need to acquire new skills. In addition, the growing trend of crowdfunding for science reinforces the importance of academic engagement with social media. American Society of Microbiology 2016-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4798810/ /pubmed/27047586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1051 Text en ©2016 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
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