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Crowdsourcing is altering the way companies come up with innovative ideas and accomplish large and small tasks.

A conference in New York City showcases the leading edge of crowdsourcing.

Just in time for back to school: an online repository of study guides, flashcards and tutors from over 4,300 universities.

If you're looking to jump-start your marketing, consider enlisting your online fans.

Competition site Kaggle makes predictive modeling more effective and efficient--and a lot more fun.

Many nonprofits can't afford the help of designers and copywriters. CrowdSpring's volunteer program offers a solution.

Should federal law be changed to allow crowdfunding to become more widespread? Here's why that may be a bad idea.

Napkin Labs gives businesses access to crowdsourcing and some big ideas from their most devoted fans. Consider this case study with a Boulder, Colo., startup.

C.J. Kettler's online crowdsourcing venture, Genius Crowds, aims to move product ideas from the "light bulb" stage onto store shelves.

Do you want to know, once and for all, what the cloud is? Here's our take on those technology terms you keep hearing, but may not quite understand.

Co-creation is turning consumerism into teamwork, enabling buyers to be part of a company's innovation.

At the age of 24, Ben Kaufman already has a successful startup track record. With Quirky, he's tapped into the power of open innovation and created a place where anyone can become an inventor.

Ahhha.com is a social network that taps the collective wisdom of the masses.

As the economy fights to rebound, many employers are forgoing paying full-time employees, and are instead tapping into the online community of hungry freelancers. Many business tasks — marketing, public relations, research, design, legal services — can be handled quickly and affordably through crowdsourcing sites. One of the first to latch onto the opportunity was […]

How can crowdsourcing work for your business? A look at some online resources that stand out from the crowd.

How skipping high school helped Student of Fortune founder Sean McCleese find success in the tutoring business

The sites seem to pop up overnight and proliferate like mushrooms. Associated Content, Demand Studios, Helium, CrowdSpring, Elance, Guru, Amazon Mechanical Turk. In the freelance writing world, they’re known as content mills — places that offer writing and design services, often at astounding low prices. This technique is known as crowdsourcing — tapping a large […]

There’s been a lot of excitement about the marketing technique of crowdsourcing–getting fans and customers to create your marketing content free. But the crowd can easily turn into an angry mob–just ask Toyota, which had a recent crowdsourcing disaster. If crowdsourcing can backfire even in the hands of experienced, major-company marketers, should small businesses go […]