Social Media Day 2011Lunch & LearnCrowdsourcing: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Developing Business Projects and Raising Money for a CauseDeborah Gonzalez, Esq.Founder, Law2sm, LLCdeborah@law2sm.com
Forgive Me Father, for I Have Linked Our Father, who art in pixels,Linked be Thy name,Thy Web site come, Thy Net be done,On Explorer as it is on Firefox.Give us this day our daily app,And forgive us our spam,As we forgive thoseWho spam against us,And lead us not into aggregation,But deliver us from e-vil.  Amen.NY Times: Maureen Dowd, February 8, 2011
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What is Social Media?Social communication platformInteractive, two-way communicationKISS = Keep it Social Stupid!Engagement/EnchantmentOld School – Old MediaBuy attention (paid advertising)
Beg for attention (free PR)
Bug for attention (sales)New School – Social MediaCurrency (what is important at this moment)
Authenticity (credibility)
Relevance (to who is reading)What is Crowd Sourcing?Jeff Howe, from Wired, tells us
To outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet 		~ www.dictionary.com
Describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations 	~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_fundingWhat is Crowdfunding?
The Beginning…en.Wikipedia.org
For BusinessIdeaVibes – www.ideavibes.com
For BusinessDesignCrowd – www.designcrowd.com
For Business99Designs – www.99designs.com
For Business99Designs – Examples
For BusinessThe Process
For Business99Designs – Examples
For Music & Creative ProjectsKick Starter – www.kickstarter.com
For Music & Creative ProjectsIndie Gogo - www.indiegogo.com

Social Media Lunch Learn June2011