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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. Keith Jenkins (@velvetescape) August 4, 2012.

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Facebook Contest: Doritos Crowdsources Super Bowl Ads

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Doritos is crowdsourcing the brand’s Super Bowl ads for the seventh year in a row, through the “Crash the Super Bowl” Facebook contest. Doritos knows it has a winning formula with crowdsourcing ads, and adding interactive features to the app encourages even more engagement. The brand asked for entries from Oct.

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5 Ways Crowdsourcing Improves Your Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

Crowdsourcing, when done properly, can play a pivotal role with your content marketing. Below are five ways crowdsourcing is impacting the future of content marketing: Crowdsourcing speeds up the content creation process (and frees you up). Crowdsourcing gets your customers & potential customers involved.

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

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The Facebook-owned mobile photo editing and sharing network Instagram has been around since October 2010 and by April 2012, the platform had 30 million users worldwide. The community-based t-shirt company Threadless is a crowdsourcing business whose design is created and chosen by the online community.

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Turkish Airlines Video Ad Tops 100 Million Views

The Realtime Report

It takes the prize as the most-viewed travel ad in 2012 — even beating out Air New Zealand’s ‘Hobbit-themed’ safety briefing, which logged over 10 million views ( Skift ). To top it off, the ad was the fourth most-viral ad in 2012, following Kony, Red Bull’s Stratos and Angry Birds Space.

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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

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Now, with the drought of 2012 creating extreme conditions for farmers across a great swath of the U.S., For example, the owners of Harvest Moon Farms, a 35-acre organic operation in southwest Wisconsin, are staging a string of fundraisers called “ Drought Aid 2012.” Thinking why am I harvesting this stuff but moisture is 15%.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

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Before joining Software Advice in 2012, she worked in sales management and advertising. Social enterprise platforms provide a platform for crowdsourcing innovation – from responding to queries and surveys, to posting ideas in a group discussion threads. Her work has appeared in myriad publications including Inc.,