Mass Collaboration and Your Business: What You Should Know - via @Mindjet's Conspire #ideasquad | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The definition of mass collaboration is changing. While it used to be considered the process of outsourcing work to other businesses, mass collaboration has evolved into the outsourcing of work to individual people. Mass collaboration, also known as crowdsourcing, enables businesses to complete large projects by outsourcing small pieces of work to large collective groups of individual workers. Instead of paying one company a large sum of money to complete one specific project, companies can now crowdsource work to individuals for a fraction of the price.