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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

Facebook tests new ‘buy’ button for online purchases in U.S. – Facebook is now testing a “buy” button that would allow consumers to purchase products directly from ads on the social network; so far the testing has included “a few small and medium-sized businesses” in the U.S.

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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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Turning Branded Contests Into Branded Content

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Branded contests never made it to primetime before the Social Web because brands could not defer attention from the main reason to be marketing in the first place: getting people to buy their products. crowdsource. iphone app. But things have changed. Chevy hits a speed bump. Gap is expecting over one million entries.

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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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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. Comcast said it would buy NBC. Tens of thousands of media professionals have lost their jobs in the past two years, crowdsourcing has sent some professional fees into a tailspin and veteran marketers are under threat if they don’t “get” social media.

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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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Crowdsourced Funding: How to ask for $75K but get $1.5million

Laurel Papworth

Casey Hopkins asked people to fund his new project to make a better dock for the iPhone. Kickstarter is an online community where you put up your project that you need funding, in this case to make a new dock for the iPhone. “You’re not just buying the thing, you’re creating it. He wanted $75,000 he got $1.5