article thumbnail

#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.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. The oil spill covers a surface area of at least 2,500 square miles (6,500 km 2 ) according to estimates reported on May 3, 2010 byReuters. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? BP aren’t that evil… are they? from Wikipedia ].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

article thumbnail

6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

For a major event like a college BCS bowl game, it’s not inconceivable that Frito-Lay could have been in contact with ESPN in real-time, and told them which spot to run a second time. Did the agency use a crowdsourced idea to devise the talking bag concept? This has implications for rotation and optimization of broadcast.

Sentiment 115
article thumbnail

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

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.