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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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Why Is Innovation Vital for Your Organization and What Innovation Services Are Available to Help?

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing helps you quickly gather a wealth of ideas that lead to positive change. Take advantage of IdeaScale’s innovation services to get the most out of your crowdsourcing experience. Crowdsourcing Approach. The approach to crowdsourcing is different for everyone. Collaborate on Innovative Projects.

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Scaling Innovation Training: How to Start, Maximize, and Scale Innovation Training

IdeaScale

I’m always surprised at the number of organizations I speak with that tell me they don’t have any training programs for their employees. Less than a half-day of effective training can make a big difference in helping people to generate more and better ideas for a crowdsourcing project. Try doing it collaboratively with others.

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Five Questions to Answer Before Crowdsourcing

InnovationManagement

As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet. The post Five Questions to Answer Before Crowdsourcing appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Crowdsourcing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global Energy company. I returned to school, got Interior Design training, and led my firm for over a decade, often working with fast-growing tech startups and their office requirements.

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Catch Up on IdeaNation 2019 Interviews in the New Year

IdeaScale

From training and education to open innovation, support for SMEs and more, it’s all at your fingertips. For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. This webinar highlights that success and delves into best practices for internal crowdsourcing from the minds at NASA.

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Iowa Department of Transportation Selects Qmarkets Platform for Cross-Functional Idea Crowdsourcing Initiative

Qmarkets

Their goal is to crowdsource ideas from their stakeholders, both internal and external to DOT, to increase engagement and transparency throughout the agency. Utilizing Qmarkets ’ field-proven best practices, DOT tailored the idea crowdsourcing platform to follow a simple four-step process.