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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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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

You can’t use Facebook’s new iPhone app — unless you’re famous – a new iPhone app, Mentions, is now available for download by everyone, but only for use by “verified public figures” on Facebook; celebrities who’ve been testing the app have posted twice as much as before (re/code).

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Online advertising was banners and e-mails. The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. The following is the guest post by Paul Gillin: As we head into the second decade of the new millennium, it’s amazing to think how much has changed in such a short time. Big media brands dominated the Web.

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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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17 Digital Marketing Experts Share Their Top Tips, Tricks, and Tools

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Advertising the campaign and making it seem popular already can help build that success. For some campaign, spending money in advertising can be worth it to jump start the program. I have it on my Blackberry, but I assume it’s on the iPhone as well. I’m always using my social networks to crowdsource.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

I use my iPad instead of my iPhone, not instead of my MacBook. In truth, the touch mechanics of the iPad are virtually identical to the iPhone. Little iPhone games like solitaire become substantially more engaging on the iPad. The virtual keyboard is barely better than the iPhone, and you still cannot touch type.

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A New Twist on Content

Social Media Marketing

Geeky or cult following celebrations : Talk Like a Pirate Day, Elvis Week, Shark Week, Comic-Con opens, iPhone 5 announcement, etc. awareness), acknowledgement of "Gangnam Style" going viral (as "horse dance") As the campaign neared its conclusion, it was announced that the final image in the series would be crowdsourced.

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