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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more businesses are hopping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, often using intermediaries to get instant results. But, like most worthwhile things, it's not quite as easy as it sounds.

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’ ...

This year, we have analyzed many trends in the luxury industry, pop culture, Gen Y and social entrepreneurship. Among these trends, one of the strongest and most promising is crowdsourcing. We have ...

In June 2006, Jeff Howe, an editor at Wired, published one of the first major features that documented the newfangled world of crowdsourcing. Back then, the online labor market was still ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As fast as things are changing, they are about to change even faster. Technology is making it progressively easier to access the ...

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 ...

Crowdsourcing has become an answer for millions looking to pay their medical bills—one-third of all donations on GoFundMe goes towards health-care costs. In the fall of 2018, Vivian* went to her ...

Drafting legislation is a task that typically falls to elected officials, their staff members and attorneys. But an increasing number of state and local lawmakers are turning to online crowdsourcing ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...