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Lanyrd: Social Media Conferences & More

Jason Yormark

A few weeks ago I stumbled across another gem, Lanyrd and it’s officially my go to site for all things conferences. Lanyrd uses your Twitter account to effectively crowdsource conference information and it’s working. I’m always a fan of great UI and simplicity in execution, and Lanyrd nails both.

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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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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

Writtent Blog

B2B buyers typically love conferences , and you can fulfill their hunger for details on professional events, even if your business budget didn’t have room for you to actually attend in-person. Conferize curates leading conferences, and the content and social media surrounding these events. Remember Yahoo Answers?

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

You could say that in addition to being a great story teller, he was the ultimate crowdsourcer. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Public Relations , Social Media | Tags: christmas , evangelizers , jesus as a crowdsourcer | Comments (3) Site settings comment help? And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent.

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Copyright – Social Media SAVES your IP from plagiarists

Laurel Papworth

I think we are crowdsourcing this unIndustry association in an adhoc movement of anti-marketing anti-PR communities. A few months later, I was sitting at a conference (in the audience) and the creative director of a well known Sydney agency presented my presentation. Someone had taken good notes at the conference.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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Could the internet make us all nicer people?

The Way of the Web

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Marketing Week Live – pre-event for bloggers Why does the UK budget reward print and punish web? Will it lead to a more pleasant environment, or will it end up like a bad reality show as the pressure of the crowdsourced surveillance becomes too much?