I’m a big fan of crowdsourcing. Since I witnessed how well in can work in Pyxl’s Help Us Name Us campaign, I’ve been interested in using it in other situations. Some call it lazy…I call it efficient! When it came time to find wedding vendors, I was a little lost. I didn’t grow up in Knoxville, and I’ve never been to a wedding in Knoxville. In addition, Michael and I are among the first of our friends to tie the knot, so we really had no where to turn — except for social media of course…

Until recently, I’d never heard the term “crowdsourcing”. My computer doesn’t even think it’s a word…so it must be pretty new, right? Well, it was coined in 2006 but perhaps it’s just taken a minute to get passed down to me.
Anyway, for the sake of those who still don’t know, the all-knowing Wikipedia states: Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an …