Future of Work

How the impact of artificial intelligence and freelancing aka the gig economy is changing traditional workplace practices

Crowdsourcing: A Shift in Talent Acquisition

  Business enterprise nowadays pushes competition by maximizing the use of technology such as the “cloud”. The concept of the “cloud” has been popular due to the advent of readily available software programs through the use of the Internet. These cloud applications...

Earning Through the Shared Economy?

Earning Through the Shared Economy?

You monetize the sharing economy. You rent out your car, spare room, tools and freelance as a writer, designer or coder. You are making a sweet income, tapping into the the collaborative offerings and all is well. Then April 15 comes around and brings along tax...

GE: Industrial Internet Will Connect Data, Machines and People

At the Minds+ Machines Conference in Silicon Valley, November last year, GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt hosted an event to address a room full of innovators in San Francisco. He touted the "Industrial Internet" as the next frontier in innovation. What is the Industrial...

Elance Levels the Field for Businesses & Freelancers

Our first #Crowdchat of 2013 was with the CMO of Elance Rich Pearson. Elance is a leading workforce crowdsourcing platform and Rich's expertise in crowd-centric business models makes him a leading marketing voice in the space. On the crowd chat, Rich covered a range...

Crowdsourcing? Why Can’t I Simply Outsource?

So let’s start with the fundamentals -- outsourcing vs. crowdsourcing. Outsourcing The Project So why do you outsource? Wikipedia gives a very nice answer to your question: The most common reasons why companies decide to outsource include cost reduction and cost...

10 Reasons Crowdsourcing will Transform the Way we Work

Mechanisms such as Crowdsourcing are about to fundamentally change the way we perform and organize work. Conventional organizational structures are about to become more loose and in addition to (well known) outsourcing initiatives, companies have to consider...

Crowdsourcing Week Speaks To Matt Barrie, CEO

Matt Barrie is the CEO of the largest outsourcing marketplace -- Freelancer.com. And how large is large, well how about 3.4 million professionals and 1.6 million projects under the companies belt, it's simple to see why Freelancer.com is a leader. Below is my email...