How do you turn a live event interactive? May 12, 2009
Posted by Angelo in Collaboration, Economy, Events.trackback
Today’s GPEC economic summit, hosted by the Decision Theater proved to be truly interactive, in more ways than one.
This was happening on several levels. On the expected level, before during and after the event, reporters could be seen pulling aside a speaker or an audience member to get immediate feedback, as did audience members who engaged each other.
But while all this was happening, the camera that you see here was live streaming video made available to a web audience. We used BitGravity for this. The BitgGavity feed was embedded in a dedicated web page. At one time we tracked more than 600 people on that site. This extended audience got to interact with the speakers through an embedded chat program, and via a polling tool.
The questions arising in the chat room were immediately sent to the speaker. How? In an adjacent conference room –call it the social media hub– in between watching the live web stream, someone from the GPEC communications team would forward the questions to the Drum via Blackberry. All this, as we tweeted and blogged the event.
One more thing. Photos taken during the event were immediately uploaded to Flickr -you can see them on the right of this page- and TwitPic.
[...] The event brought together business and civic leaders, members of the state legislature and educators in an open and informal dialogue to collaborate and map out the economic future for Arizona. The on-site panel of 25 thought leaders addressed questions from an online audience from 25 states and two countries, and the media. [...]