To use crowdsourcing is to tap into the collective intelligence and opinions of the public in order to complete business-related tasks that a company of individual would normally either perform themselves or outsource to a third-party provider.
Why does it matter to an individual?
Crowdsourcing can improve productivity and creativity while minimizing labor and research expenses. Using the Internet to solicit feedback from an active and passionate community of customers can reduce the amount of time spent collecting data through formal focus groups or trend research, while also seeding enthusiasm for upcoming products.
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There are many different websites out there that can be used to your advantage some of these include the basics, twitter, blogs, facebook, flickr, etc. However, there are also many others. Some of these include 99designs, namethis, Chaordix, kluster, reddesignme, ponoko, and utest,
Crowdsourcing is a good idea but I believe it suffers from the "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem that affects many other project of it's kind. In this case, the drive to not add value to a persons time or, a drive to the bottom dollar by the consumer.
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