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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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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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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?

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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. Craig Donnelly (@craigdonnelly) May 13, 2010. Reports from Customers. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600.

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ViperChill Monthly Report 3

Viper Chill

You are here: ViperChill » ViperChill » ViperChill Monthly Report 3 ViperChill Monthly Report 3 Written by Glen, this post has 28 Comments As I write this on the last day of 2009, I have to say that I can’t believe how quickly this year has went. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" It is a good motivator!

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

We ran the same exact report in Visible Technologies , and found approximately 150 tweets for the same phrases and date ranges. 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. Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. If, however, someone criticizes the report you've spent weeks writing, that's a little more intimidating.