The Internet is a global network of computer networks. A person in one location can put some information on the Internet, and another person in another location who is interested in that information can find it, even though those two people aren't nearby or know each other.

Crowdsourcing is utilizing all of the people on the Internet to get something done. Not just finding out a piece of information, but getting the answer to a question or getting a task of work done. Crowdsourcing is utilizing the Internet to find people who have the skills you need or have an interest in what you're doing to get things done. There are a lot of people on the Internet; this is a very powerful, new, underutilized concept.

You can take advantage of this by using work-flow.biz, creating a project, making it public, leaving the person field blank, putting some instructions in the description field, and linking to the project's URL on your Web site.

Here is one example. Detroit preservation is a nonprofit that has a mission to preserve Detroit's old buildings. The nonprofit doesn't have as many staff or as much money as it needs; it can only do a small portion of the things it wants to do. It creates an account with work-flow.biz, creates a public project, and links it to its Web sites. People from all over the region, state, and country who are interested that cause find the Web site; see the tasks the group needs done; do them at their computer in their spare time and on evening and weekends; and the nonprofit gets more work done, is more effective, and carries out more of its mission.

Here is another example. XYZ company is a small company that can't pay for a large IT staff. They need some Novell networking equipment upgraded. They place create a work-flow.biz public project/task. A Novell expert sees it and agrees to come and do it. A "win-win" for the company and the worker.

Here is another example. ABC company is starting up. They can't afford to have a graphic designer. They need a logo and some letterhead and business cards. They create a public work-flow.biz project. A graphic designer sees the task and agrees to do it. Another very efficient and profitable use of money and resources by the company.

Reed's Law states that the value of a network is exponentially related to the number of nodes on the network. There are a lot of "nodes" on the Internet.

work-flow.biz allows you to use crowdsourcing to get work done.

Crowdsourcing is a new, powerful feature of the Internet; 21st Century knowledge-based economy; and Information Revolution.