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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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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

I recently experienced two events—one good, one bad—that show Twitter at its best. Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ). It's interesting to see that NWS is experimenting with crowdsourcing storm reports via Twitter.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #195

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"Is crowdsourcing good? Way back in 2007, a friend and ex-Montrealer, illustrator/animator, Matt Forsythe , decided that CBC News should have a Twitter feed. I''m lucky, as a professional speaker, I get to attend hundreds of events every year. crowdsourcing. crowdsourcing. " (Alistair for Hugh).

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Industry news and upcoming events. crowdsourcing. event managment.

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7 Ways to Take the Media World by Storm

Convince & Convert

For crowdsourcing , look at Crowdsource. For example, we did this in the content marketing niche in 2007. For content distribution , look at Disqus , Outbrain , PRNewswire or Taboola. For marketing automation , look at Marketo , Eloqua Oracle or Act-On Software. Most brands try to boil the ocean with their content.

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What Happens After Your System Notices Something Important?

Net-Savvy Executive

In 2007, I pointed out the need to link social media monitoring to customer service , because most of the problems that people were seeing as PR problems started with unhappy customers. It's the web-powered news channel that always shows something you might care about.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #224

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I even like his hair style ;) This is a fascinating turn of events, and it''s coming from someone who knows a thing or two about technology. 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.

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