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The most blatant example unearthed by the website so far is the Twitter account @PeaceKaren_25. While concealing its ownership identity, it has generated more than 10,000 tweets since the end of...
Many of the tools and tactics for raising money on crowdfunding platforms apply to marketing your idea generally, but let's zero in on the most effective steps for this medium specifically. Keep in mind, the story your project or organization tells matters a lot, as does the simplicity and clarity of your pitch, and the authenticity of your team.
This isn't a book on marketing for social change (check out "The Dragon Fly Effect" for that) ; it's just one post. With that in mind, here's a six-step playbook on reaching out and raising money from the crowd.
Here are some other things you can do to help Japan: 1) Update your Facebook status or retweet the below 140 characters to your followers: The Ogawa family challenges you to match their...
Twitter will invite a group of highly active and engaged Twitter users (curators) to help choose questions and comments both prior to and during the event.These curators will be a diverse group...
The WikiLeaks Twitter account itself (@WikiLeaks) has been quite active since the release of this batch of the cables. It is retweeting some of the bigger stories to come out of the crowdsourcing...
Ironically, the skeptics of open recommendation engines and critics of traditional journals share a concern: that articles might be given visibility for reasons other than quality. In the case of...
Kred is the brainchild of PeopleBrowsr, and is gearing up for a a launch in early October. On the surface, Kred is not much different from Klout, as both measure aspects of your social media...
Harnessing the knowledge citizens and government employees share on social media applications in the public sector is a tricky challenge of the Government 2.0 era. Every day, thousands of citizens comment on government Facebook posts and blog entries or reshare information published on Twitter. Rarely has government had the opportunity to harvest innovative ideas and knowledge published through these channels. The main reason many agencies set up an organizational account is still “to be where the people are.” Recently, ‘open innovation’ platforms have started to address this disconnect, providing the public with the capability to interact and brainstorm alongside government officials. Simply put, these platforms make participating in government cool again.
Social media tools — such as blogs, Twitter and Facebook — are great channels to collect and encourage citizens to provide their insights on the issues and plans of government. Unfortunately, today’s standard social networking services do not have the capability to automatically extract and collate new knowledge or ideas from content that citizens are submitting through the existing commenting channels. In some cases, the sheer volume of comments makes proper analysis very difficult. The challenge is to extract new ideas or valuable insights from the influx of comments in a productive and efficient way. Open innovation platforms are designed to fill this gap.
People are now, more than ever before, reading the same thing. University of Chicago sociologist James Evans, who analyzed 34 million academic articles published in the last 50 years, found that...
According to Brenda Drumm, who posted a question on Twitter; “The idea has taken legs and at 11.15am on Sunday morning we have a stylist, a studio, a videographer, a PR person, some TV...
Snapette, a fashion and shopping mobile app launched late August, aims at enabling women to better share and find fashion products from retailers. “Our idea was, we would love to help women find...
Focused on the advancement of Web surveillance methodologies developed in the fields of information management, global information science, linguistic ontology, complex networks and epidemiology,...
The Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates organization (“CFIRA”) yesterday sent a letter to the SEC highlighting the importance of social media to crowdfund investing. Specifically, the letter proposes that issuers of equity who use the JOBS Act’s crowdfunding exemption should be allowed to send “notices” — tweets, Facebook posts, status updates and the like — to potential investors “without being deemed to be engaged in general solicitation.”
W announced that it had picked ten of its favorite up-and-coming street style bloggers (including Candice Lake, Craig Arend, and Amy Creyer) and given them the keys to their own W vertical. Using...
The folks at the Online Privacy Foundation (OPF) recently teamed up with the statistical and analytics crowdsourcing platform Kaggle to attempt to see if your activity on Twitter gives clues about your personality.
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Johnson used Twitter late Wednesday morning to share thoughts with his more than 1 million followers. The first post immediately sent the social sports world into a minor tizzy, gaining more than...
The government’s official Twitter handle (@govph) is also retweeting tweets posted by The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Plan-ning Office (@PCDCSO). This office is the “chief...
Recently, the crowd's gotten access to better tools allowing it to fight against low level corruption, police harassment, petty crime, and more. We highlight one such initiative in Mexico called Retio.
Crowdfunding Expert Kendall Almerico shares five rules for using Twitter to promote a crowdfunding project: 1. Tweet everything posted on Facebook. 2. Tweet several times a day, not...
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