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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

It used to be you spent five minutes registering for an event and then showed up on the big day, went to a few workshops, drank two free Coronas, and went home. Social media changes all of that, enabling events and their planners to have long-term, nuanced, shifting interactions with attendees. Linkedin (if it’s a business event).

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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. billion the city invested to welcome over 1.5

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7 Ways to Use Social Media to Create Buzz-Worthy Events

Convince & Convert

It used to be you spent five minutes registering for an event and then showed up on the big day, went to a few workshops, drank two free Coronas, and went home. Social media changes all of that, enabling events and their planners to have long-term, nuanced, shifting interactions with attendees. Linkedin (if it’s a business event).

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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How Brands Use Digital Events to Engage Their Customers

Pixlee

billion people watched the Apple iPhone event of September 2019 live on YouTube. Samsung’s latest event had over 58 million live-stream viewers across the globe. And today, with all in-person events canceled, digital-live events are gaining unprecedented traction. Crowdsource topics, themes, and content.

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Creating an Immersive Brand Experience at the Red Bull Wake Open

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Branding Buzz Marketing Conversational Marketing Crowdsourcing Innovation Interactive Marketing Mobile QR Codes Visual Recognition. The custom app was easy to use and built around Red Bull’s main priorities for the event: driving guest engagement, generating new content and building athlete awareness. At first it.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. And, once you have your content, how do you want to roll it out? Disappearing content apps. Should you focus on photos? What about forums?

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