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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. Keith Jenkins (@velvetescape) August 4, 2012.

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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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ISeeChange and NASA Launch Citizen Science App

The Realtime Report

Community reporting has already allowed ISeeChange to document early springs in 2012 and 2015 , longer growing seasons, marine life impacted by an unusually warm Pacific, ongoing droughts and wildfires, changing bird migration patterns, as well as increasing tick-borne diseases.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Dusty (@DustyHunt) January 3, 2012. 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?

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Gushcloud: Mobilizing Social Media Marketing

Mindjumpers

Consequently, representing Mindjumpers at this year’s conference included meeting with a variety of these passionate and engaged newcomers in the social media ballgame (see my blog post on BigMarker.com , April 3 rd 2012). Mobilizing target networks online.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Dusty (@DustyHunt) January 3, 2012. 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?

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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

Writtent Blog

Would you read something about a 2012 political election, or best practices for using MySpace? B2B buyers typically love conferences , and you can fulfill their hunger for details on professional events, even if your business budget didn’t have room for you to actually attend in-person. Probably not. Remember Yahoo Answers?

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