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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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Will ‘Technology’ Survive the Recession?

Atom Thought

NORTEL at one point in time commanded almost 33% of Canadian stock market value and boasted of a stock market value of over USD250b before filing for bankruptcy as we entered the year 2009. Is 2009 worse than 2001? CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better! Circuit City declares bankruptcy! Image Source: [link].

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Online advertising was banners and e-mails. Fast forward to 2009. Tens of thousands of media professionals have lost their jobs in the past two years, crowdsourcing has sent some professional fees into a tailspin and veteran marketers are under threat if they don’t “get” social media. Big media brands dominated the Web.

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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. The illustrator who is making the allegation made us aware of her concerns in November 2009 and we duly responded to her in early December, since when we had heard nothing….until My Plagiarism story. until today.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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What BP could have done better – a counterpoint

Jeff Esposito

In this case, the combination led to what someone who does marketing for BP probably thought was a genuine, smart advertising campaign. Forget the commercials and spend the advertising budget organizing community events in the Gulf. Crowdsource.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

There is zero advertising on JaneNation.com, and there never will be. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. Women are routinely misunderstood or ignored by advertisers despite their unprecedented purchasing power and loyalty to brands that earn their trust.