You may have heard of crowdsourcing. But do you really understand what it is and why it's a great way to help your business? Here's a quick primer to get you up to speed. You'll learn how ...

Earlier this year, eYeka, a crowdsourcing platform and online community of creators that allows companies to leverage crowdsourcing to generate new creative ideas, released a report on the State of ...

Sometimes, being a part of a crowd is a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. Crowdsourcing was supposed to be the Big Idea that leveraged the interconnectedness of the Internet. Free information ...

A few years ago I joined a private Facebook group for writers and journalists. The payoffs were immediate: The members were professional and generous with advice, whether I was looking for editors’ ...

The rock musician, humanitarian, and venture capitalist Bono is perhaps echoing the thinking among many of today’s top business leaders with the line, “We thought we had the answers, but it was the ...

SINGAPORE--As crowdsourcing gains traction, risks also will emerge from companies that exploit the public for their own benefit and questions remain over which is the rightful owner of the resulting ...

To fashion an alluring look for its latest pair of DC Shoes, Quiksilver extended far beyond its team of in-house artists. It challenged a worldwide crowd. Entrepreneurs have grown accustomed to ...

In the 19th century, British scholars convened to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Rather than catalog the entire language on their own, they turned to the English public to ...

Technology-enabled crowdsourcing is still relatively new on the scene, but the potential is impressive. Ross Dawson and Steve Bynghall, in their latest work, Getting Results From Crowds: The ...

In 2010, three psychologists from the University of British Columbia published a paper with an intriguing title: The WEIRDest people in the world? Paradoxically, the paper was about Americans. The ...

"Get in losers, we're going to buy an airline," is the short bio next to the smiling face of Hunter Peterson, an aviation enthusiast making waves trying to disrupt the air travel industry.