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

The Realtime Report

As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days – CNN reported on this as early as 2009. Using social media and video to promote it, they generated $10,000 in the first 10 days, as reported by Grist.

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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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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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The Cost of a Tribe

Akamai Marketing

Tweet “Just Do A Social Media Advocacy Campaign” In social media and in other areas, we’ve been seeing a big surge in “advocacy” and “crowdsourcing.” Gamers and social media sites have figured out a lot about our motivations over the years. social media'

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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. Future of Social Media?

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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.