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Illustration from popularise.com In 2012 crowdsourcing is one of the fastest growing online business technologies. And this is not only quantitative growth (according to analysts, the number of companies that use crowdsourcing and the total cost of crowdsourced projects will increase by 37% and 45%, respectively), but also qualitative one.

Expert Sourcing as Advanced Version of Curated Crowdsourcing | Witology

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In the following videos scientists explain why they need to enlist your help and how the work you are doing can contribute towards their research. Video transcription [Clive Wilkinson] The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. http://www.oldweather.org/why_scientists_need_you

Old Weather - Why Scientists Need You

The Daily Crowdsource

http://dailycrowdsource.com/ You may or may not have seen the Crowdopolis poster that's been lurking around our site, the one with the gigantic silverback towering above...
agjs Crowdsource yourself a new job: “Don't take a job, create a job,” Barrie told a media event in S... bit.ly/HYFcgr #crowdsourcing 6 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite http://www.crowdsourcing.org/

Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding News and Headlines

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InnoCentive

Join us on March 29 at 2:00 pm EST to hear about NASA’s experience with collaborative innovation and partnership building activities through non-traditional methodologies. NASA will discuss the obstacles encountered during its implementation of innovation, collaboration, and crowdsourcing platforms/tools as well as address the successful outcomes and lessons learned.
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CrowdFlower - Labor-on-Demand

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Crowdsourcing Smartsheet

http://www.smartsheet.com/crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing + Smartsheet = Smartsourcing Smartsheet is the only online software collaboration tool that makes it possible to connect to an on-demand workforce. We make it easy for you to get work done with co-workers, clients, and vendors so it made sense to us to take it to the next step – we make it easy for you to get work done with a global workforce that’s always available. You may have heard of crowdsourcing, for example Wikipedia, where people do work for free. Smartsheet has created Smartsourcing, which is a form of paid crowdsourcing where you pay for the work to be done and have much more control over the quality of the results.