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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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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. from Wikipedia ]. 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. BP aren’t that evil… are they?

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Oddsson was removed on 26 February 2009 ( wikipedia ). Metagovernment is alive and well. Not much fun. In English.

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YouTube Secrets, Content Curation and Writing Productivity Tips for Marketers!

Writtent Blog

4 Ideas for Crowdsourcing Content Creation and Promotion. The idea of crowdsourcing content is rather popular, and Wikipedia is one of the greatest examples but how do we implement it in our own content marketing strategy? First, check if you solicit and leverage your online community’s comments.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Much of this stuff is standard across any kind of online community, and I don’t claim to be very original in any of this. MediaWiki - the platform that Wikipedia, amongst many other wikis, runs on - is probably the best of the free self-hosted options. However, for what it’s worth, here are my thoughts: 1. 9 comments.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. Currency has no inherent value itself – only what we, the community, say it’s worth. Ripple Effect diagram showing that social media works opposite to traditional media.

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