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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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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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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Lisa Barone made a really good point last month when she said that her productivity went up as a result of respecting her time. The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. Sadly, it absolutely has.

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The 21 Best Content Curation Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Lastly, if you’re using Instapaper in the Apple/iOS ecosystem, it can stream saved videos to your TV using AirPlay.” — Re/code. Sample review: “A content provider that emphasizes growing revenue and leads with strong, scalable content production. Marketing Insider Group (Startup). Pricing: free. 4) Flipboard. 9) RebelMouse.

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

He is a Communication and Marketing veteran, with a career that spans radio and television broadcasting, agency partnership, film & video production, and professional services consulting. Epi is a pioneer in the crowdsourcing ad model, and Founder & CEO of Ludvik + Partners @LAdvertising in NYC.

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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. It’s a concept you might be familiar with from Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Workweek or articles like this: How Batch Processing Made Me 10x More Productive. It’s a popular lifehacking and productivity tip, for sure!