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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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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

The Realtime Report

Can social networks help with medical research? It started in 2009, when 23andMe decided to do genetic research and invited anyone diagnosed with Parkinson’s to donate their DNA sample. The company recruited people using social media, and at Parkinson’s research conferences.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Currently, her research focuses on various topics related to CRM software, sales, customer service and marketing strategy. This month, I surveyed end users to find out how they draw value from going social. Salesforce surveys, for example, show Chatter reduces email 30 percent and meetings 27 percent.

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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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Create a Customer Experience Strategy [FREE TEMPLATE]

Hootsuite

Do your research (AKA a competitive analysis). Spend some time researching the customer experience landscape. This in-depth guide on social media competitive analysis may give you some inspiration on how to tackle your customer experience research. Send out surveys. Try Hootsuite free for 30 days.

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How to use social media crowdsourcing effectively

Sprout Social

This is an example of social media crowdsourcing in action. When used correctly, social media crowdsourcing can be a powerful customer research tool. Let’s take a closer look at how you can use crowdsourcing for your business. What is crowdsourcing? First of all, what is crowdsourcing really?

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.