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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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Turning Branded Contests Into Branded Content

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Us Marketers may have become a little gun-shy since 2006 when Chevy teamed up with the hit reality television series, The Apprentice , to launch its Chevy Tahoe SUV. Contrast this with Gap's aborted campaign to "crowdsource" its new logo design, which some saw as a cynical attempt to save face and score some free design work.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds. crowdsourcing. December 2006 (5). November 2006 (7). October 2006 (3). September 2006 (3). August 2006 (4). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (4). May 2006 (1). Easy RSS Updates with PingShot. Accessibility.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #224

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Mitch drove me back from Kingston to Montreal, after we had both attended the Podcasts Across Borders conference (back in 2006? Amazon''s crowdsourced publishing platform will launch soon for mystery, romance and sci-fi authors - Gigaom. "Mitch and I got to know each other in large part because of podcasting. Disruption of retail.

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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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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #134

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This behind-the-scenes look at reddit 's biggest-ever AMA is heartening, not just because it was actually fairly genuine, but because I believe crowdsourced, unfiltered threads of discussions are our best hope of improving today's hopelessly flawed representative-democracy model. Hat Tip to Tara Hunt for pointing me at this.

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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.