Question

Which of the following is an example of crowdsourcing? Group of answer choices An advertising agency contracts a group of bloggers to write and publish articles about their client's products. Electrogadgets, a site that provides information on a range of electronic gadgets, encourages members to publish their reviews and user guides. A publisher pays famous writers to provide short reviews of each other's newly published books for his e-magazine. An online financial services organization hires finance students as freelance workers to do routine tasks and write reports.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "B": Electrogadgets, a site that provides information on a range of electronic gadgets, encourages members to publish their reviews and user guides.

Explanation:

Crowdsourcing is the practice in which typical tasks done by regular employees in an organization are given to a wide-open group of people without having the need to establish a formal relationship with -as a contract, for that purpose. Those people, voluntarily in most cases, do the job characterized normally by simple, non-specialized tasks.

In the case, only option "B" describes a scenario where the company empowers its customers to carry out a simple activity that actually allows the organization to have an idea of the quality of the products offered with no formal contract in between.