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How Universities Use Crowdsourcing to Solve Complex Problems

By Kristen Bradley | Published: May 23, 2013

The staid corridors of university administrations benefit from student infiltration with an age-old strategy: divide and conquer. A central tenant of all things crowdsourcing, this strategy makes the impossible possible. The mass collaboration of crowdsourcing gives universities the power to tap into the bright minds of students to solve complex problems with innovation, cost savings and benefits to universities and students.

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Crowdsourcing Jobs: A Sure Thing For College Grads

By Sammie Schweissguth | Published: May 21, 2013

College loan payments are due. Your parents are ready to bump you gently into the real world. You’re eager to start post-grad life with a well-paying job that fits your career goals. A less-than-ideal job market is the only thing stopping you.

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Solution to Penguin 2.0: Crowdsourced Content

By Kristen Bradley | Published: May 16, 2013

In 2012, we first became familiar with one of Google’s black and white animals – the Penguin. Over 12 percent of all search results were penalized for violating Google’s guidelines and for providing low-quality content. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam Team, recently announced that Penguin 2.0 is set to launch in the upcoming week. Cutts also disclosed that this update is bigger than the first (cue panic attack).

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How Crowdsourcing Can Transform Your Marketing Strategy

By Kristen Bradley | Published: May 9, 2013

In a consumer market increasingly driven by social media and mobile devices, shareable, smarter content is a must for nurturing a captive audience. Simply developing content is not enough to stay relevant. You must engage, captivate and retain your audience by producing content in real-time that gets shared on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social networks. You have to earn your audience.

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Content Moderation to Protect Your Brand: Crowdsourcing Real-world Practices

By Kristen Bradley | Published: May 2, 2013

With your enterprise’s market value largely dependent on your reputation, every point of contact, both direct and indirect, you have with consumers and end-users matters. Your social online presence especially is ever-growing in importance. In fact, 65 percent of your brand reputation is projected to be attributed to your sociability by 2014 (a 20 percent increase over 2010), according to Statista.com.

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