The Realtime Report

JULY 21, 2014

Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube and Vine: Facebook. Any social media updates that we missed? Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

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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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Casey Hopkins asked people to fund his new project to make a better dock for the iPhone. Kickstarter is an online community where you put up your project that you need funding, in this case to make a new dock for the iPhone. This is not media business as usual. Broadcast time is instant, Social media time is slower.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 15, 2014

Inspired by science, technology and innovation, General Electric has partnered with The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to host a series of Fallonventions segments and launch a new crowdsourced #SomeoneShouldInvent social media campaign. The GIFs have been shared across GE’s Tumblr , Twitter and a dedicated Giphy page.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Yet with social media, there’s a perception that it’s easy to score freebies. Social media has introduced incentives to the online space, encouraging others to connect with your business. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread.

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