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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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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

The Realtime Report

As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days – CNN reported on this as early as 2009. Now, with the drought of 2012 creating extreme conditions for farmers across a great swath of the U.S.,

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

Idaconcpts

I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets: We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. Jeremy Floyd (@jfloyd) July 24, 2009. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600. Cost for zoho is $300. About Zoho.

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

You could say that in addition to being a great story teller, he was the ultimate crowdsourcer. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Public Relations , Social Media | Tags: christmas , evangelizers , jesus as a crowdsourcer | Comments (3) Site settings comment help? What an interesting bunch of people he brought together.

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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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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Oddsson was removed on 26 February 2009 ( wikipedia ). Oddsson was removed on 26 February 2009 ( wikipedia ).

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #195

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"Is crowdsourcing good? I have been going since 2009 (can''t believe it has been that long). crowdsourcing. crowdsourcing. If we want to report on the future, we need to understand the decisions these algorithms make." " (Alistair for Hugh). Or just pictures of cats all the way down? arstechnica.