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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. million soccer fans back in 2010.

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

Mindjumpers

The Facebook-owned mobile photo editing and sharing network Instagram has been around since October 2010 and by April 2012, the platform had 30 million users worldwide. The community-based t-shirt company Threadless is a crowdsourcing business whose design is created and chosen by the online community.

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible December 24th, 2010 Tweet Note: this is not a religious post, and is meant neither to proselytize nor offend. pts Settings. Wanna Subscribe?

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Business has wanted to eavesdrop on customer conversations since the time of Pompeii, and now they can. Did the agency use a crowdsourced idea to devise the talking bag concept? The description notes that it was created for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl crowdsourced video contest in 2010.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Business has wanted to eavesdrop on customer conversations since the time of Pompeii, and now they can. Did the agency use a crowdsourced idea to devise the talking bag concept? The description notes that it was created for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl crowdsourced video contest in 2010.

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

" - Clay Shirky at TED Cannes in June 2010. After engaging in that conversation about your favorite burrito, it's suddenly easier to join the conversation about the new IT policy. "Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals."

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

A chat is an online conversation with one or more people. Chat” can also be used to mean a moderated public conversation on social media, organized around a hashtag. Comments can offer praise, ask a question, express disagreement, and otherwise contribute to the online conversation about your social content. Conversion.

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