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Interesting Crowdsourcing Cases:MJ’s New Video, Iceland’s Constitution

Mindjumpers

Tweet A lot of videos and forums where opinions are crowdsourced have recently come to my attention. The council also has Twitter , YouTube , and Flickr accounts and is streaming all of its meetings live. Now a look at MJ’s Crowdsourced video: Similar Posts: 5 Great Social Media Initiatives in 2010.

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Is Crowdsourcing Really the Industry’s Dark Side?

Waxing UnLyrical

Those words jumped out of my mouth when I learned what crowdsourcing was. With crowdsourcing you could simply log on to a website and get work from incredibly talented designers from all over the world, with different styles and approaches. Image: JD Hancock via Flickr, CC 2.0. Crowdsourcing forces us to refine our businesses.

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Crowdsourcing & Spec Work: Not a Great Rule of Thumb

Waxing UnLyrical

Since I respect her opinion, I invited her to guest post on WUL as to why she doesn't think crowdsourcing is the way to go. So let’s talk about exactly what happens when a project gets crowdsourced: The company is looking for a designer for web or print work. The Downfalls of Crowdsourcing. Guest post by Kirsten Wright. [Ed:

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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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8 Free Smartphone Apps that Earn You Money

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Jewels Globe URL via Flickr, CC 2.0. The Field Agent app uses crowdsourcing to get various types of data from its business clients. But with data plans and phone upgrades costing us a fortune nowadays, wouldn’t it be nice to have a couple of apps that could earn you some of that money back for a change? Field Agent.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Flickr Photos are deadly dull to me. Metagovernment is alive and well. In English. Not many followers, yet.

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Martin LaBar via Flickr, Creative Commons And even many non-Christians will be relaxing, perhaps joining in the revelry (as many of my friends did when I was growing up in India). You could say that in addition to being a great story teller, he was the ultimate crowdsourcer. Regardless, thanks for visiting!