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Kmart Halloween Campaign Combines Social Media, Mommy Bloggers, Live Video — and Breaks A World Record

The Realtime Report

Mommy bloggers were invited to view the event live, and it was streamed live on UStream. The #Kmartworldrecord hashtag allowed people to follow and share on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The effort saw Rezell reach his goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for number of costume changes.

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12 Questions When Considering A Hybrid Event

SocialFish

Livestream, Ustream and Qik are a few. Livestream and Ustream have upgrades for about $350 a month that contains non-advertising broadcast pages. Ustream has a similar mixing and broadcast feature built into its package. Some platforms integrate web text chats and Twitter hashtag chats directly with the live stream broadcast.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Curate and promote user-generated content via branded hashtags. Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. How brands can use microblogging platforms: Use hashtags to join conversations about your industry or product. Engage with customers and followers in real time. Video sharing sites.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The best way to use it is create a hashtag, explain what you are trying to accomplish, and have your followers tweet away. Ustream and YouTube Video blogging is becoming increasingly popular, especially now that smartphones have better video cameras, and there are apps to upload them to video services, such as Ustream and YouTube.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Facebook & LinkedIn allow you to create private groups. Manage invitees; they discuss and share. Where do you and your staff spend more time? www.facebook.com. www.linkedin.com. Create custom tags for your org & events or concepts. Prepend with a # sign, aka a “hash” mark. Have you created your main tag? Are you checking for duplicates?

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

A number of years ago I experimented over with using Ustream to connect with my readers. The added bonus of our real life event is that a virtual event runs alongside it both in the selling of virtual tickets but also through the hashtag for the event.

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How to Write in a More Personal and Engaging Tone

ProBlogger

For example, I semi-regularly try to do a Ustream chat session where I sit in front of a web cam and answer reader questions. I also participate on Twitter in the #blogchat hashtag weekly chat. All of these things build personal connections, and give people a chance to “meet&# me in some way.