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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. Crowdsourcing forces them to do both and they resent it. Here is his guest post.].

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Facebook Contest: Lay’s Uses Crowdsourcing to Find New Flavor

The Realtime Report

Lay’s is one of the latest brands to experiment with crowdsourcing on social media — by allowing consumers to submit recipes for a new chip, and fans on Facebook to vote for the best new flavor.

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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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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites. Schweeeeeet.

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Social Media Marketing in the Midst of COVID-19

Ignite Social Media

List the questions you have about your job/industry/area of expertise? If you don’t have all the answers, perhaps crowdsource some of them and share? Do you have someone who was scheduled to hold a workshop that can now record it and hold it virtually? Is your team doing something that others might like to copy?

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Inside The Arboretum: How Sprout built a 10,000-member strong community

Sprout Social

Stay current with industry trends Social media is one of the most dynamic spaces in marketing, where new platforms emerge weekly and algorithms seem to change even faster than that. Having a reliable brand community you can lean on to stay ahead of emerging industry trends is invaluable. Here’s a look at some of them.

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Brands Using Social Media to Take a Stand Against Racism

Likeable

Pernod Ricard: Crowdsourcing App. Pernod Ricard announced its plan to create a crowdsourcing app that allows consumers and brands to collaborate with one another to drive real change. We need more action and more people within the broader industry to find more solutions. ? ? Stay tuned.