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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Ability to crowdsource. Social media is an always-on focus group. And social media crowdsourcing —or turning to social for audience opinions, ideas and sentiment—is a powerful way to improve your content, products and your business as a whole. This also happens to be a great engagement booster.). Let's get spooky. ??

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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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The natural decay of business structures

The Way of the Web

The virtual agency should be a collaborative co-creation environment, and certainly the better ones seem to fit that build (Disclosure – I’m a member of both Blur Group and Guided Collective ). In terms of the impact, the change was massive, but in terms of the duration of the change, 200 years isn’t such a long time.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more. And in the workplace, more specific requirements and designs lower the cost to the point where investing is a case of direct comparison with a human equivalent.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free. On the other hand, in Internet Marketing, you sure can, so I wonder if it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison. I have no idea, really.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

I have found this to be a poor comparison. Cool, and a difference-maker, but not 100% transformative. Most of the chatter leading up to the iPad’s release was around how would it perform against standard computing tasks. I use my iPad instead of my iPhone, not instead of my MacBook. How can I help you?

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