Crowdsourcing has become a pandemic in many industries, rendering the certifications and degrees of particular professionals moot. Crowdsourcing (in a nutshell) is soliciting a paid or unpaid services of a particular population by way of the internet. Many of the first instances of crowdsourcing can be seen in the Help Wanted or Classified’s sections of …
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Feb 26
Assignment 4: How is crowdsourcing changing the way that companies approach creating content?
According to Oxford dictionaries, crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people. While it is very popular with many companies, I do not know of a lot of people talking about it. There are millions of people connected to …
Feb 20
Crowdsourcing & User Generated Content
Companies are now competing with amateur individuals thanks to crowdsourcing. As the article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” explains, people no longer need to rely on stock photographers because of websites like iStock. Rather than paying the photographer directly, individuals can pay a fraction of the price for photos taken by amateurs on websites like iStockphoto, …
Feb 16
Crowdsourcing and User-Generated Content
Crowdsourcing has challenged the long-held notion that professionally-produced content is more valuable or desired than that which is made by amateurs. Due to technological advances, ordinary people who have not specialized in a specific skill can create profitable goods or merchandise that is equally appealing, without the years of training. For example, affordable cameras now …