Sunday, November 7, 2010

Crowd sourcing

The term "crowd sourcing" was coined by author Jeff Howe in a 2006 Wired magazine article. Crowd sourcing is defined as sourcing tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a community in the form of an open initiative. Examples include Open Source software development and the online Wikipedia. Similar phrases are open innovation, collective intelligence and social collaboration.
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