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Is Crowdsourcing Really the Industry’s Dark Side?

Waxing UnLyrical

Those words jumped out of my mouth when I learned what crowdsourcing was. With crowdsourcing you could simply log on to a website and get work from incredibly talented designers from all over the world, with different styles and approaches. Crowdsourcing forces them to do both and they resent it. Here is his guest post.].

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Introducing Stephen Tiano: Monday Muse #2

Ari Herzog

Stephen Tiano, a freelance book designer, page compositor, and layout artist, wrote a guest blog post here in February 2009 about his blogging and tweeting and how both contributed to his economic success. It was at this place that I really learned about how pages of books should look. Here is Stephen for the second week.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #134

Twist Image

But one thing you can't fault it for is how it handled social media. I'm nearly finished writing a book with Ben Yoskovitz , and I actually locked myself away in a hotel in Santa Clara for a couple of days to focus. LEGO is a brand unlike many others (it sits in the pantheons with Apple and Google , in my books).

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Yet with social media, there’s a perception that it’s easy to score freebies. Social media has introduced incentives to the online space, encouraging others to connect with your business. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread.

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

Convince & Convert

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. Because as a content consumption device, the iPad is simply without peer.

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

|Dan is not always able to tweet b/c of responsibilities or out on missions…but here are a couple more of my favorite tweets from Dan sent on 5/21 @AdScientist : ‘What is beautiful about social media are the relationships that can be built/started, conversations shared.’ CMO at EuroSpaClub International.

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How to Curate Content: The Secret Sauce to Getting Noticed, Becoming an Influencer, and Having Fun Online

Buffer Social

They browse communities where stories are gathered and upvoted — crowdsourced curation, more or less. There are unique people like this in almost every industry (Matt just so happens to be in social media) — and if there aren’t, then wow what a great opportunity for you to be the first! Price : Free.