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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

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Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. Becky Todd, a content manager at Atlassian (a collaboration software company), gave a talk at 2017’s Write the Docs Prauge. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing

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In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

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From 2012 through 2017, companies started devoting less innovation management resources to core innovations, and more to core-adjacent and transformational innovations. We encourage you to download the IdeaScale 2019 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report for a deeper dive into the topic of innovation management that gets results.

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Crowdsourcing During a Pandemic and Different Innovation Roles

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Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. In 2017, a team led by Davidson’s director of innovation initiatives, Kristen Eshleman, found that the university had an effective way to gather incremental innovation ideas and put them to work.

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How the GSA’s 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

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Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting failure as part of the process, and a willingness to discuss why ideas didn’t work.

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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

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So, to help you pick, we’ve selected 2017’s most fascinating, compelling innovation conferences to mark on your calendars. Disrupt 2017. There’s the virtual one happening every day: join the IdeaScale community now and add crowdsourcing to your innovation strategy. New York, May 15th to 17th.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

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Crowdsourcing in the military? After having attended Open Nation in 2017, strategist, innovator and designer Andy Howell tweeted about a new acronym he learned: BORPSAT (Bunch Of the Right People Sitting Around a Table). Is your innovation strategy working? Convincing the Grand Poobah. A Legacy of Innovation.