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Crowdsourcing News & Articles
By Anthony Myers
| Thursday Apr 18, 2013
Social collaboration specialist Telligent has updated its Enterprise and Analytics offerings, adding instant messaging to the Enterprise social layer and social insights to its Analytics package.
By Anthony Myers
| Thursday Feb 21, 2013
As pervasive as technology has become in people's daily lives, it should come as no surprise that nearly everything around us is available online. Outsourcing of many types of jobs has been a popular practice for 25 years, and now Lionbridge, a company known for providing testing and translation technology, has built a cloud based outsourcing platform.
By Dan Berthiaume
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2013
Everyone knows that consumers these days do not buy a product or service without first going online to consult with a myriad of objective sites (ok, there are attempts at manipulation but savvy consumers know that) and forums to obtain third-party reviews and recommendations. But what about companies trying to decide if a particular solution or service vendor is the right one for them?
By Katie Ingram
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2013
Social innovation software provider, Spigit has announced a series of engagement and ROI-centric updates to its platform.
By Dan Berthiaume
| Thursday Oct 18, 2012
From an early age, most of us are taught not to “follow the crowd,” but instead to chart our own path. However, when it comes to sales and marketing, following the crowd can produce impressive results
By Henrik de Gyor
| Wednesday Oct 10, 2012
With the advent of more technology to help add metadata to digital assets, it would good to review a few tagging options available aside from what may already be done within an organization.
By Dan Berthiaume
| Thursday Sep 20, 2012
Enterprise social technology provider Moxie Software is planning the release of what it calls an “enterprise social knowledge” solution called Social Knowledgebase.
By Josette Rigsby
| Wednesday Sep 19, 2012
Telligent’s second annual conference, The Big Social, is in full swing. On the first full day, Kip Silverman, analyst and platform evangelist, presented “Many Tools, One Experience -- Reimagining Employee Collaboration at Intel” that provided lots of information about adopting social tools to improve internal collaboration.
By Barry Levine
| Wednesday Sep 19, 2012
Social innovation, meet social business intelligence. Social innovator Spigit has acquired business intelligence provider Crowdcast, which Spigit said will help it transform innovation into “a predictable discipline with business rigor”.
By Rob Vandenberg
| Monday Aug 20, 2012
Language is an obstacle for e-commerce. In order for businesses to compete globally for customers, they must ensure that the content they produce is readily available in each target market.
By Scott K. Wilder
| Tuesday Aug 14, 2012
As someone whose career in the 21st Century has focused mainly on user contribution systems and user created content, I leverage several crowdsourcing sites on the Web. One of my favorites is San Francisco based Kaggle.com, which according to its CEO, Anthony Goldbloom, enables people to outsource big data questions.
By Marisa Peacock
| Monday May 21, 2012
Developing a new tech platform? Looking to invest in one? If only there was a way to kick the tires and evaluate its true value in advance. Now there is. Last week, Spigit and Aragon Research launched the Open Forecast Project, a community designed to leverage the power of crowds to accurately size and value emerging technology markets.
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday May 1, 2012
A new free crowdsourcing and collaboration tool from Spigit called ICON is available today, and the workplace just got even more social with its exclusive integration with the popular enterprise social network Yammer.
By Marisa Peacock
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Forget the Magic Quadrant, and say hello to the internet marketing map. WordStream, provider of best-in-class search marketing solutions, has released its 2012 Internet Marketing 150, which compiles the top software and SaaS providers currently doing business in 10 major business categories.
By Aleksandar Ivanov
| Wednesday Apr 4, 2012

Outsourcing tasks to a network of people, commonly known as crowdsourcing, has recently been quite popular in the world of business. According to a study by the research firm massolution, crowdsourcing has shown a growth rate of approximately 75% in 2011 in comparison with 2010.