A sub-segment of the human cloud, “crowdsourcing” is described in this year’s edition of Staffing Industry Analysts’ online lexicon of workforce solutions ecosystem terms as an online platform model that enables work assignments to get parsed out and performed — often as disaggregated “microtasks” — by a far-flung “crowd” of independent workers who perform (paid or otherwise compensated/incented) work at will. For the full definition, go to lexicon.staffingindustry.com.