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Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe
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Description for Crowdsourcing
Paperback. Describes the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that are 'staffed' by informal, often large gatherings of enthusiasts. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that are 'staffed' by informal, often large gatherings of enthusiasts. A few weeks before the article hit the newsstands, a Google search for the word 'Crowdsourcing' returned zero results. One month after the article appeared, the same search returned nearly 500,000 hits. These days anyone and everyone can write book reviews on Amazon, post videos on Youtube, come up with new uses for Google ... Read more
Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that are 'staffed' by informal, often large gatherings of enthusiasts. A few weeks before the article hit the newsstands, a Google search for the word 'Crowdsourcing' returned zero results. One month after the article appeared, the same search returned nearly 500,000 hits. These days anyone and everyone can write book reviews on Amazon, post videos on Youtube, come up with new uses for Google ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905211159
SKU
V9781905211159
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-9
About Jeff Howe
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry among other subjects. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his fifteen years as a journalist he has travelled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central ... Read more
Reviews for Crowdsourcing
An informed and enthusiastic guide to the new collaborative creativity
The Times
It is carefully researched and crisply written, and the phenomenon it describes is here to stay
Management Today
Howe is certainly on to something
Financial Times
Jeff Howe has captured a complex and vital change in ... Read more
The Times
It is carefully researched and crisply written, and the phenomenon it describes is here to stay
Management Today
Howe is certainly on to something
Financial Times
Jeff Howe has captured a complex and vital change in ... Read more