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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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How Brands Use Digital Events to Engage Their Customers

Pixlee

billion people watched the Apple iPhone event of September 2019 live on YouTube. Crowdsource topics, themes, and content. An EventTrack 2018 survey observed that 85% of users are likely to buy a product after participating in an event. Samsung’s latest event had over 58 million live-stream viewers across the globe.

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Needle Threads Customers Into Personal Interactions in New, Social Chat Service

Stay N' Alive

When Needle demoed me their product, they showed off, in real time, a session of a real customer service experience. In the experience, the customer was looking for a product, and the customer service agent was able to see this, in real time. Crowdsourced Sales using Pincushion. Focus on true conversions.

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Can You Trust Social Media Sources?

Net-Savvy Executive

Common words as brand names pose a similar challenge (I always like the examples of Apple and Orange, because it's the one time you really can compare them). It may lead to malware or fraud, or to some sort of product for sale. If people are honest and expressing their real opinions, it's hard enough to find what you're looking for.

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

If you want to create a vibrant culture of collaboration, you need to be OK with pictures of LOLCats, posts about the NFL playoffs, arguments about Apple and Android, and criticism of company policies. If you will freak out when you see this on your Intranet, you're probably not ready for a social intranet. It doesn't work like that.

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Introducing Stephen Tiano: Monday Muse #2

Ari Herzog

My website regularly attracts people interested in having books designed and prepared for production. Surprisingly, tweeting as @StephenTiano has been the most productive. The web has been a major part of my finding work, connecting with prospective clients, promoting myself, and being found by potential clients.

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Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE

Writtent Blog

Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, a former evangelist at Apple and the author of 12 books now. Helen: When writing Ape , you actually used crowdsource mechanisms quite a few times in order to get design and feedback from your followers. Do you think crowdsourcing is a good way to approach creation and why? Guy Kawasaki.