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Gathering and ranking questions is a great way to user Listly
EQList crowdsources questions from & for entrepreneurs
In this example Todd Rhoades used Listly to crowdsource potential speakers for the Nines Conference. Not only did people suggest speakers, they also voted on the speakers to let the top nominees be chosen.
The winners get to speak for 9 minutes, hence "The Nines"
eg Nominate Speakers for the 2011 NINES!
eg A List of Paid iPad Apps
Bookmarks have been around for a long time.
We've bookmarked URLS since the very first browser.
Today bookmarking is social and crowd-sourced
Using Listly like this makes for awesome pre and post event networking.
By adding 'I Know" and "I'd like to know" tags you can quickly flag who you know and who you'd like to know. It sends a social signal and breaks the ice.
eg Bullhorn Live 2012 Guest List
With Sound of 100, we crowdsourced the answer to a simple question.
What makes you happy?
the goal as to get an answer from at least one person from every age from 1 to 100.
gg @ricdragon's reviews for Social Marketology
An assembled collection of feedback and reviews for a product - collecting reviews across blogs, Amazon, Twitter etc
eg Most Memorable Things Said At SOBCON 2012
See this example from Dancing Astronaut on how to run caption contests.
Make playlists of audio, video, screencasts and then embed i on your blog .
Or explore a blog post of 8 ideas to make great interactive playlists
Managing lists of your favorite Twitter chats is a simple way to aks your readers for help and to find the best chat groups on any given topic
How do you you manage the various blog posts you've written over time?
Having a list makes them easy to manage, share and promote.
By offering a free ebook and offering bonus content.
Try this list. Click on thumbs up. Very simple and highly effective way to blend Content Marketing with List Building
@DannyIny uses Listly to build his community
Crowdsource Location, Venues and Services in any Location
eg locals & tourists can source free wifi hot spots
Listly has ben used by many unconferences to crowdsource the topics and to match the needs to the skills in the room
eg Community Manager unConference Chicago (Proposed Discussion Topics)
As an example, we use Listly to manage our Community Wish List.
Listly is a great solution for crowd-sourcing your wish lists.
GSummit used Listly to promote their event and create engagement and awareness.
The crowd-sourced the identification of the best uses of gamification by Industry segment.
The five awards created 50k+ views and 11k+ votes in under two weeks.
eg GAwards: Best Consumer Facing Use of Gamification
See this example of the top selling Dolls on Tonnerdoll.com
Share what others are buying, and what is hot
IF you are running a blogging carnival or you want then Listly is the perfect tool.
Not only can you capture a list by accepting input from the crowd, but you can also embed this list on one or many blogs
A collection of blog posts really all need cross-linking so that your reader can navigate from post to post.
That process is manual, repetitive and often gets forgotten.
Listly makes that process very simple, by embedding one list in every post and then adding each new post to the list as you publish.
Save yourself the headache of repeatedly editing old posts.
In this example Tonner Doll crowdsourced a list of Doll Blogs. That list has now been viewed 100k times and has been embedded in hundreds of blogs
Curate the very best content in your domain for any given time period
Twitter lists kind of suck. First of all, they're buried way down deep in Twitter's interface, a sort of forgotten feature that isn't easy to find. They're barely manageable, with a single never-ending screen of names that you need to scroll through in the order they were added, and they're not really social, although you can share them.
List people who've done something special - people to whom I feel grateful. People you'd like to thank & recommend.
Curate a collection of your newsletters. Add the browser links so it's easy to share and embed your prior email campaigns.
