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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

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Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. billion the city invested to welcome over 1.5

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

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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. Social Media News Ticker BuzzFeed Brews CardSpring Events For You Facebook Facebook ''buy'' button Foursquare mentions Swarm Tumblr Twitter Vine Youtube YouTube 15'

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U-M Researchers Train Tech Tool to Find Relationship Clues from Written Conversations

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New research from the University of Michigan and Nokia Bell Labs has used crowdsourcing and a tech tool to detect how these characteristics are expressed in everyday language and how they shape social dynamics. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. They studied 1,772 relationships between 1,406 unique individuals.

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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

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As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days – CNN reported on this as early as 2009. They also rely on Twitter chats such as #AgChat to connect with other farmers and share information with each other.

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Monopoly Launches ‘Save Your Token’ Campaign on Facebook

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Monopoly is using Facebook and Twitter to get fans excited about a change in the classic board game. Fans can “campaign” to save their favorite token by sharing images and videos with their friends on Facebook and Twitter, and by using the hashtag #tokenvote. Which token will you be voting for?

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Social TV: Fans Tweet to Choose Hawaii Five-O Ending

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Networks want viewers to watch television programs live (with commercials and all), and social media – particularly Twitter – offers some interesting opportunities to keep audiences engaged. CBS’ Hawaii Five-O is giving viewers a big incentive to live-tweet during the show’s next episode.

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Social Media Contest: Send Your Facebook Profile On A Cape Town Holiday

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Back in September, we covered Cape Town’s “iAmbassador campaign” which combined travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city as a travel destination. That campaign resulted in over 36 million Twitter impressions in just three weeks.

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