Here is a starter list for anyone interested in crowdsourcing and crowd funding; it is by no means a comprehensive list, but it does detail the evolution of crowdsourcing in museums. Have a great crowdsourcing resource that is not list here? Email Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh (kate@revitalizinghistoricsites.com) and she will add your resource to the evolving Crowdsourcing Resource Guide.

Selected Examples: Projects and Businesses

50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection at the Walker
http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2010/50-50-audience-and-experts-curate-the-paper-c

Civil War Diaries and Letters Transcription Project
The University of Iowa Libraries
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cwd/transcripts.html

Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
The Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/

Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian: From its Opening to Recent Years...
The Smithsonian Institution’s crowdourcing tradition, since 1849
By Elena Bruno
http://www.slideshare.net/SIArchives/the-smithsonian-institutions-crowdsourcing-tradition-since-1847

crowdSpring
“The world’s #1 marketplace for logos, graphic design and naming”
http://www.crowdspring.com

Digital Humanities Now
A Real-time, crowdsourced publication
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

Firefly Watch
Museum of Science, Boston
https://www.mos.org/fireflywatch/

History Pin
Google
http://www.historypin.com

InnoCentive
http://www.innocentive.com/

MN 150
Minnesota Historical Society
http://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/mn150/

Obermutten International Museum of Friendship (Switzerland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN5kfHw4CLk
http://www.facebook.com/obermutten
http://www.psfk.com/2012/08/museum-crowdsourced-objects.html

Tag! You’re It! and Freeze Tag!
The Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tag_game/start.php
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/freeze_tag/start.php
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/posse/

Threadless Tees
http://www.threadless.com/

What’s on the Menu?
The New York Public Library
http://menus.nypl.org/

Crowdsourcing, Search the Collections (Beta)
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/

You Like This: A Democratic Approach to the Museum Collection
Plains Art Museum
http://plainsart.org/exhibits/you-like-this-a-democratic-approach-to-the-museum-collection/

Books

The Participatory Museum
By Nina Simon, 2010

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business
By Jeff Howe, 2008, 2009

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
By Clay Shirky, 2009

The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki, 2005

 
Webinars and Videos

Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Connecting to Collections Online Community, WebWise, June 14, 2012
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/2012-webwise-crowdsourcing/

 White Papers and Reports

TrendsWatch 2012
American Association of Museums, Center for the Future of Museums, 2012
http://www.aam-us.org/docs/center-for-the-future-of-museums/2012_trends_watch_final.pdf?sfvrsn=0

RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online
RunCoCo, March 2011
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/resources/RunCoCo_Report.pdf

 
Articles and Blogs

Historians Ask the Public to Help Organize the Past, but is the Crowd Up To It?
By Marc Parry
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3, 2012
http://chronicle.com/article/Historians-Ask-the-Public-to/134054/

How Crowdsourcing Helps Your Nonprofit: Harness the Crowd to Increase Awareness, Cultivate New Volunteers, and Gather Information for Your Charity
By Soha El Borno
TechSoup, August 23, 2012
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page13684.cfm

Crowdsourcing the AAM Annual Meeting
By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future of Museums, July 19, 2012
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2012/07/crowdsourcing-aam-annual-meeting.html

Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future of Museums, May 29, 2012
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2012/05/integrating-collaboration-and.html

Crowdsourcing in the Art Museum
By Mike Murawski
Art Museum Teaching: A Forum for Reflecting on Practice, April 18, 2012
http://artmuseumteaching.com/2012/04/18/crowdsourcing-in-the-art-museum/

30 do’s for Designing Sucessful Participatory and Crowdsourcing Project
By Jasper Visser
The Museum of the Future blog, December 8, 2011
http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2011/12/08/30-do%E2%80%99s-for-designing-successful-participatory-and-crowdsourcing-projects/

Crowdsourcing Transcription: Who, Why, What, and How in Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011
By Ben W. Brumfield
Collaborative Manuscription Translation blog, November 18, 2011
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2011/11/crowdsourcing-transcription-at-mcn-2011.html

