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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. crowdsourcing. Non-profit Communications.

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Copyright – Social Media SAVES your IP from plagiarists

Laurel Papworth

I think we are crowdsourcing this unIndustry association in an adhoc movement of anti-marketing anti-PR communities. It was either 2005 or 2006. A few years ago,I called for an “unIndustry&# association to protect user generated content (the little guy) from being ripped off by agencies and big content providers.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. Apparently both David and Jon have made their money back and more.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. ” She was named B2B Magazine’s 2012 Digital Marketer of Year. Liz Bonilla.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle. It happens in religious communities too.

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