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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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What Is Crowdsourcing?

Small Business Mavericks

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new term. An organization puts out an open call for volunteers and receives input, feedback, and ideas into the production process. An organization puts out an open call for volunteers and receives input, feedback, and ideas into the production process. I don’t see why not.

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Crowdsourcing the Impact of Social Media on Non Profit Organizations

Direct Marketing Observations

The subject was obviously about Non Profit Organizations and how social media can play favorably with them. Last week we had the pleasure to have Beth Kanter host our weekly tweetchat over at Hashtag social media. This is the sweet spot for Beth and as a host, I have to say she was beyond amazing.

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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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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.

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Brands Using Social Media to Take a Stand Against Racism

Likeable

Throughout the past two months, many brands have been using their platforms (and their dollars) to support anti-racism organizations and the Black Lives Matter movement. Pernod Ricard: Crowdsourcing App. The technology uses crowdsourcing to surface hateful speech at scale. Stay tuned.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

In my opinion, social media’s top pro is the ability to connect organically with your audience and customer base.”. The better you know who you’re targeting, the more you can refine your strategy and expand your reach organically. Ability to crowdsource. Boosts transparency. Social media is an always-on focus group.