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- Put Your Customers to Work
- Don't just sell to them—learn from them! Crowdsourcing is the new way to turn your most passionate customers into a powerful talent resource.Crowdsourcing is the practice of tapping members of the general public to perform important business tasks such as research, product development, and marketing. With the advent of Web-based...
- Articles 2008-02-19
- How to Get Your Customers to Solve Problems for You
- Crowdsourcing is a technique that sophisticated companies use to translate the enthusiasm of their most highly-engaged customers into valuable marketing. Decide If You Really Care What Your Customers Think GOAL: Engage in a true dialog with your customers, or don't bother at all. ...
- Articles 2007-03-07
- What Is Crowdsourcing?
- Despite the jargony name, crowdsouring is a very real and important business idea.
- Articles 2007-02-01
Additional Resources
- InfoWorld's OSBC 2009 to Focus on Open Sourcing for the Enterprise
- Open Source Business Conference OSBC today announced that registration is now open for the 2009 conference, taking place March 24-25, 2009 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. This year's conference will tackle the biggest issue in open source today: Open Sourcing for the Enterprise. OSBC is...
- Research articles 2008-12-16
- Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server, Updates Hadoop
- Yahoo has taken its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing by introducing an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services.Yahoo has taken its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing by introducing an open...
- News items 2009-11-02
- In Search Of Relevance, Via Open-Sources Laptop Designs
- Via has open sourced a laptopâ€"computer assisted design documents, 3D models and all of the specificationsâ€"but let’s be clear about the motives. Via wants to sell more chips and motherboards to power this device with hopes to become a little more relevant. Via calls this contraption the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The Blurry Picture of Open APIs, Standards, Data Ownership
- Look beyond "real-time" and "social", and you'll easily find another pair of tech buzzwords that everybody wants attached to their product or service - "open" and "standards". Companies are practically falling over one another to show they have embraced developers or users, letting data stream in and out of their...
- News items 2009-10-29
- PayPal's (Partially) Open Platform to Usher in New Payment Models & Apps
- PayPal is opening up substantial parts of its global transactional engine, with the new open platform dubbed "PayPal X," company executives announced this morning at PayPal's X Innovate 2009 developer conference in San Francisco. PayPal developers and users now have access to a slew of new APIs, ranging from an...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Guest Post: Yahoo's Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server
- Today, Yahoo moved its open source cloud computing initiatives up a notch with the donation of its Traffic Server product to the Apache Software Foundatio n . Traffic Server is used in-house at Yahoo to manage its own trafic and it enables session management, authentication, configuration management,...
- News items 2009-11-03
- The Future of Open Source to Be Discussed at InfoWorld's OSBC 2009 in San Francisco
- Open Source Business Conference OSBC, the premier event for open source software and business, will be held March 24-25, 2009 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Produced by InfoWorld, OSBC is the industry's forum for senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers and venture capitalists to collaborate...
- Research articles 2009-01-21
- JBoss Unveils Open Source Enterprise Management Strategy; Red Hat's middleware division announces open source implementation of agent technology to drive application management across heterogeneous customer environments
- LAS VEGAS -- JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today announced it is open sourcing the core systems management agent in JBoss Operations Network ON to create and drive broadened adoption and collaboration around its open management platform. This announcement, backed by a massive JBoss developer and ISV...
- Research articles 2006-06-13
- Microsoft to Open Outlook .PST Format
- Significantly, it will also mean that the actual Outlook program, part of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, will not need to be installed. The team intends to fully document how data is stored, how to access it, and the actual structure of the PST file. It's worth noting,...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Tr.im to Go Open Source, Community Owned
- After weeks of controversy concerning a possible closure of the service, URL shortener Tr.im just announced that it's open sourcing its code, handing ownership of its domain name over to a community nonprofit organization and making clickthrough data freely available from now on, in real time. Founder Eric Woodward will...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Alt-N Technologies' DomainKeys Identified Mail API Library Open Sourced; Stand-Alone API Available On SourceForge
- ARLINGTON, Texas -- Alt-N Technologies (http://www.altn.com/), a global leader in secure e-mail, collaboration, and fax servers for the Windows platform, today announced the open sourcing of the DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail stand-alone API library written in C++, which can be used to incorporate DKIM capability into an existing MTA or...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- Sun Brings Innovative Sun™ Small Programmable Object Technology Sensors to Open Source Community; Expands Program to Educational Institutions Around the Globe
- Open Sourcing, New Pricing and Grant Programs Make Sun SPOTs Attractive to Educators, Researchers and Developers of Environmental, Robotic, and Embedded Computing Applications
- Research articles 2008-01-29
- Towards Requirements For The Dynamic Sourcing Of Open Corpus Learning Content
- The dynamic sourcing of Open Corpus Learning Content is a complex and resource intensive process. However, modern technologies and methods can facilitate an efficient content identification and acquisition process. Several bodies of research have begun investigating the application of modern technologies to problems in this area, such as automatic semantic...
- White papers 2006-07-11
- Second Sourcing Vs. Sole Sourcing: The Impact Of Demand Uncertainty
- We study the decision of a manufacturer buyer, expecting new sourcing opportunities in the future, to select between a sole and a second sourcing mechanism for a non-commodity component. In a sole sourcing mechanism, the buyer commits to source from the current supplier. In a second sourcing mechanism, the buyer...
- White papers 2006-06-25
- Strategic Sourcing - The Road to Organisational Transformation
- There are a number of summary steps to strategic sourcing success that this paper explores. These include the following main themes: Outsourcing as a term does not do justice to the flexible, relationship-based sourcing that depends on an open, partnership method of delivering value for the organisation. This paper will...
- White papers 2003-04-22
- The Benefits of a Comprehensive Sourcing Strategy
- Hiring for an easy-to-fill position can often be accomplished with a simple candidate sourcing method such as an employee referral program, print advertisements, or Web posting. However, as the skill levels and numbers of open positions grow, each of these methods tends to become increasingly cost-prohibitive, ineffective, and time-consuming. This...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Rural Sourcing to Open Technology Development Center in Greenville, N.C
- JONESBORO, Ark. -- Rural Sourcing, Inc. RSI, an information technology company offering IT services for U.S. corporations, announced today that it will open a development center in Greenville, N.C. RSI has committed to hiring experienced IT professionals from the region as well as graduates from East Carolina University and...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
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