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The Growth of Crowdsourcing

Sunday, June 6, 2010

I learned a new word this week: Micro-volunteering. The idea is simple enough. Next time you're stuck in a traffic jam, stuck sitting in your dentist's waiting room, standing around during …

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Crowdsourcing Social Change

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of Change.org (an online media network for social change), says that we figured out how to give money to causes and charities over the web in 2009. But in 2010 that wi…

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Crowdsourcing

Sunday, June 7, 2009

I've mentioned crowdsourcing before, but it's been a little while. Wikipedia defines crowdsourcing as "the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and …

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Are We Going to Start Paying the Crowd?

Monday, December 8, 2008

Crowdsourcing: the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. Put in l…

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