Live blogging for online events
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:20AM I saw this live blogging service on Dragens Den the other night, it's called ScribbleLive. It can be used in a variety of ways, one in particular I find would be useful, would be to cover a live Q&A from your webcast event. The great part is you do not have to login to ScribbleLive to take part, they allow you to embed your live blog on your website. There is one example of this, on The Score website, which uses ScribbleLive as a live blogging tool, so viewers can interact with each other, while watching a hockey game. Basically, the same concept could be applied to your organization, business, blog, school, or even students, as the application is currently offered for free. Lets hope they still make this application accessible to all, after the dragens have their 2 cents.
ScribbleLive has full integration with Twitter, so you can have all of your comments posted to Twitter, but you can also pull in comments that might be relating to your event. The Admin interface provides you all of the tools to make this happen. Here is a short example, I started a live blog, added a few comments, & uploaded a couple pictures (from ScribbleLive & from email). Also, I tested their auto-post feature from twitter, essentially, this lets you search for a keyword, in this case it was "collaboration", and have the comments automatically included in your feed. This is the concluded summary of the live blog...
- 9:52 AM: batipi watching the live event
- 9:54 AM: davidcorcoran watching the live event too
- 9:54 AM: hanneklintoe @Claus @marks Collaboration, tick. Confusion and queueing, no thanks. The World 2 - Google Wave 1
- 9:55 AM: archivesinfo An old article, but still timely "The Collaboration Imperative" bit.ly #librarians #archivists #curators
- 9:55 AM: BambooNation #SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Review; Standardizing Online #Collaboration Tools; Bye Bye #Browser? tinyurl.com #Microsoft
- 9:56 AM: adahdavis Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform bit.ly
- 9:58 AM: frankietrouble is prepping for the collaboration with Jane Doe DJ at Barsoma Wednesday night for Head Vs. Heart. fb.me
- 9:59 AM: Lotus_DE MacOS X als Plattform für Enterprise Collaboration: IBM Vortrag auf der i-meeting '09 von Torsten Hoffmann bit.ly @hofster
- 9:59 AM: myvocal Collaboration Done Right bit.ly
- 9:59 AM: David Corcoran
- 10:01 AM: PLM_IC Cisco Adds Social Software, Hosted E-mail to Collaboration Lineup bit.ly
- 10:01 AM: enterprisetwo Cisco Breaks Down Barriers to Business-to-Business Collaboration; New telepresence, unified communications, enterprise s url4.eu
- 10:02 AM: divaschematic Oh gads, I hope there's a full Gaga and PSB collaboration soon.
- 10:02 AM: frankietrouble is prepping for the Jane Doe DJ | Frankie Trouble! collaboration at Barsoma Wednesday night for Head Vs. Heart . fb.me
- 10:05 AM: batipi
- 10:07 AM: DESULU Voc@loidM@ster祭り3 作品しちょー
「12 colors」ProjectDIVAx765pro Collaboration CM
www.nicovideo.jp - 10:08 AM: Cisco_Mobile REMINDER: #Cisco to #Webcast #Collaboration Summit Today tinyurl.com
- 10:08 AM: NeuroNow $6-Million NIH Grant To Study Rare Brain Disease: Brown University, in collaboration with two other institution.. bit.ly
- 10:08 AM: bdescary Google Apps, la collaboration à la portée des TPE et PME | rezopointzero.com bit.ly
In this case, I just grabbed the embedded code from ScribbleLive for the above concluded event. You can also include embed code for live events, to include on your webpage as well.
Live Blogging Features
Usability
No registration required for your users to join a live blog, they simple sign in with their existing social network id (facebook, twitter, ect)
Updates in real time
Updates appear in real time on your screen, no requirements to refresh your screen
Cross Platform
Works on all browsers, MAC, PC & Linux
Desktop Notifier
Latest feature, offering you a desktop application to monitor your live event directly from your desktop
Supports HTML tags
You can copy and paste an html embed code from any website into your live blog, for example from Youtube, you can drop a video to be watched directly into your stream
Translation
Offers on the fly translation in English, French, Italian, Spanish & many others. A user automatically receives the comment translated into their preferred language
Upload Multimedia
Add images, video, record a comment via your webcam & automatically post into the live blog
Post via Email
Allow your users to send comments, pictures & video to the live blog
Add Live Blogging to your website
Copy the event embed and you can have the ScribbleLive experience on your web site in seconds. You have control of the background colour, the text font, size and colour for your content, comments, and meta data, link and divider line colour and style, avatars on or off and the size of your embed.
Ask us about adding ScribbleLive to your next custom webcast from Batipi.
Reader Comments (3)
Virtual Studio is the pioneer web cast streaming service provider company in India based out of New Delhi, having web cast for various corporates and multinationals, a number of events of international importance.
Good news for all bloggers! Its features are quite interesting.Now adding live blog to your own website is so easy.Good post!Keep up posting such information.
ginko
I am sorry but I'm missing the point in this. Is this like cross posting? or another social network that you could merge with existing networks.I am not really getting the perks behind this.
Amy Cameron
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