The Crowdsourcing Blog

Cross-posted from the Wooshii Blog
Wikipedia is one of crowdsourcing’s best and successful examples: it’s been way bigger than any other encyclopedia out there, and all done (mostly) by volunteers wanting to contribute it.
The thing is, many people usually wonder and ask: why so many people contribute for free?
Well they launched a video yesterday that shows [...]

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Famous crowdsourcing

Welcome to the crowdsourcing revolution. Ok so maybe revolution is a little strong but certainly crowdsourcing is becoming ever more relevant and assessable in today’s world.
Briefly defined crowdsourcing is a term that describes the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them  through an “open call” to [...]

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