We also ran a livestream for the duration on the festival so that people who couldn’t be in the park could watch. That leads me to the reason I sat down to write this post. I wanted to put a few points about LiveStream out there so that they can perhaps improve and you can learn a bit about them.

First point, and this is a HUGE one, is their customer support is non existent. We were trying to do something innovative, never been done before, and “we” (read: Justin) had to do some much hacking to get it to work with NO response from them. We were making a flex based (Adobe Air) desktop app that would pull bio data from a database, a ticker from a Twitter feed, and show what is currently on the live stream. Their API seamed to allow this but we couldn’t get it to work. We got one response from their customer service that was no help and no response to follow up requests. We finally did get it working after Justin spent most of the night before the festival working around their security. It worked and looked awesome!

The other issues are more specific to the way the streaming works and if they made improvements it would be, for applications like this, a far more valuable service.

I’d love to be able to select an audio feed to stay on while I switch cameras. We had a main “camera” set up that got a feed from the professional video crew that were doing the on stage projections, as well as an audio feed from the sound board. Obviously both were amazing quality but I’d love to had the capability to switch to a Qik camera that were in the crowd with out losing the board audio. Right now it’s either all or nothing, the audio and video feeds are tied together which is less then ideal.

The other big problem I found was that I couldn’t tell one Qik camera from another. They all show up as “lolafest camera [qik]” which makes it extremely difficult to pull up the right camera where there is more then a couple and you just sent someone out to get a certain shot. Displaying the cameras Qik account would be a big help.

Other then that I have to say that I feel my part of the festival was a success. We had our problems, like I said some of this stuff had never been done before and we only had a few days to get the real nuts and bolt of it put together.

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Most people lean one way or another, left or right, and they choose which news station to watch/read/listen to based on that.

My idea was, and it mostly applies to TV although radio would be that much sufferer. Anyways, I wonder what would happen if the left news and right news could work together and change their schedule so they don’t run at the same time.

Crazy idea I know but, those so inclined could watch news presented with both bias and make up their own minds!

I think there are far to many people that just need to see what the other side is like and perhaps actually get engaged with the news and think about what is being throw at them. They accept what is said and don’t get that even the news is slanted!

What do you think?

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clipped from socialmediagroup.com Tweeting your way into a Twinternship So what’s a Twintern you say? Essentially, a Twintern is an intern, typically a university or college student, who is hired to be the official Twitter spokesperson and brand ambassador for a given company. A Twintern is in charge of reporting company happenings, as well as joining, actively participating in, and establishing online communities for a company’s brand. Many businesses, especially ones without a definitive social media strategy or communications plan in place, are hiring twinterns to be their new media be all end alls. Twintern job descriptions encapsulate pretty much everything dealing with the social media sphere, including: influencer outreach, monitoring/metrics and crisis communications all in one. I finish this post by reaching out and asking you, have you ever had any experience(s) with twinterns or twinternships? If you have, I’d love to get your feedback on your personal experiences—what worked, what didn’t and what you learned!

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Now if they extend that they could use a physical item to provide a value added bonus and make better profit margins from that but most people want the cheap and easy option available!

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After about four or five days I’m not really missing most of it. A couple of times I’ve though about seeing who’s around to grab a coffee or something but aside from that it’s not been a big deal. I would like to have some sort of connection with the folks I really care to connect with. For the most part its the local folks that I’d like that for. I’ve considered a couple of options. One was setting up an IRC chat room of some sort to hang out in. The other was setting up a new Twitter account!

I’m even to the point where I think I’m over most of my thoughts being about 140 characters!

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