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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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Pringles and Star Wars Channel The Force For Fun in Crowdsourced Video Contest

Convince & Convert

In a galaxy not so far away, a popular snack food brand, Pringles, has joined forces with the iconic movie franchise, Star Wars, to launch a crowdsourced video contest. The contest is hosted on Tongal , a platform that facilitates creative and video content for brands through crowdsourcing.

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Crowdsource Your Way to the Best Landing Page

Convince & Convert

In the design space, crowdsourcing is being embraced as an efficient way to tap into the mindset of the customer and mine ideas directly from target audiences. Landing pages are ripe for optimization through crowdsourcing. By crowdsourcing feedback on your landing page design, you’re provided the benefit of fresh eyes.

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Social Intelligence adds value throughout the Stage Gate Process

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social data is becoming increasingly important in the new product development processes of many companies. Social data can also be invaluable in the media planning and buying process. Later, when launch is imminent, social channels are becoming a key factor in setting media and advertising strategies.

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U-M Researchers Train Tech Tool to Find Relationship Clues from Written Conversations

The Realtime Report

New research from the University of Michigan and Nokia Bell Labs has used crowdsourcing and a tech tool to detect how these characteristics are expressed in everyday language and how they shape social dynamics. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. By examining 160 million Reddit messages, 290,000 email messages from the defunct Enron Corp.,

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How Social Media is changing brand communication paradigm

Atom Thought

It was an interesting topic in the sense that it allowed me to think and present on how decision making process of people is undergoing a paradigm shift, as also then how challenging it becomes for brands to integrate their communication within the social media framework to reach and influence people.