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Crowdsourcing & Spec Work: Not a Great Rule of Thumb

Waxing UnLyrical

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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What Is Crowdsourcing?

Small Business Mavericks

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new term. So now that you know what it is, can you use crowdsourcing for your small business? There are some dangers to crowdsourcing, however. The Web, however, has introduced some new technologies and services to help make crowdsourcing a more palatable process. I don’t see why not.

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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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Brands Using Social Media to Take a Stand Against Racism

Likeable

While a majority of these brands have remained silent in the past on similar issues, this time has been different. They have started to educate themselves further on anti-racism, their own privilege, and the issues that Black people have been facing in America for hundreds of years—and brands have followed suit. Stay tuned.

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Social Media for Sales

Webbiquity SMM

through co-creation and crowdsourcing ) and customer service ( Best Buy and Comcast for example) to human resources (outstanding HR tweeps: Sharlyn Lauby and Alicia Arenas ) and sales groups. If they are pointing out quality issues with a specific product, that’s an issue that members of the sales team need to be prepared to address.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Ability to crowdsource. And social media crowdsourcing —or turning to social for audience opinions, ideas and sentiment—is a powerful way to improve your content, products and your business as a whole. Another method of crowdsourcing ideas is by looking at conversations about your brand and industry. Let's get spooky. ??

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Social enterprise platforms provide a platform for crowdsourcing innovation – from responding to queries and surveys, to posting ideas in a group discussion threads. They cited issues with file sharing, inefficient search, lack of customization, and bugs with mobile functionality. Generate more, better ideas and boost engagement.