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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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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

My recommendations are based on my work with MarketingProfs and Salesforce to add social frosting to their already fabulous events, and my experiences speaking at several dozen conferences annually. Plus, every conference has the same MVP attendee: some guy named Google. Collaborate with your speakers to produce teaser content.

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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

My recommendations are based on my work with MarketingProfs and Salesforce to add social frosting to their already fabulous events, and my experiences speaking at several dozen conferences annually. Plus, every conference has the same MVP attendee: some guy named Google. Collaborate with your speakers to produce teaser content.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #195

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"Is crowdsourcing good? "I begin my annual pilgrimage out West to the TED conference on Monday (it''s now being held in Vancouver). It''s a controversial conference that is constantly being slapped around in the media. crowdsourcing. ted conference. crowdsourcing. ted conference. bitcurrent.

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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia

The Realtime Report

In a paper being presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , the researchers describe a text-generating system that pinpoints and replaces specific information in relevant Wikipedia sentences, while keeping the language similar to how humans write and edit. Neutrality Masking and Fusing. in matching grammar.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. 5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags. Find them.

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The 12 Startups I’ve Invested In and Why

Convince & Convert

I was having dinner with a friend at the National Speakers Association conference a few days ago. Great for a conference call, small meeting, a quick “breather” when you’re traveling, actors working on their lines, etc. I mentioned that I am an investor in that company, and Chris said, “You are?

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