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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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Crowdsourced Innovation: How Enterprises Generate Explosive Employee Engagement

Planview

According to Gallup’s 2017 State of the Global Workplace Report , a staggering 85% of employees are disengaged at work. Over the years, many forward-thinking companies – AT&T, Siemens, and Pfizer to name a few – have found success in a practice that has enabled them to supercharge their employee engagement efforts: crowdsourcing.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

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Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Last week was. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. Pixel will make full use of the power of crowdsourcing to solve a specific problem statement, which is broken down into “pixels,” faster and more efficiently. General Electric.

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Report of HackerEarth’s 400 global hackathons 2018 [Infographic]

hackerearth

Compared to 2017, there was a 140% increase in the number of hackathons hosted on the HackerEarth Innovation Management Platform in 2018. High schools, universities, enterprises, nonprofits, and even governments hosted their own hackathons in 2018 to crowdsource over 14,000 ideas and 7,000 prototypes.

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Report of HackerEarth’s 400 global hackathons 2018 [Infographic]

hackerearth

Compared to 2017, there was a 140% increase in the number of hackathons hosted on the HackerEarth Innovation Management Platform in 2018. High schools, universities, enterprises, nonprofits, and even governments hosted their own hackathons in 2018 to crowdsource over 14,000 ideas and 7,000 prototypes.

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