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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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Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As you may be aware I co-wrote the book Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) and I am in the middle of working on Facebook Advertising for Dummies (Wiley) right now. Tags: Advertising Crowdsourcing Facebook Marketing Social Media Social Networking Strategy behavioral targeting. How … Facebook! Tweet This! Share this on Reddit.

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What you can learn from Mister Splashy Pants

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Advertising guru Russell Davies praised Greenpeace’s handling of the campaign as “one of the defining moments in New Media marketing.&# The lesson to be learned from Mister Splashy Pants is: Crowdsourcing works but only if you let go and are open to the results. Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Facebook’s Like Button adds Life to your Content

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Research is showing that we will use the Like button for many things because its is one of the easiest social actions (easier than share) and can signify you like certain content, show you like a certain product, approve of an advertisement, or share your feeling for a video. Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

advertising. crowdsourcing. Join me at SAP in Palo Alto for a talk on Social Media and Influencers Joint Podcast with Andy Sernovitz on Paul Dunays Buzz Marketing blog User Generated Help and How-to Content Model 15 years at Microsoft, coming to an end.mixed emotions Not so much "Lovin it" Del.icio.us Networking. blogcouncil.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, in a test a colleague of mine ran with sponsored advertisements, the incentive-based campaign was much more successful than the original information-only campaign. In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free.

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