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

The Realtime Report

farms are turning to Twitter and other social media tools as a support group to share information, gain insights and keep customers informed about changing conditions. A group called Open Food is collaborating on an open source API to share data about food.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

The Realtime Report

Betabrand’s first exposure to hackathons came earlier this year, when a group of Las Vegas-based developers invited Lindland to host a hackathon. Another group came up with an ad campaign that featured missing sock ads that they posted around town at foot level. If this is you, you’re not ready for a brand hackathon.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Or in this case, a clip of the donation: Completed group actions (and only completed group actions) have a 10% fee taken from their totals. Remember, there is no cost to set up a group action and everyone receives a complete refund if a group action expires. They have a clip-of-the-sale revenue model themselves.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? The messenger is the person, group, or organization that delivers the information to the audience. crowdsourcing.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

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It is however easy to set up and open source. Test it out on some of your initial group to get their thoughts. Now invite your initial group to come onto the wiki en-masse to start collaborating on the content. To get people involved beyond your core group of volunteers, you need to get eyeballs. 9 comments.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

As the CEO and Founder at TalentCulture Consulting Group, Meghan connects talent with technology companies as well as being an accomplished speaker and author. Our group is responsible for setting the strategy for the company’s global digital brand presence on cisco.com , social web sites and mobile. Meghan Biro. MeghanMBiro.

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