Before the Opening: What You Should Know About ‘You Like This’
By Kris Kerzman
Plains Art Museum blog, October 5, 2011
http://plainsart.org/weblog/before-the-opening-what-you-should-know-about-you-like-this/

Curating By The Public: When Is It Good, And When Not?
By Judith H. Dobrzynski
Real Clear Arts, October 5, 2011
http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2011/10/plains_museum_and_public.html

More on Crowdsourced Scholarship: Citizen History
Guest Post by Elissa Frankle
Center for the Future of Museums, July 28, 2011
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-crowdsourced-scholarship-citizen.html

‘You Like This’ Moves to an Online Vote
By Kris Kerzman
Plains Art Museum blog, July 1, 2011
http://plainsart.org/weblog/you-like-this-moves-to-an-online-vote/

Should Curating Be Crowdsourced?
By Robin Cembalest
ARTnews, April 1, 2011
http://www.artnews.com/2011/04/01/should-curating-be-crowdsourced/

Crowdsourcing Via Social Media Allows Rapid Remote Taxonomic Identification
By Brian Sidlauskas
National Museum of Natural History Unearthed, March 22, 2011
http://nmnh.typepad.com/100years/2011/03/crowdsourcing-via-social-media-allows-rapid-remote-taxonomic-identification-.html

Curator 2.0-The New Duties of an Evolving Job
By Colleen Dilenschneider
Know Your Own Bone blog, January 13, 2011
http://colleendilen.com/2011/01/13/curator-2-0-the-new-duties-of-an-evolving-occupation/

More on Crowdsourcing
By Dr. Lynda Kelly
Audience Research Blog,February 8, 2011
http://australianmuseum.net.au/BlogPost/Audience-Research-Blog/More-on-Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing the Museum
Museum Next, February 12, 2010
http://www.museumnext.org/2010/blog/crowdsourcing-the-museum

Crowdsourcing & Exhibit Development
By Justine Roberts
Museum Now blog, October 22, 2010
http://museums-now.blogspot.com/2010/10/crowdsourcing-exhibit-development.html

Crowdsource the Museum?
By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future of Museums, August 20, 2009
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2009/08/crowsource-museum.html

Crowdsourcing Design: What Will This Mean for Museums?
By Angelina Russo
Social Media and Cultural Communications, July 17, 2009
http://socialmedia-culturalcommunication.org/crowdsourcing-design-what-will-this-mean-for

The Rise of Crowdsourcing
By Jeff Howe
Wired Magazine, June 2006
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html

Articles and Blogs on Crowdsourcing Funding

Kickstarter To Outfund National Endowment for the Arts
By Alicia Eler
Read Write Web, February 24, 2012
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kickstarter_to_outfund_the_national_endowment_for.php

The Digital Humanities are Already on Kickstarter
By TJ Owens
Trevorowens.com, August 13, 2011
http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/08/the-digital-humanities-are-already-on-kickstarter/

The Future of Development: Crowdsourced Funding
By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future of Museums, June 21, 2011
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2011/06/future-of-development-crowdsourced.html

James Franco Takes to Kickstarter to Help Launch a Museum of Non-Visible (More or Less Non-Existant) Art
By Julia Halperin
Art Info, June 16, 2011
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37895/james-franco-takes-to-kickstarter-to-help-launch-a-museum-of-non-visible-more-or-less-non-existent-art/

Will the Crowd Fund Our Project? A Kickstarter Story
http://uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/12/will-crowd-fund-our-project-kickstarter.html
Kickstarter Lessons, Part 2
http://uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-ive-learned-about-kickstarter-part.html
YES! The crowd WILL fund our project: Kickstarter Lessons #3
http://uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com/2011/02/yes-crowd-will-fund-our-project.html
Three posts by Linda Norris
The Uncatalogued Museum, February 2011

Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way
By Nina Simon
Museum 2.0, July 12, 2010
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2010/07/kickstarter-funding-creativity-in-new.html

Small Donation in Large Numbers, With Online Help
By Matt Villano
New York Times, March 14, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18CROWD.html