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

The Realtime Report

A group called Open Food is collaborating on an open source API to share data about food. The other side of the supply chain is becoming more connected to realtime data feeds, too. The company recently announced a new partnership that would connect its data not only to restaurants, but also to home cooks.

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ISeeChange and NASA Launch Citizen Science App

The Realtime Report

Communities in Harlem, New Orleans, and Los Angeles will pilot investigations that document environmental change and enhance climate research. 2015 ranked as the hottest year in recorded history and some researchers think that we have entered the era where we will not see atmospheric carbon dioxide fall below 400ppm.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

How brands can use discussion forums: Crowdsource product feedback and ideas in relevant forum threads. Overview: Community blogging sites are platforms where people can come together to write articles, share ideas and collaborate on projects. Collecting customer research and insights. Examples: Reddit, Quora and Stack Overflow.

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Insider Trading, meet Outsider Traders, #SocialMedia style #Tesla

Laurel Papworth

The example below is from Tesla community but I betcha we could crowdsource Outsider Trading information on any product or brand or company… (Note: Australian Companies MUST report social media discussions that impact stock ). Tesla car owners are collaborating on VIN numbers. Wall Street should be monitoring social media.

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. Second, that making collaboration more convenient will inexorably cause it to become more commonplace. Shirky is realistic in his assessment of collaborations strengths and weaknesses.

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