A few months ago I signed up for an account at coveritlive.com. Coveritlive.com is a live blogging service that is FREE. I am really excited about this service. Mainly because as I stated in a previous post, next year I plan on attending several conferences I missed out on this year and I would love to live blog from some of them. I also wouldn’t mind live blogging during one of my favorite TV shows. That would be fun.
Coveritlive.com runs right from your blog or website, which I think is great because your readers don’t have to worry about going to another site just to be involved in your live broadcast of whatever you are covering. While you are live broadcasting you can instantly upload video, photos and audio AND your readers do not need to refresh. This is a big plus. When the MacWorld 2008 keynote was going on I was on a blog trying to get the scoop and I had to keep refreshing every couple of minutes to get their latest entry. needless to say, it became old real quick.
Coveritlive.com also allows the host to create and use polling questions for the readers. You have the option of creating the poll before you start live blogging or to set up a quick poll during your live blogging session. Readers can also comment in real time while the host is live blogging. The host can reply back to all readers or send private messages to individual readers; all of this is viewable in one screen. Once you stop live blogging, it is still accessible because your session immediately gets transformed into ‘instant replay’ mode for future viewing. There are some other great features they offer as well. I just wanted to give you a taste of what you can do with this FREE service.
Last night I went into my account to roam around some more and I saw that they give you the ability to do a test live blogging session. So I fooled around with that to get familiar with how it all works and I must say, I am very impressed.
I can’t wait until I have something to cover live and best believe I’ll be doing it from coveritlive.com.
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