Live Blogging Revolutionized!
I came across this fantastic online tool just now & I thought it would be of interest to many. What am speaking about is the CoverItLive – Live Blogging tool. They have revolutionized the entire live blogging concept with this fantastic tool.
Any blogger who wishes to create a Live Blogging session can go to CoverItLive website, register there & you can now create your own Live Blogging media. It will look like a simple chat box! Any of your blog user can participate in this real time blogging event.
You can give your Live Blogging session – a Title – Starting Time etc. CIL website will generate an embed code according to your needs & what you all need to do is just copy & paste this embed code in your blog. Now an Iframe will appear in your blog with details of your Live Blogging session. There’s options like “Inform your readers via E-mail” which will let you inform all your readers via mail about the Live Blogging event. Also “Reminder” options available which will let you notify your readers about the event 1 hr before or 15 mins before. A recent add on to this tool is “SMS Alert” which will send SMS-es to the subscribers mobiles…sounds cool..huh! Another interesting feature is you can add all twitter users to this live blogging session & they all will be notified!
I am not gonna dissect this tools entire features, just thought to note you! If you are one with interest go to CoverItLive-Website & find what all things interest you! I think this tool will be very useful for the ones who host Barcamp & Blogcamp in which Live Blogging is unavoidable!
Features Available:
- Live Reporting
- Creating Live Polls – with real time monitoring
- Share Videos, Images, Links
- Share articles, Blogposts etc
- Instant replays etc
- Communicate with readers – Answer there qns – live commenting
About me! what to say...
November 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
frankly i do not see whats the “wow” in it. perhaps you can show us a working site which has incorporated CIL in it.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Just check out the following URL: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/10/15/154116/81
Now click on the REPLAY button – you can see a Live Blogging Session (thats already over – you can read wat happened there)
To get the list of who uses this CIL, check below
http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123
November 21st, 2008 at 2:49 am
thanks got it. its a great tool to cover events like these (debates, meetings etc…)