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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. By the way, only a totally evil company would ask the public for their ideas and then not even read them. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Schweeeeeet.

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Using Visual Recognition to Tap into the Consumer Mindset

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Advertising Applications Content Marketing Crowdsourcing Visual Recognition. All of these allow increasingly relevant interactions to follow a consumer across apps and the mobile web, all while waiting for the right moment. While interesting, however, this is not what I am talking about. Whether you call it Web 3.0

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

Mindjumpers

Tweet Instantaneous mobile photo sharing is becoming increasingly popular. 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. How Threadless Engages its Community on Instagram.

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What the Facebook Page Redesign Means for Businesses

Ignite Social Media

Facebook will enable Pages to include a new set of featured action buttons that will appear on their mobile Facebook pages. These crowdsourced recommendations will substitute traditional reviews. The new Recommendations section will take up a good portion of a Page on mobile, displaying before actual Page posts.

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8 Free Smartphone Apps that Earn You Money

Waxing UnLyrical

But the following apps are real, legitimate ways to make some extra money right from your mobile phone. Some notable companies that participate are Amazon, Home Depot, American Airlines, Bath and Body Works, Neiman Marcus, Fandango, and several others. Sounding even more unusual is the idea of making money directly from your phone.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

In this and similar scenarios, the employee would have otherwise “ relied on a central repository of all company’s experience that is located in one person’s head, or nowhere at all.”. Several companies responded to this story saying the platform was more “of a distraction” than a value driver. A Work in Progress.

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7 Ways to Take the Media World by Storm

Convince & Convert

These seven tips will create a powerful concoction that will be hard for any company, including media companies and your direct competitors, to compete with. Make Mobile Your Top Channel Strategy. Well, today , online auctions are just 10 percent of its total business — its payment and mobile business is half the company.