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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Tens of thousands of media professionals have lost their jobs in the past two years, crowdsourcing has sent some professional fees into a tailspin and veteran marketers are under threat if they don’t “get” social media. Woe to organizations that don’t listen. The contraction of mass-market media has brought plenty of pain.

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The New Media Journalists

Proactive Report

Find, aggregate, give context and meaning to the news. Use crowdsourcing. Can you be part of their crowdsourcing? How can you be a resource who adds value to their task? Make all the people involved with the newspaper part of your community, Be interactive. Be a curator of the news.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This crowdsourced, automated method of discovering popular content was a drastic improvement in how we found interesting information and media on a daily basis. I will also cover some of the popular ways that power users use useful services and features to better organize and aggregate the constant flow of high quality, popular content.

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How to Land and Keep Clients in the Social Media Business

Socialmedia.biz

With 27% of the total internet time being spent on social networking platforms, it comes as no surprise that small, medium and large businesses are investing time in improving their online presence for brand positioning, data crowdsourcing, lead generation and customer relationship building opportunities.

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How to Analyze What Works for Your Audience

Sprout Social

Use an aggregator like Feedly to source content to share. Your current customers are an extremely valuable resources for content ideas, don’t overlook them. The popular crowdsource graphic design site 99Designs was actually started because the company’s founder Matt Mickiewicz listened to his audience.

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Social Pros 26 – Richard Owen, Satmetrix

Convince & Convert

I picked up a nasty cold when I was gone for last Monday’s show unfortunately, but I’m pressing through with the help of a crowdsourced regiment from Facebook. It’s money budget that comes out of somebody’s money budget too, because it often requires some sort of external resource or software to do that.

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