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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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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. His chronicle of an online study group at Ryerson University is a perfect example of the ramifications of widespread interconnectivity that society will be wrestling with into the future.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

It’s another hugely interesting impact of gaming as the interactive entertainment medium which has risen up to compete with traditional entertainment forms (TV, radio, print), and at the same time powers so many new entertainment forms (Facebook’s gaming population is massive, as one example).

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position Sun, Jan 18, 2009 Prof. At EPA, for example, a new employee came up with the idea of doing a contest on YouTube to create outstanding videos to teach people about testing for radon. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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What Does Government 2.0 Mean to Me?

Social Media Strategery

Thu, Sep 3, 2009 Government 2.0 It’s about updating policies because of the conversations you had on the blog, it’s about using a wiki to deliver better intelligence analysis to our country’s decision makers, and it’s about opening up government data to crowdsource IT development , saving money increasing innovation.

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