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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. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

The main online community Facebook – and other social networks such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Livestreaming – have been appropriated for the Icelandic Government’s communications channels to it’s own people. Oddsson was removed on 26 February 2009 ( wikipedia ). Not much fun. Pretty bloody hard.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using Digg as an instrument to get Digg’s attention has never clearly had an impact until last week’s “revolt,&# and the only reason why it had an impact then was because it was done off Digg’s site (in this case, Ustream ) and had plenty of press people standing behind it.

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New Media Expo 2008 Wrap up & Ideas

Bare Feet Studios

If so, why were so many of the key podcasters and the podcast companies missing? I loved being interviewed on TWIT, Web Pro World, and Tech Zulu, along with Sunny’s live uStream. you could energize the community around podcasting (regardless of the list they fall on) and get more people there next time.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. Show them aspects of your company that they didn’t already know. That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social.

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Social Media is Scary - How to Address Junior Employees

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Social Media is Scary – How to Address Junior Employees Tue, Jan 27, 2009 Best Of , Best Practices , Social Media On one of my recent posts, Social Media is Scary , Rick posed some pretty valid questions that essentially boiled down to “yeah, social media is scary, but now what? Government 2.0

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.