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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

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How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? What capabilities might the next social networks have to “improve&# our intimacy with our online friends? Pollygraf, as its name implies, is the truthful social network.

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

The Realtime Report

. – Facebook is now testing a “buy” button that would allow consumers to purchase products directly from ads on the social network; so far the testing has included “a few small and medium-sized businesses” in the U.S.

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The Next Big Thing After Twitter! Is FourSquare The Answer?

Atom Thought

To start with I have always been very impressed with the idea of using location based targeting with social networks (though I understand that people always may not want to reveal their locations and may be averse to this concept). Related Posts: CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better! Mobile Marketing!

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

This does NOT have to be Not For Profits – social networks that have a “community&# feel, can also connect with the goodwill of the members and seek donations as a revenue stream. I also mentioned The Burrito Project on my “ Social NETWORKS are much more than Social MEDIA &# here is the wikipedia page.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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Crowdsourced Funding: How to ask for $75K but get $1.5million

Laurel Papworth

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. and crowdsourcing technology solutions, not just the money that helped. He wanted $75,000 he got $1.5