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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It becomes a collective effort – Crowdsourcing also makes people feel like this is a team effort that not just one person is the most important piece to the puzzle. There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. As they saying goes, competition breeds excellence.

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Don’t be a Pest with “This Social Media Stuff”

Janet Fouts

Find their peer group and show them what they are missing, how they could use social media as a collaboration tool and for professional development. Let them understand you’re not asking them to spend all day on social networks and that training is available to help them learn the right way to engage if they need it.

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friendfeed Explosion

Koka Sexton

FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the Facebook news feed. It’s an idea that isn’t too difficult or bothersome for social network users to adopt. Leave a comment!

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

It looks like the predictions of email and social being two sides of the same coin are coming true. Meanwhile, if your social media team and your email team are not the same people, you need to start thinking about how to merge them, pronto. The next year is going to get very, very interesting.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I'm working with a Fortune 250 company right now on their social media strategy and I feel like I'm trying to make these points over and over and over with various senior management teams. Interesting thoughts via @jayber here: [link] [link] arikhanson What does the Exact Target/CoTweet marriage mean for you and your brand?

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20+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools

Webbiquity SMM

For example, (at last check) in the social networks category , three times as many (67 to 22) people loved ecademy as hated it, while more than twice as many (18,163 to 8,632) hated Facebook as loved it (not that Zuckerberg is terribly worried). 10 Must-Have Web Apps Every Internet User Would Love To Know by Smashing Apps. Tweet This!

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Get Your Social Media Operations Act Together | Blogging and.

Convince & Convert

If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction. If someone asks a question in a social space, make sure you have an expert on hand that can answer the question if it gets too technical for the day-to-day social listener. (via