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Editing for Success: Style, Fix Ups, and Asking for Help

Camden Swita — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:59:01 -0700

by Leonard Telford

"The trick is to complete tasks slowly and carefully, making sure to cross-reference everything with the style guide for the first few tasks."

Like many people, I was caught up in the various layoffs and so on that have happened th

WD-8: Content Production Evolution

Camden Swita — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:26:35 -0700

We’re striving for a higher level of quality for our clients and a better experience for all of our workers. In this spirit, we’re rolling out a ton of improvements and changes to our worker resources and content policies that will take effect at 12 a.m. PDT on Oct.

WD-7: Content Review Checklists Standard for All Projects

Camden Swita — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:28:28 -0700

Many of you are no doubt aware of the new Content Review checklists popping up across projects, but we wanted to formally introduce the feature.

These simple lists of action items designed for Content Reviewers will be part of each new project and have been added to many existing projects.

WD-6: Increased Chances for Self-Correction

Camden Swita — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:53:53 -0700

Getting feedback to writers and editors about their work is important to us.

WD-5: Doubling Down on Appeals

Camden Swita — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:59:32 -0700

As part of our continuing effort to improve worker experience at CloudCrowd, we’ve increased the number of appeals you can file in a 30-day period.

WD: 4 Promotions to Level 2

Adam — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:58:16 -0700

We have big news at CloudCrowd: the Level 2 Credential Initiative officially kicks off this week. Writers and editors who have a history of quality work will have a chance to receive nearly double pay and to participate in special projects that pay even more.

WD: 3 Secured Browsing on Facebook Now Supported

Adam — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:05:27 -0700

As part of our commitment to enhancing worker experience at CloudCrowd, we’ve made our Facebook application compatible with the social network’s new secured browsing settings.

We heard workers’ concerns in our Worker Support Forum about h

WD: 2 Modified Plagiarism Checker

Adam — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:04:52 -0700

Over the past two months, CloudCrowd has improved its plagiarism checker.

WD: 1 Content Reviews

Adam — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:58:37 -0700

For a long time, we’ve been having origin writer work immediately reviewed by a review editor.

Introducing WD-40: 40 Worker-Oriented Improvements

Adam — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:45:55 -0700

I’m pleased to announce the first of a new set of worker-oriented initiatives. Over the last year, the vast majority of energy here at Servio CloudCrowd headquarters has gone into work acquisition. In other words, filling the pipeline for workers.

Are Crowdsourced Content Sites Dead?

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:45:26 -0700

A “PrudentCloud”.

ABC TV Visits CloudCrowd Offices

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:59:48 -0800

ABC TV visited CloudCrowd yesterday to interview CEO Alex Edelstein about the power of crowdsourcing and the opportunities that internet outsourcing is opening up to people such as stay-at-home moms and retired professionals

When the Assembly Line Moves Online

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:57:52 -0800

“Fiendishly Clever”, says the New York Times’ Randy Stross about our business model in a recent column on our translation service in the Sunday New

CloudCrowd Profiled in Businessweek

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:53:20 -0800

CloudCrowd was recently profiled in Bloomberg Businessweek online in “Twelve Sites That Will Put You to Work Now.”

The story discusses the rapid growth of wide

Announcing: Changes to Review and Fix and How It Affects Editors

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:51:24 -0700

CloudCrowd recognizes that in some instances reviewing editors introduce new errors to a document.

New Enhancement to Review & Fix: Appealing the Fixes That Cost You A Quarter

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:32:42 -0700

It is a known problem that at times editors introduce errors to documents when they review and fix documents.

In order to improve quality and increase accountability, CloudCrowd is pleased to announce that editors will soon be able to appeal changes made during Review and Fix.

The primary goal is to allow edit

CloudCrowd Editing - Review and Fix

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:39:18 -0700

New Freelance Editing Feature for CloudCrowd

CloudCrowd listened to the feedback regarding work rejected for minor issues like a space missing after a comma or a small typo, and we are releasing a new version of the review process called "Review and Fix." Rather than simply rejecting work with minor fla

EditZen Heralds New Application

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:32:26 -0700

Take a look at this website: www.editzen.com.

New Worker Services

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:13:09 -0700