A while back I blogged about how Facebook used crowdsourcing to translate Facebook into other languages and mentioned that the term “crowdsourcing” was coined by Jeff Howe author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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[...] Crowdsourcing as defined by Jeff Howe is “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 in the form of an open call”. [...]