crowdsourcing
(noun)
Delegating a task to a large, diffuse group, usually without substantial monetary compensation.
Examples of crowdsourcing in the following topics:
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Marketing as an Entrepreneurial Force
- ., flash mobs, crowdsourcing) to develop clever and relevant campaigns.
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Social Media
- Limited only by the imaginations of Internet Web designers, social media offers marketing vehicles, such as magazines, forums or discussion sites, weblogs, social blogs, microblogs, instant messaging, email, crowdsourcing distributed to a specific group of people, photographs or pictures, articles, video, and wikis or collaborated websites allowing additions, modifications, and deletions.
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Branding Strategies
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Evaluating Material from the Internet
- Wikipedia, one of the most popular wiki websites in the world, relies on scholarly material and crowdsourcing to provide accurate, targeted, and comprehensive information to the masses.
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Making Appropriate Changes to Product, Placement, Promotion, and Pricing
- Content published by social media users can also feed into various communication channels (e.g. crowdsourcing ideas for a television commercial) and used to further expand a brand's reach and presence.
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Introduction to This "Textbook" (for Instructors and Scholars)
- Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing seeks to encourage active public discourse by publishing works that are born out of, or facilitate, community (inter)action — works that are crowdsourced or collaboratively authored, openly accessible, encourage remixing and republishing, and/or blur the lines between author and reader.