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Crowdsourcing and the Libraries

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Crowdsourcing is a new concept for me.     Crowdsourcing is the use of a network or a group to create content for a   specific task within a business (Paniagua & Korzynski, 2017).   Social media provides another way for crowdsourcing to take place.   The engagement between the owners of the   social media account and its followers would be important for when given a task to follow up and assess these contributions. It would be important to invest in others and make them feel part of the group.   My first thought when reading one of the other articles for class that discussed crowdsourcing is it would help my sister’s business.   Since COVID-19   has occurred they have set up an online store so that they could continue to do business.   I thought it might be useful to begin using crowdsourcing since they would have time to focus more on the social media aspect of their business.   I have not followed up with my sister to see if they were able to start crowdsourcing but here