crowdsourcing


using public communities to find a service or solve a problem

TRANSLATION

crowdsourcing = die Auslagerung traditionell interner Teilaufgaben an eine Gruppe freiwilliger Nutzer, z. B. über das Internet --- GOOGLE INDEX crowdsourcing: approximately 7,000,000 Google hits

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

Facebook moves to CROWDSOURCING

(New York Times article headline)

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The report also claims that citizens have increased awareness of pressing issues as a result of the new media platforms, and the reach of such Internet-based platforms makes participation and CROWDSOURCING information much easier to find.

(International Business Times)

Did you
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crowdsourcing
noun

crowdsource
verb

- the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers

(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

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Crowdsourcing is often used to subdivide tedious work or raise money for start-up companies and charities. This process can occur both online and offline. It combines the efforts of crowds of self-identified volunteers or part-time workers, where each one on their own initiative adds a small portion that combines into a greater result.

Two editors at Wired Magazine coined the term in 2005 after conversations about how businesses were using the Internet to outsource work to individuals. They concluded that it was like "outsourcing to the crowd," which quickly led to the portmanteau "crowdsourcing."

Crowdsourcing may involve splitting up tedious tasks for crowd-based outsourcing, or it might apply to specific requests, such as crowdvoting, crowdfunding or a general search for answers, solutions, or missing persons.

The Oxford English Dictionary provides one of the earliest examples of crowdsourcing. An open call was made to the community for contributions by volunteers to identify all words in the English language and provide example quotations of their usages for each one. They received over 6 million submissions over a period of 70 years.

(adapted from Wikipedia)

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"We used crowdsourcing to develop one of our new products."

More Word Quizzes:

whinge

6 years ago

to celebrate

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to complain

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to sleep

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recalcitrant

7 years ago

to be motivated to keep going and not to give up

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to be unwilling to obey orders or follow discipline

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to be bad at arithmetic and mental calculations

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pander

7 years ago

to promote

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to please

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to punish

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old boy network

7 years ago

a powerful network of people in high places

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a social media chat group of people over 60

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the surviving veterans of World War II

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on tenterhooks

7 years ago

a feeling of love (Liebe)

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a feeling of guilt (Schuld)

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a feeling of anxiety (Besorgnis)

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