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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”?

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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 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

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In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. From the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to the Covid-19 solutions marketplace in Israel last year, crowdsourcing has been proven as an effective way to gather solutions and solve problems.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

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We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. Although you try to map underground resources very diligently, there’s still a margin for error once you go underground. What drives innovation investment?

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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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How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: Open source software, patents, and research provide the codebase, data, and information to anyone who wants to explore it. First coined as a term in 1998, open source has its origins in the computer science sector and refers to software where the source code of the project is freely available and can be modified by anyone.