Why Cheetos Is Crowdsourcing Its Latest Campaign
A new contest from Cheetos encourages fans to submit photos of their quirkiest-looking Cheetos chips for the chance to win serious prizes.
Crowdsource Your Way to the Best Landing Page
Landing pages are a tried-and-true gateway to conversion. They’re also ripe for optimization through crowdsourcing.
General Electric Teams Up With Jimmy Fallon To Launch #SomeoneShouldInvent Campaign
As if Jimmy Fallon’s shows weren’t enough fun already, GE has partnered with the show to offer some creative Fallonventions as part of their #SomeoneShouldInvent social media campaign.
5 Ways Crowdsourcing Improves Your Content Marketing
As content marketing matures, marketers continue to identify appropriate channels where their investments will pay off with content that sells. Content creation remains a huge undertaking, however, and as Jay Baer puts it, the opportunity costs are significant. The drivers behind a potentially long sales cycle involves content created and distributed over a broad array […]
Threadless Shares 10 Years of Insights and Inspiration
Threadless – everyone’s favorite T-shirt purveyor and example of crowdsourcing and customer community success – recently published a terrific 10th anniversary book that combines company history with dozens of its best designs. It makes for very interesting reading, and the production values and design elements make it a suitable coffee table book, and an excellent […]
Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World
My TIVO hates Clay Shirky. In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay. […]
Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Basics
Guest post by Clinton Bonner, Director of Sales at Chaordix, specializing in the technology and services of managed crowds for open innovation and social research. What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl”) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it […]
The World Really is Flat – Crowd Sourced Design Rules
I’ve finally collected enough of my Twitter 20 interviews (live interviews with social media luminaries, conducted on Twitter) to create an ebook. I re-read every interview, and picked out the highlights. The best, most intriguing answers. I then categorized the answers topically: brand communities, PR, content creation, social CRM, etc. The next big challenge was […]
CrowdCampaign Makes Crowd Sourcing Simple
The denizens of Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the social Web are a sharp group, generally speaking. You can learn a lot about yourself, your brand, and your products and services by listening to the desires of your fans and your community. I crowd sourced my facial hair, and kept my beard. Del Monte […]