Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community.
Sometimes a crowd can be smarter than any one of its members, even when they're not actually working together. David Griner of The Social Path highlights a few clever uses of crowdsourcing, just to show how it's quickly changing almost every aspect of online commerce, research and even human interaction.
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