Crowdsourcing: Is It Effective for Your Business?
There is a practice that has been around for a few years. The term, “Crowdsourcing” is attributed to Jeff Howe (contribution editor at Wired magazine) in 2006, yet the practice…
Icon Contests are Crowdsourcing
Back to crowdsourcing! The fact is crowdsourcing is more common and easier than we often think. In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is the idea of putting a task into the hands…
Micro-Manufacturing: A Revolution Begins
Social manufacturing is upon us, and it has transformed manufacturing from macro-factories to micro-factories. The new Google DRIVE will be a part of it, since only robust and readily accessible…
Grizzled, bleary-eyed, booze-reeking, day laborers arrive at a parking lot around 8 a.m. for work. If you hire one and want more work, hold off payment as long as possible;…
DesignContest – Workflow Innovation
Crowd sourcing. No phrase makes more designers cringe than crowd sourcing, except maybe “angry clients with pitchforks.” For whatever reason, the thought of competing with thousands of other users for…
Crowdsourcing – what it is, and how you can use it.
It was a shocking article that appeared a few months ago, asking if the concept of regular employment itself was outdated. The issue raised from it was that, as opposed…