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Create your own live media dashboard for SPC09

Original Publication Date: Friday, October 16, 2009
Filed Under: Mark Miller, conferences
SharePoint User Level: General Interest

 

Live Twitter Stream from SPC09As I go about setting up the media streams and deciding how to distribute all the content that’s going to be coming out of the SharePoint Conference 2009, I came up with the idea of letting everyone, and that means you, decide how they’d like to view all the live blogging streams. A little background here for those that are just coming to the party.

Next week, me and my 7000 of my closest friends are going to have a party in Las Vegas to celebrate the introduction of SharePoint 2010. There are 125 people signed to blog live for EndUserSharePoint.com… from the conference floor, from the sessions, from the water coolers, from the parties… you name it, they’ll be there.

In order to follow that many live bloggers, I’m going to have to setup multiple media panels in the browser. It’s just too much information in one place. What I’m going to do is this:

By including the embed code for each, individual panel, you the reader, can cut and paste that into and HTML page and build your own live media dashboard for SharePoint Conference 2009! It’s just basic HTML, so you can setup the dashboard to even run locally on your harddrive. No need to push it up to a web site.

Give me some feedback, if you don’t mind. Is this something you would be interested in doing? Is it worth the time and effort?

Here’s a little something to try out. I’ve already got the tweet stream going. The embed code is included below. Cut and paste it into a web page, and then open in your web browser. Voila! You’ve got your first media panel setup.

<iframe src="http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=aae5dcd2f4/height=550/width=380" scrolling="no" height="550px" width="380px" frameBorder="0" ><a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=aae5dcd2f4" >SharePoint Conference 2009</a></iframe>

So what do you think? Worth doing, or are you just going to follow on the main streaming page? — Mark

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8 Responses to “Create your own live media dashboard for SPC09”

  1. Christophe on October 16th, 2009 3:09 pm

    Mark, please allow me to rephrase a suggestion I already made.
    Rather than groups of bloggers, how about creating and sharing with all bloggers a twitter taxonomy for the conference? A set of predefined hash words would help filter the stream.
    For example:
    - by technology: #SPD, #VS, #jQuery, #API, etc.
    - by business solution: #BI, #ECM, #PM, etc.
    - by audience: #enduser, #admin, etc.
    - others: #scoop, etc.

  2. EndUserSharePoint on October 16th, 2009 3:23 pm

    Very hard to do. Everyone of the people blogging would have to have a seperate login panel for each stream. I’m in agreement with in theory, but execution at this stage will be tough. — Mark

  3. Christophe on October 17th, 2009 1:15 am

    Too bad. What you’re setting up is actually a whole collaborative environment that would deserve its own governance and taxonomy.

    Thinking out loud…does it mean that a simple SharePoint list, with a couple metadata, and a simple page refresh mechanism, could be a better solution than Twitter in the future?

  4. EndUserSharePoint on October 17th, 2009 7:24 am

    Twitter isn’t a problem. All that needs to be done there is have a different hash for each area of content. That would have its own logistical problems such as distributing and enforcing the hash tags, but probably not insurmountable.

    The real problem is with the live blogging.

    In the live blogging platform, each panel is considered a seperate event. If I create “events” by category, each category has its own login. As live bloggers move from session to session, they’d have to determine which category the session is in and login. Could it be done that way? Yes, but the amount of effort it would take to do that would be more than most people are willing to do, considering this is a volunteer position and what they really want to do is attend the session and blog with as little hassle as possible.

    In theory, you are correct. If I could simplify the process, I would do it by category.

  5. Ayman El-Hattab on October 18th, 2009 1:43 pm

    Wonderful idea, I’ve added the live media dashboard to my blog :)

  6. Christophe on October 18th, 2009 7:24 pm

    I’ll do it too :-)

    Mark, are you going to post more panels? Also what does “group 07″ mean on your live stream?

  7. Christophe on October 18th, 2009 8:45 pm

    Well, I got my answer with your latest post…

  8. EndUserSharePoint on October 19th, 2009 8:29 am

    Christophe – I’ve divided the live bloggers into groups of about 20. Since no specific tracks have been announced for the conference, I thought it would be best to show who was in each group and that way you can choose the groups to follow based upon who you know.

    Not the best, but workable. – Mark

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