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Facebook Contest: Doritos Crowdsources Super Bowl Ads

The Realtime Report

Doritos is crowdsourcing the brand’s Super Bowl ads for the seventh year in a row, through the “Crash the Super Bowl” Facebook contest. The second-place winner will get $600,000, and third-place will win $400,000, as reported by Mashable. The brand asked for entries from Oct. 8th through Nov.

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

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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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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. billion the city invested to welcome over 1.5

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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. The oil spill covers a surface area of at least 2,500 square miles (6,500 km 2 ) according to estimates reported on May 3, 2010 byReuters. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. from Wikipedia ].

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

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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.

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Brands Using Social Media to Take a Stand Against Racism

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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. Consumers can identify and report hate speech or content they find objectionable directly to brands and companies.