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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

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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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method.

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3 Lessons Learned from Open Nation 2017

IdeaScale

They came to discuss how crowdsourcing ideas is changing their organizations and to learn best practices from each other. Tim Parsons (@rookzero) November 2, 2017. — Whitney Bernstein (@whit_berns) November 2, 2017. To tide you over until next year, you can view presentations from Open Nation 2017 here.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

Why aren’t organizations recognizing the benefits of crowdsourcing? In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. However, many companies still struggle to match crowdsourcing to their specific requirements.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method. In this post, I’ll cover this aspect of adopting crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

Harvard Business Review says some common ways of measuring innovation — outside of revenue production — include counting the number of ideas that were put forth and projects in the works and determining the scope of progress on these projects as well as their impact on the bottom line. Crowdsourcing in the military?

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Top 7 Business Innovation Trends for 2017

Qmarkets

Plus, they can utilize suitable B2B software solutions such as CRM, project management, collaboration software etc. In this article, we look at a few key business trends of 2017 in different sectors and how they are redefining technology and business strategy this year. to enhance efficiency and productivity. Direct-to-Consumer.

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