DemoCampVancouver05 Live Blog
February 7th, 2008 by Miss604 | 11 Comments »
As an experiment, and to try something new that looks pretty fancy, I will be using CoverItLive to live blog tonight’s DemoCamp. During the live blog you’ll see me posting in real-time and you’ll also be able to comment as it is fully interactive. Once the live portion is complete, I will paste the archive here as well.
You could watch it live like a chat, and insert photos.
The live Quick Poll appears in the CiL replay
There were user stats, see how many people are connected and reading along
You could include Quick Polls on the fly that would poll your audience and update a graph in real time.
I was able to write a post using the HTML feature but I could only publish in wysiwig, which was a bit of a time-eater.
I didn’t have the actual live stream embedded properly so that caused some issues as well (readers got a pop up instead of a stream within my post).
From a liveblogger’s view I really don’t like that lack of link-love. I did a lot of linking in the CiL chat but none of that comes through as being a click from Miss604.com. Therefor these companies don’t really know I wrote about them or linked their products and demos.
The options for posting the archive text are disappointing. I don’t want a table with a frame and div tags galore clogging up my post, just the timestamps, text and links intact.
Nice feature but I couldn’t determine if I needed to manually post all comments into the stream or just some. Did users think it was just between me and them, or not and if I had permission to post their comments if they didn’t know they were public.
I don’t get the comments on my blog, they’re all pretty much virtual so even commenters can’t include links back to their sites.
The live blog is over and available at the bottom of this post. Here’s some feedback as I think overall CoverItLive was pleasant from a readers’ perspective.
Posting
Comments
I’ll let this all marinate a little longer but my overall impressions of CiL were very positive. I believe there are more functions I haven’t yet explored (and perhaps even a more useful archive feature) so I’ll give it some time and a couple more chances.
Read the live blog (after the jump on the main page) as covered in CiL and pasted here from my in TextEdit. The CiL instant replay is available after the text, at the bottom of this post. (more…)
