What is crowdsourcing?

http://www.tipalti.com/Industries/Crowdsourcing/what-is-crowdsourcing.aspx he idea for the term came about in 2005 when Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson were discussing the new directions that businesses were taking particularly how companies were leveraging the power of the internet in order to solve issues using the public community rather than relying on their internal workforce to do so. After concluding that businesses were “outsourcing to the crowd”, they came out with a Wired Magazine article in June 2006 titled “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”, shortly after the article was published, the term took off and the rest is history.

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