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New feature? Try new generation! Introducing the Advanced Content Module

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Live NATO coverage reported by Associated Press using Scribble’s new Advanced Content Module

 

Journalism continues to evolve at a rapid pace and a lot of newsrooms are struggling to keep up with the culture of now. ScribbleLive has just released a new feature set designed to tackle some fundamental challenges facing journalists producing real-time coverage.

Last summer we released LiveArticle, a companion to your liveblog that takes the shape of a more traditional article, except you can update it in real time and readers always get the new version without having to refresh the page. Reporters loved that you could simply drag and drop content from the liveblog into the LiveArticle, and Scribble took care of all the formatting.

We’re proud to introduce the next generation of LiveArticle with a brand-new feature set designed in partnership with the Associated Press. The AP wanted to be even more nimble and efficient in its approach to real-time coverage. Enter The Advanced Content Module (ACM), which allows editors to make every liveblog post a LiveArticle.

The ACM was born during discussions with AP over some fundamental workflow problems: how do you receive, edit and publish large volumes of content in real time? How do you prepare content ahead of the live event? How do you make that content available to other newsrooms? And most importantly, how do you make it easy for readers to digest an overwhelming flow of information? (more…)

New feature: Drop in Twitter or Facebook URLs

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Here at ScribbleLive, we’re always looking for ways to improve our platform. We do that by continually talking with our clients about their challenges in producing real-time coverage. In our conversations with editors and reporters, you wanted to know: what’s the best way to harness conversations on Twitter and Facebook?

This is what you told us: Twitter can be notoriously unreliable, and you wanted a way to ensure the right posts made it into the liveblog. You also wanted to easily grab content from your company Facebook fan page. And since you’re already monitoring social conversations with third-party aggregators like HootSuite or Tweetdeck, you wanted to leverage those platforms to provide richer content for your liveblogs.

We’re proud to introduce a new feature that tackles all three problems: you can now drop a URL of a tweet or a Facebook post directly into the text field.

Scribble will grab all the requisite info about that user — their username and avatar — and give the published post the same treatment as social updates brought in through Social Search or auto-follows. (Click “details” on a tweet to get the unique URL. Click the timestamp on a Facebook post to get the unique URL — only fan page updates will work.) Read more about the new feature on our brand-new knowledge base.

As always, you can send your feature suggestions (and/or compliments) to dana@scribblelive.com.

Robert Scoble interviews ScribbleLive CEO Michael De Monte

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Our CEO Michael De Monte was in San Francisco for an interview with none other than Rackspace Hosting‘s Robert Scoble. The two sat down to talk about the future of news rooms and live blogging.

Scoble talked about the issues associated with regular blogging, “I haven’t posted at since, I don’t know, February or March, cause it seems static and it seems really slow and it doesn’t have this feed metaphor where things pop up.” These setbacks of using regular blogs are exactly what ScribbleLive’s real-time live blogging platform solves, Michael said. “We’re solving that exact problem…so, just as you described, that ability to create a living story.” (more…)

ScribbleLive Works with The Associated Press to Launch a New Era of Live Journalism

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Toronto, ON – May 24, 2012 – ScribbleLive is pleased to announce the release of the ScribbleLive Advanced Content Module (ACM).  ACM is the first product emerging from collaboration between ScribbleLive and The Associated Press (AP) to create better tools for real-time journalism.

The ScribbleLive ACM lets news teams create live blog posts and articles that combine different types of content such as images, video, audio, slideshows, commentary and tweets into a single post to provide a better perspective on the news without sacrificing speed. (more…)

ScribbleLive Partners with The Press Association to Offer Core Real-Time News Services to Newswire Subscribers

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Toronto, ON, May 23, 2012 – ScribbleLive, the industry leader in real-time content creation, publishing and syndication, is proud to be supporting the Press Association (PA)—the UK’s leading news agency—in offering a wide range of real-time content to its wire subscribers and other customers.  PA wire subscribers who don’t already have a ScribbleLive account will be able to use the leading real-time journalism platform without charge as part of their wire subscription.  The new partnership will allow PA newswire subscribers to pull core live news and content into their websites via liveblogs and other real-time formats. (more…)

ScribbleLive helps OCE Discovery set a Guinness World Record

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012


Picture a convention centre full of mentors lined up factory-style to deliver business advice to hopeful entrepreneurs. This was the scene at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre last week as attendees strived to set a Guinness World Record for speed networking. (more…)

New ScribbleLive feature: Drag and drop media files to publish

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

When it comes to real-time, every second counts. Like professional athletes, our developers are always looking for ways to skim a few off our record. We figure every unnecessary click is one more step between your reporting and your audience. With that in mind, our newest feature lets you skip a step entirely. (more…)

Cyclists use liveblogs to interact with Giro d’Italia fans

Friday, May 18th, 2012

By Lillo Montalto Monella


There are two different philosophies that could be followed to liveblog a three-week road bicycle stage race. One is to make sport fans feel like they are listening to the action from an old dusty radio; the other is to recreate that captivating setting of the bar corner, where people swap commentarywith their buddies. Only you get the racers themselves to join the conversation. (more…)

A list of Facebook IPO liveblogs

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Today’s an exciting day, the largest tech IPO ever will happen in just a couple of hours. Facebook has set their share price at $38 per share, at this price they’re set to raise $16 billion, making it the third-largest IPO in U.S. history. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO will ring the opening bell today at NASDAQ as the company’s stock begins to trade under “FB”.

The event will be covered in real-time by several sources:

Mashable – Facebook IPO: Ask Us Anything [LIVE CHAT] - Mashable’s editors sit down to discuss the day’s events, ask them your questions now

The Verge – Facebook IPO Liveblog

CNET – Facebook going public (live blog) just went live

Reuters – Facebook IPO Live - includes a live stream of the event

CNBC – Facebook IPO Live Blog

The Globe and Mail – Live Coverage of Facebook’s IPO

Toronto Star – Facebook’s first trading day is following the latest tweets related to the event

Wall Street Journal (Chat) – Live Chat: Facebook’s IPO – Starts at 1pm ET (you can start submitting questions now)

Vancouver Sun - Live: Wall Street braces for Facebook IPO Live 

If you’re using our platform to cover Facebook’s IPO, please tweet at us @ScribbleLive and we’ll add you to this list.