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I had the opportunity this past Monday to write a guest post for Chaordix (@chaordix), a highly-innovative crowdsourcing firm with some great people I’ve had the pleasure of communicating with, including @clintonbon @shelleykuipers and @superblue. In the article, I explored the idea of organizational crowdsourcing. An interesting comments discussion also emerged on the incentive structure of this model, specifically in corporate vs non-profit organizations and varying community sizes.

You can find the original guest post here. What are your thoughts about this idea, including the incentives we discussed in the comments on the Chaordix blog?

I hope you enjoy it.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with fellow Pittsburgher, twitter pal and social media maven Michelle Chmielewski, otherwise known as the The Observing Participant.

We discussed many topics about crowdsourcing and social media, but the focus was primarily on how successful crowdsourcing coincides with a healthy respect for the “Three C’s” – the Client, the Crowd and the Competition.

Crowdsourcing, once an innovation by a few forward-thinking companies and organizations, has spread into a diverse industry of firms working in ideation, design, development, philanthropy, customer service, venture capital funding – you name it. Do a simple search for crowdsourcing and you’ll see how many have popped up in the few years.

Recently, a new player entered the arena – the companies themselves.

Anyone in the business of getting business for themselves (and others) has heard of the elevator pitch, that 5-30 second monologue/dialogue that gets you the big deal or the big fail. If you don’t have one, no worries. There are a multitude of blogs, articles, books, applications, consultants and unsolicited advice dedicated to the subject.

But what seems to be lacking in most of them is the tie in with social media. To be successful, your social bio needs to be as much as, if not more, of an elevator pitch as it is a personal brand. So in an effort to do justice to the real world and the online world, let’s take a look at both pitches – the elevator and the twittervator.