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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites. Schweeeeeet.

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

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Tweet Instantaneous mobile photo sharing is becoming increasingly popular. The Facebook-owned mobile photo editing and sharing network Instagram has been around since October 2010 and by April 2012, the platform had 30 million users worldwide. How Threadless Engages its Community on Instagram.

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ISeeChange and NASA Launch Citizen Science App

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Communities in Harlem, New Orleans, and Los Angeles will pilot investigations that document environmental change and enhance climate research. “We’ve made something utterly unique–a way to combine stories and CO2 data that puts communities in charge of their own climate records,” said Drapkin. Community Investigations.

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Media and Mining vs Social Media and GetUp

Laurel Papworth

And taking out injunctions to stop social media “crowdsourcing” about her, her family and her business. Crowd sourcing is where individuals using mobile phones to track the movements of high-profile individuals and upload video of their activities to social media sites. ( Which is mining and media. What should we do?

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Social enterprise platforms provide a platform for crowdsourcing innovation – from responding to queries and surveys, to posting ideas in a group discussion threads. They cited issues with file sharing, inefficient search, lack of customization, and bugs with mobile functionality. Generate more, better ideas and boost engagement.

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Consumers Control The Brand (And Other New Media Myths)

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I'd even argue that they're getting increasingly smarter when it comes to Social Media and are doing a fairly good job of connecting and engaging in many of the online and mobile channels to give their brands a more human voice and offer consumers an opportunity to have some kind of real interaction between real human beings. crowdsource.

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The 12 Startups I’ve Invested In and Why

Convince & Convert

It’s secure, mobile-friendly, super easy to use, and affordable. Addvocate.com the Breather mobile app Breather – Quiet on Demand Breather is the brain-child of the uber-smart Julien Smith. Addvocate makes it happen. This is a corner of the social media world that will be accelerating quickly, I believe.

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