We received such a positive response to our February Crowdsourcing 102 post that we decided to follow it up with some of the questions we fielded about it, all answered by our resident managed crowdsourcing expert, Kevin Dodds. Q. Have you considered using known answers (KAs) throughout production in addition
Large media companies are moving away from paying in-house staff to create proprietary online content and favoring two lower-cost models for content creation — user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing-generated content (CGC). Since these two approaches are often confused with each other, it’s worth looking more closely at the real differences
Many businesspeople fear that crowdsourcing – or cloud labor – poses a threat to US jobs and thus our economy. In fact, the opposite is true. Using crowdsourcing to take care of time-consuming research, data collection, and other simple tasks frees skilled employees to focus on higher-value work, increasing employers’
Like any language, crowdsourcing jargon has morphed over time. Some terms have been around for years and are very familiar, while others are relatively new and reflect crowdsourcing’s ongoing evolution. Here are some must-know terms for talking about crowdsourcing in 2014. Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing uses online marketplaces, in particular Amazon Mechanical
We started IEI in 2007 with a simple premise: To help the folks running online information services make sure their data were never out of date so their clients always had a great user experience. After almost eight years in business, we have achieved our goal and we thought we’d
We at IEI recently had the opportunity to talk to Chris Taggart of OpenCorporates about open data, data accessibility, and data quality. OpenCorporates aims to be “an open database of the corporate world, with the goal of having URL for every company worldwide. In addition, they’re slowly importing company-related government
Last week Information Evolution paid a visit to the University of Texas at Austin School of Information (UT iSchool). As an alumna of the UT iSchool, I was excited and proud to be back on campus with the IEI team. Our own Kevin Dodds was a guest speaker in Dr.
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