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What you can learn from Mister Splashy Pants

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Mister Splashy Pants quickly became an internet meme, and later the subject of a TED talk by reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian. The lesson to be learned from Mister Splashy Pants is: Crowdsourcing works but only if you let go and are open to the results. Tags: Buzz Marketing Cause Marketing Crowdsourcing PR Social Media.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

From stories of triumph to funny social media memes , social has the power to spark a smile. Ability to crowdsource. And social media crowdsourcing —or turning to social for audience opinions, ideas and sentiment—is a powerful way to improve your content, products and your business as a whole. Social media can bring joy.

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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

Writtent Blog

As Marketer Kendra Mack points out, it’s a particularly powerful tool if you’re looking to start creating branded memes. The website has been dubbed a “meme breeding ground,” and it’s the perfect place to discover images and concepts that are just beginning to gain steam. Remember Yahoo Answers?

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Threadless Shares 10 Years of Insights and Inspiration

Convince & Convert

Tweet Threadless – everyone’s favorite T-shirt purveyor and example of crowdsourcing and customer community success – recently published a terrific 10th anniversary book that combines company history with dozens of its best designs. A fascinating aspect of the book is to see the T-shirt styles change over time.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds. crowdsourcing. Easy RSS Updates with PingShot. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Accessibility. accountability. application. Associations. Best practices. case studies. collaboration. Conferences. CSAE and ASAE. data backup. E-mail marketing. membership.

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5 Ways You Can Use Facebook Groups to Benefit Your Blog

ProBlogger

Sharing endless memes just to get engagement? It’s both crowdsourcing and marketing perfection – creating something based on what people actually want and is relevant to them. When you think of using Facebook for your blog, what comes to mind? Declining organic reach? Pay to play?

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A New Twist on Content

Social Media Marketing

Real-time memes and news : a heat wave, births of animals in captivity, the deaths of Nora Ephron, Neil Armstrong and Phillis Diller, the discovery of a lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting, the reports of a "lion" roaming around Essex (note the non-U.S.

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