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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. billion the city invested to welcome over 1.5

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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. The oil spill covers a surface area of at least 2,500 square miles (6,500 km 2 ) according to estimates reported on May 3, 2010 byReuters. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. from Wikipedia ].

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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

I recently experienced two events—one good, one bad—that show Twitter at its best. It was a fairly geeky tool, and it was real-time only, but it was nice to connect with the event I couldn't attend. Sharing damage reports. Media reports. I won't say that Twitter is only good for events.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

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Facebook testing redesigned events page with ‘Events For You’ section – Facebook is testing a new layout/redesign of its events page, which will feature an “Events for You” section; the test includes a few users worldwide before a “mid-paced” rollout over the next few weeks (AllFacebook).

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Now, social media has gone from a “nice to have” to a “must-have” for businesses, as it has become a core place for audiences to connect, get updates on current events and capture moments. Ability to crowdsource. Another method of crowdsourcing ideas is by looking at conversations about your brand and industry.

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ISeeChange and NASA Launch Citizen Science App

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Community reporting has already allowed ISeeChange to document early springs in 2012 and 2015 , longer growing seasons, marine life impacted by an unusually warm Pacific, ongoing droughts and wildfires, changing bird migration patterns, as well as increasing tick-borne diseases. ” Click To Tweet.