The phrase crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors at Wired, to describe how companies were working with the world wide web to "outsource operate to the crowd," which promptly led into the portmanteau "crowdsourcing". Howe published a definition for that expression in the blog https://allyourbookmarks.com/story14708913/the-ultimate-guide-to-air-reciever