Cloudswave’s Monday Mashup – Search Roundup for April 18th, 2016

Check out this week’s “Monday Mashup – Search Roundup”; A list of all the interesting articles available!

There you have it folks!

In order to concentrate on their core business capabilities, companies tend to crowdsource or outsource some of their services. Crowdsourcing is defined as “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers”.

Choosing the right partners and concentrating your efforts and resources on what you do the best can be seen as a competitive advantage. However, when outsourcing some of your services to third parties, you tend to lose control over that advantage.

Does outsourcing make your business stronger? Does it upgrade your performance or is it a risky way to manage and control your business?   

This week’s Roundup regroups 10 articles on crowdsourcing. These posts were gathered from different sources and tackle various points, including advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing along with real-life experiences from the authors.

• 3 Global Brands Show How Crowdsourcing Is Done by Steve Olenski
  
• The 5 Biggest Crowdsourcing Fails of All Time by Minda Zetlin
• 5 Ways Freelancers Can Save You Time by Thomas Smale
• Pros and Cons of Outsourcing to India by Arnie Singer
• Why Your Company Should Consider Outsourcing Content Creation by Kelsey Meyer
• 7 reasons to choose Latin America for your dev outsourcing by Damien Filiatrault
• Is outsourcing IT worth the compliance risk? by Bruce Harpham
• IT outsourcing customers cling to cost-savings mindset by Stephanie Overby
• The Foolproof Guide to Outsourcing, for Entrepreneurs by Kallen Diggs
• Make Job Rotation Social: Crowdsource it by Patrick Willer

If you consider crowdsourcing, you will need tools to manage all the work in progress with your partners, and your freelancers. In fact, freelancing has become more developed and common over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the number of freelancers has reached over 53.7 million according to an article in Entrepreneur.

To bring value to freelancers and help them manage their time, work and network, this week’s second roundup includes  10 of the most recent and popular articles. So, if you’re a freelancer,  this selection will make your life easier.   

• Want to Work Better With Your Freelancers? Here are 9 Things They Wish You Knew by Nataly Kelly
• 13 New Tools to Outsource Your Content Creation in 2016 by Aaron Agius
• How Freelancers Can Boost Your Content Marketing by Rich Pearson
• Marketers: Here’s How to Make Your Freelance Writers Fall in Love with You by Sarah Rickerd
• The Biggest Mistake Marketers Make When Working With Freelance Writers by Brian Maehl
• Want to Start a Freelance Business? 12 Successful Freelancers Share Their Best Advice by Jeff Haden
• Every Resource a Full-Time Freelancer Could Ever Need (Plus Some) by Sara McCord
• The Top 10 Industries For Freelancers by Jared Lindzon
• Here’s What The Future Looks Like When Freelancers Make Up 40% Of The Workforce by Tam Pham
• We’re Turning Into a Freelance Nation. Here’s What That Looks Like by Russ Fujioka

Comment below if you would like to suggest another article that is not in the list.

Cheers

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