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Is Crowdsourcing Really the Industry’s Dark Side?

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Those words jumped out of my mouth when I learned what crowdsourcing was. With crowdsourcing you could simply log on to a website and get work from incredibly talented designers from all over the world, with different styles and approaches. Crowdsourcing forces them to do both and they resent it. Here is his guest post.].

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Crowdsourcing & Spec Work: Not a Great Rule of Thumb

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Since I respect her opinion, I invited her to guest post on WUL as to why she doesn't think crowdsourcing is the way to go. So let’s talk about exactly what happens when a project gets crowdsourced: The company is looking for a designer for web or print work. The Downfalls of Crowdsourcing. Guest post by Kirsten Wright. [Ed:

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8 Free Smartphone Apps that Earn You Money

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The Field Agent app uses crowdsourcing to get various types of data from its business clients. You set the price, and then drivers contact you if they want to rent your driveway for a couple of hours up to a couple of weeks. It’s still a small operation, but growing quickly. Field Agent.

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

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You could say that in addition to being a great story teller, he was the ultimate crowdsourcer. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Public Relations , Social Media | Tags: christmas , evangelizers , jesus as a crowdsourcer | Comments (3) Site settings comment help? What an interesting bunch of people he brought together.

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It’s a Mad Mad (Men) World

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or, The Horror CrowdSourcing and Social Media has Unleashed on Madison Avenue. This isn’t just about lost revenue and respective trickle down, this is also about the departure of mass media and the arrival of social media and crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing also eliminates the middle man, the ad agency. Mind blowing.

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Taking Your Blog Post Series on the Road

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Nick Kellet is co-founder of the social curation platform Listly , that combines crowdsourcing, content curation and embedable lists to drive high-level community engagement, live inside your blog posts. Guest post and blog post series are a great way to make friends. So what’s stopping you? What variation can you dream up? .