On Tuesday, November 15, 2011, at 11 a.m., CrowdSource’s CEO Stephanie Leffler and Amazon Mechanical Turk’s Senior BDM Heidi Bretz are hosting a free webinar on utilizing the crowd for content creation. During the hour-long discussion, these crowdsourcing professionals can help you learn to create, enhance and refine web content for your website. Discover how [...]
From November 7-10, 2011, you can find the CrowdSource team at PubCon Las Vegas amongst a myriad of other industry leading enthusiasts. Since 2000, PubCon has served as the country’s leading new media and optimization conference for internet marketers worldwide. This year, PubCon hosts what it calls, the biggest and boldest gathering of search and [...]
When Stephanie Leffler stumbled on Mechanical Turk in 2008, she envisioned utilizing the platform for her company’s content creation needs. However, many people questioned Mechanical Turk’s ability to return quality results for complex and thought-intensive workflows. In the beginning, most companies employed Mechanical Turk for repetitive assignments such as image moderation, product matching and categorization. [...]
While many businesses have contributed to the crowdsourcing industry through the creation of platforms, crowdsourcing would not measure to what it is today if it was not for the talent and dedication of crowdsourcing workers. To honor the accomplishments and hard work of this skilled and determined workforce, the Daily Crowdsource, the number one site [...]