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You can get additional traffic and increase stickyness of your site or blog by adding a live video stream for new visitors as well as your current community. This can all be converted into extra cash in terms of ad revenues and can also add a lot of value to your site - and bring your readers “closer” to you.

For those who do not know, Ustream.TV is a lifecasting enabler. It allows anyone with a webcam attached to their PC to webcast the webcam video being captured to a large audience. This concept was popularized very recently by Justin.TV - who was the first so-called “lifecaster” who decided to hook up his webcam to his laptop and attach it to a cap on his head to stream a live video feed wherever he was. His laptop was hooked up to a high speed Internet connection.

While most people will not be so lucky to have a high speed wireless connection - one can still jump on the bandwagon of becoming a webcaster - even if its not a 24 x 7 x 365 approach.

If you already have a community of visitors coming in to your site or blog - you can setup a live webcast for say one hour every day and invite your community to stop by at this time to watch and aprticipate in a live chat - asking you and others present questions.

Ustream.TV provides all the technology of webcasting your livecam feed (video, audio and text chat) live to the audience in the room as well as providing text chat ability to room viewers. It takes about 2 minutes to setup this system and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get closer to their audience. What you broadcast can be anything. Humans love watching others live over the Internet. Its just in our nature. We like to get entertained this way - as past Internet history has shown.

You may want to go to Ustream.TV and see what other successfull webcasters are doing and who are getting tons of traffic as a result to their live shows. Study and attend their shows and get ideas from them. Mould these ideas to fit your site / blogs topic and come up with a script or things you will do in each episode. The actual episodes can occur once a week or daily. I suggest you start with probably 3 to 4 live shows per week - but this is highly dependant on the type of audience and size of your community.

Don’t forget to archive and record your shows so anyone who missed a show can still view it. You can head to Youtube and create your channel their and then embed the video into your blog or website for on-demand viewing. Here’s an article on how to create a video blog. It may help you with finding a good wordpress (for bloggers) Youtube plugin.

So, to get started… head over to Ustream.TV and sign up. Fiddle around with their “create a live show” feature and do a few dummy broadcasts that you watch yourself and get used to their system. Then take the embeddable code they give you and put it on its own page on your site or blog.

Finally, announce your show to the world!

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