WebWorkerDaily » Archive Five Lessons Learned About Live Blogging «

Live blogging is an interesting theme. I need to learn more about "how to do it live", the dynamics, etc. I've been testing Jaiku and Friendfeed as live interactivity platforms. Now I need to run downtown for some shopping but returning to this question.

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Five Lessons Learned About Live Blogging «: "I recently live-blogged a 3-day conference. Gearing up for the event, I posted here about the equipment I was bringing as well as musings about the dynamics of live blogging. While I’ve live blogged parts of events and have Power-Twittered a conference before, this was my first full-scale, solo, multimedia live-blogging project for a client.

The live blogging was a success. In fact, the client was caught up in the excitement of seeing posts showing up literally in the middle of sessions with quotes and commentary about the topics discussed that they finally “got” what a blog could be.

Everyone at the conference was fired up to see images from the sessions and events and video clips of themselves or their fellow conference attendees waxing philosophical about the conference proceedings.

Here are my key lessons from the three days. For anyone whose work will take them into the realm of live blogging, I hope these prove helpful."

Live Blogging 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb

Live Blogging 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb: "If you're a blogger who is into covering live events, like keynotes, press conferences, meetings, or sports events, you may be interested in the new, free service from CoveritLive. In development since 2006 and emerging from beta in November of 2007, the CoveritLive platform gives you an easy way to blog events as they happen and it also provides tools to interact with your readers during the event you're covering.

Helge: I will be covering Pikku Pääsiäinen - The Little Eastern next Saturday in Porvoo, Finland. It's a local event with 20 entrepreneurs present.

As you use CoveritLive's software, your commentary streams live to your web page or blog. Readers viewing the commentary can ask questions and participate in polls you create, giving them a reason to stay online on your website for the duration of the event, instead of checking in every now and then. Readers viewing the live blog stream don't have to create user accounts to participate or download any software.

Helge: I've to test CoveritLive.

While blogging, you can also add pictures and videos in real-time, keeping the stream updated with interesting content. The text, images, and videos can be drag-and-dropped into the application's interface and linked with ease."

Helge: Hmmm.