Crowdsourcing and aggregation are two key functions for the modern distribution of real-time content. Check out three tools that make content curation a less intimidating feat.
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TaskRabbit: Crowdsourcing comes to your neighborhood
Have you seen TaskRabbit’s iPhone app? Sign up for free and outsource small jobs and tasks to “TaskRabbits”. In a phrase, TaskRabbit is about service networking rather than social networking.
8 books for your 2011 Summer Reading List
Regular readers know that in between consulting projects at Socialmedia.biz and Socialbrite, I sneak in the occasional book review. My schedule has been more hectic than usual, but this is a good time to slip in some short writeups in advance of summer reading season.
Books still matter — whether in print or on an electronic reader.
Do you have a strategy for social bookmarking and crowdsourcing?
Here is part 7 of the series I will post over the next few months based on chapters from my new book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization.
The book is meant to be a guide to building an optimized foundation in social Web for beginners and advanced users alike.
Chapter 7 of the book is about social bookmarking and crowdsourcing using news aggregators, enabling users to save and share their favorite Websites and determine the popularity of a news story, blog entry, or Website through various voting and rating systems.
NPR’s experiments with social media
NPR’s experiments with social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Andy Carvin, social media strategist for NPR.org, has spent the past several years experimenting with innovative approaches to the news. As the head of National Public Radio’s social media desk, he’s been given a sandbox to foster high-quality journalism using social tools in an age […]