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The Cost of a Tribe

Akamai Marketing

Tweet “Just Do A Social Media Advocacy Campaign” In social media and in other areas, we’ve been seeing a big surge in “advocacy” and “crowdsourcing.” So have mobile phone companies, which is why your obsessed with checking your email on your phone. We act almost instinctually.

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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.

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

Idaconcpts

I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets: We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600. Cost for zoho is $300. Craig Donnelly (@craigdonnelly) May 13, 2010.

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8 Free Smartphone Apps that Earn You Money

Waxing UnLyrical

But with data plans and phone upgrades costing us a fortune nowadays, wouldn’t it be nice to have a couple of apps that could earn you some of that money back for a change? But the following apps are real, legitimate ways to make some extra money right from your mobile phone. Image: Jewels Globe URL via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

People used mobile phones to talk. The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. Tens of thousands of media professionals have lost their jobs in the past two years, crowdsourcing has sent some professional fees into a tailspin and veteran marketers are under threat if they don’t “get” social media.

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What Bill Gates Predicted About Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

Its most intrinsic value was that it could be spread globally at little cost. Lacking in resources, they recruited CrowdSource to help them expand beyond reviews and menus. Together, CrowdSource and Urbanspoon created an online dining dictionary , where food definitions included fun facts, taste attributes, and associated flavors.

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Case of Creative Crowdsourcing: Let Your Fans Guide Your Brand

Mindjumpers

That statement inspired me to present you with a good example of a company that allowed its fans to speak up through an engaging, creative and inspiring crowdsourcing campaign that I think we can all learn from. Statistics: Facebook on Mobile [INFOGRAPHIC]. The “Do Us a Flavor” Campaign. “ Problem solving.