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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. As they saying goes, competition breeds excellence.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Experiment with Flickr and/or YouTube groups to build media for specific events. Marvel Comics raised my impression of this with their Hulk statue Flickr group). Start a community group on Facebook or Ning or MySpace or LinkedIn around the space where your customer does business. and Mogulus, or Qik on a cell phone.

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Moments and The Power of Not Laughing

Almost Savvy

Creating that safe environment where the only agenda is helping each other, thereby gaining more for yourself than could be imagined, is one of the key concepts behind the groups I lead. It’s amazing how connecting people from all over the country eliminates the *competition* that is normally felt in networking groups.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. Lijit Search. Some Last Thoughts. Check your contact settings.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I offered a model of an environment with six channels for: authoring, syndicating information, communication, collaboration and networking, researching, and evaluation. Several advanced students (2-3 from each group) participated in this experiment. Lijit Search. Tony Karrer. widgetOlab. eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0

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