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Is Crowd-Sourcing Helping Businesses Leverage Social Media, Or Just Get Cheap Labor?

By Tameka Kee
Jun. 29, 2009 - 10:15 PM EDT Jun. 29, 2009 - 10:15 PM EDT

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Social media has made it much easier for companies to tap into the crowd for everything from Wikipedia entries, to serial thrillers, and eve…

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Social media has made it much easier for companies to tap into the crowd for everything from Wikipedia entries, to

By Tameka Kee
Jun. 29, 2009 - 10:15 PM EDT

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  1. Jollo dude Tuesday, June 30 2009

    At Jollo (http://www.jollo.com) we leverage crowd-sourcing through a community of volunteer translators. We are aiming to create a 'Twitter for translating". The difference to LinkedIn is that in our expert community all contributed content is submitted under the 'Creative Commons' license.

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