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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. They want to document the world around them. People want to share.

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TruthForce! | How Wiki Software is Changing Communication

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Wiki software--easy-to-use programs that let anyone with Internet access create, remove and edit content on a Web page--first gained popularity thanks to Wikipedia, the user-generated encyclopedia that has come to be hailed as one of the Webs greatest resources. a sort of business MySpace. even involve constituents in policymaking.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Some of the resources you will find here include historical documents, manuscripts, artwork, maps, photos, letters and film. Other site features include a blog and a community forum. The site looks almost exactly like Wikipedia, but there is a difference between the two: Scholarpedia can be cited in research papers.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. Google Docs If you want to share and collaborate in the creation of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, then Google Docs is the best way to go.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. I was reading a recent interview with Andrew , who built the application out of a passion and a need — I don’t think anything like Quizlet exists anywhere else.

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Australia Sharepoint Conference June 16/17 2010

Laurel Papworth

One woman swears that you can’t collaboratively edit documents, and that that feature has been turned off. SharePoint can be used to host web sites that access shared workspaces , information stores and documents, as well as host-defined applications such as wikis and blogs. Which just sounds plain weird to me.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. These questions need to be asked before rolling out any type of social media application. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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