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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. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites. Schweeeeeet.

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Crowdsourcing Logo Design on a Budget

Idaconcpts

Make sure to include exposure in relevant and reputable media channels among the incentives for your contestants. Great logo design is not cheap! However, through a carefully planned logo design contest can allow you to get the best return for your investment.

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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. Social media is being used in multiple functions across the enterprise, from product development (e.g. Share this on Reddit. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

But it can be huge for your reputation—responsiveness leads to a more favorable view of your company. 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. Let's get spooky. ??

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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

So for companies and corporates, when we talk about amortisation of the intangibles, we’re protecting brand assets, brand reputation. What happens to an oil company’s reputation if there’s an oil spill in the Galapagos? What happens to Coca Cola’s reputation if there’s a poisoning of Coca Cola bottles?

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What Social Media Lesson Did Gap Learn?

Direct Marketing Observations

They decided to go from this… To this… Ouch… Without really knowing the full back story but having a good feel for when major retailers and companies crowdsource new ideas, I think it’s safe to say that Gap really didn’t reach out to its user base to find out what they might think. “ So. lesson learned?