He’s received accolades from the Canadian Prime Minister, dominated the Twitterverse and even covered Bowie. And Monday, after five months aboard the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut-cum-superstar Chris Hadfield returned to earth. As would be expected with the return of any celebrity, his safe landing in Kazakhstan was covered in real-time with pomp and circumstance. Here’s a round-up of some of that coverage. (more…)
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Chris Hadfield’s real-time return
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013Tech Alert: Scribd
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013Covering a story that’s heavy on documents and light on action? Want to make a lot of paperwork available to people in an easy-to-consume way?
Use Scribd to get those documents into your liveblog.
Scribd is a digital documents library that allows users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents in various languages. It’s website says it’s the world’s largest online library, with an audience of 90 million monthly readers.
It’s collection boasts a huge supply of works, from books and legal documents to school papers and presentations. Historical documents. Scientific data. Infographics and comics. (more…)
Introduction to real-time
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013With the launch of our jazzy new ScribbleU curriculum, we thought it would be useful to give an updated introduction to real-time content.
What is it? What kind of stories can be covered? And why should you be using it?
Real-time content is information that you push our to your readers as soon as you get it. Traditionally, a story would break, someone would write a summary of events and then it would be available to readers after the event finished. Real-time media update their readers as fast as they can; they give readers the information as they learn it. (more…)
Santa’s ride around the world with ScribbleLive
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013On Dec. 24, people around the world who celebrate Christmas were collecting around fireplaces, drinking eggnog and spending time with their families. But one man was working his hardest day of the year: Santa Claus.
Traipsing around the world to drop off presents and gorge on the occasional cookies-and-milk delights, the Big Man in Red gave out billions of gifts and traveled to pretty much every single country in existence.
This year, in addition to his usual workload, Kris Kringle also took it upon himself to liveblog his trip around the world using ScribbleLive. With the help of elves, reindeer and the utterly unstoppable Mrs. Claus, Santa published 24 hours of continuous content in “Santa’s Live Ride,” a liveblog that was syndicated out to 23 organizations around the world. From the Philippines to Slovenia, the United States to Argentina, the liveblog pulled in more than 70,000 unique page views and 1 million engagement minutes, with an average of 14 minutes per user. (more…)
Why you should liveblog and not livetweet
Friday, November 16th, 2012Livetweeting is becoming increasingly popular. People livetweet almost anything, ranging from their dinner to the TV shows they’re watching. Many reporters are also getting very comfortable with the 140-character message, tweeting anything from a murder trial to a high school sports game. Unfortunately this practice of livetweeting has downsides too, especially for reporters.
The University of Washington has a restriction on the number of tweets reporters can send out during games, they’ve reprimanded Tacoma News Tribune reporter Todd Dybas for live-tweeting Sunday’s game. The University of Washington has a live coverage policy that limits in-game updates to 20 for basketball games and 45 for in-game football updates, Dybas surpassed that limit with 53 tweets during Sunday’s game. The University does not restrict the number of tweets by their own staff or students. (more…)
The 2012 US Elections in real time [Infographic]
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012We’ve seen an unprecedented amount of live political coverage over the last few months. Starting with the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in August, the journalistic flurry culminated in record traffic last week on US election day. The quantity and quality of Election Day liveblogs was tremendous, and we strongly recommend you take a look at how newsrooms provided informative live commentary, coverage and analysis. We’ve decided to use our new reporting analytics to provide some insight into just how popular and engaging live coverage has become. See the infographic below for statistics on how readers interacted with ScribbleLive liveblogs during the 2012 US elections. (more…)
Marketing content in real time
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012A new infographic by Content Plus ”The Anatomy of Content Marketing” shows the value content marketing can have for corporations. It features some great stats about how having original, thought leadership-oriented content on your website resonates with your audience and increases engagement. We’ve already seen that real-time content has increased the time spent on media websites (compared to static content) and we’re confident that similar results will be produced if corporations publish real-time content and communications.
Why you should not live-tweet Election Day
Monday, November 5th, 2012What’s your plan for election coverage? BuzzFeed published an interesting article today, looking at the overwhelming number of tweets being sent during the presidential debates and the difficulty it posed to those trying to follow the elections on Twitter. In this post we take a look at the problems Twitter’s growing use has in delivering meaningful political coverage. (more…)
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