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Facebook Contest: Lay’s Uses Crowdsourcing to Find New Flavor

The Realtime Report

Lay’s is one of the latest brands to experiment with crowdsourcing on social media — by allowing consumers to submit recipes for a new chip, and fans on Facebook to vote for the best new flavor.

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Crowdsource Your Way to the Best Landing Page

Convince & Convert

In the design space, crowdsourcing is being embraced as an efficient way to tap into the mindset of the customer and mine ideas directly from target audiences. Landing pages are ripe for optimization through crowdsourcing. By crowdsourcing feedback on your landing page design, you’re provided the benefit of fresh eyes.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. From social networking to video sharing and social messaging, there’s something for everyone (and every business). Types of social media. Social networking. Social messaging.

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

Mindjumpers

The Facebook-owned mobile photo editing and sharing network Instagram has been around since October 2010 and by April 2012, the platform had 30 million users worldwide. The community-based t-shirt company Threadless is a crowdsourcing business whose design is created and chosen by the online community.

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

The Realtime Report

But sharing on social networks has helped inspire viewers to view in realtime, so they can chat and share with their friends as the action unfolds onscreen. For this campaign, CBS filmed three different endings for the Hawaii Five-O episode, with each one revealing a different killer.

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

The Realtime Report

The campaign launched this past Monday (October 2) and will run until the end of December 2012. Du Toit-Hembold believes the campaign “will give thousands of people a chance to do a virtual ‘test drive’ of a trip to Cape Town in a really engaging way, and it should whet appetites around the world resulting in more arrivals for Cape Town.”.

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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? The world’s first genetics-based social network – as 23andMe labels itself – is looking to show they can.

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