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

The Realtime Report

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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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. Some individual bloggers have gone ahead and asked their readers for a Oil Spill solution – and got a variety of answers from readers – but apparently BP aren’t listening. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? Schweeeeeet.

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Crowdsourcing Logo Design on a Budget

Idaconcpts

The other day I encountered an interesting Venn diagram about graphic design: This diagram reminded me about how difficult is to find a great logo design for a blogger on a tight budget. Besides the prize money, offer free press for the winner in places other than just your site (unless, you’re a mega blogger star!).

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Get Happy: Putting Yourself into Your Brand’s Personality

Convince & Convert

Debbie Gioquindo and Keryl Pesce , co-founders of Happy B h Wines , join the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the powerful story behind their brand’s origins, the crowdsourcing approach that helped their business bloom, and some wacky giveaways that have earned them some well-deserved attention. Partnering Up.

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Lanyrd: Social Media Conferences & More

Jason Yormark

Lanyrd uses your Twitter account to effectively crowdsource conference information and it’s working. I’d love to see a more user friendly badge feature to give bloggers an easy way to implement dynamic content to their sites regarding their conference participation. Also Facebook integration would be a plus.

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How to Run a Successful Facebook Contest for Your Business

Rebekah Radice

Product development crowdsourcing. These contests are great for generating engagement, good marketing, and crowdsourcing information. Crowdsource Contest. You can crowdsource things by asking fans to help you choose a new logo, book name or book cover, or even decide on your next blog topic. Higher brand awareness.