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"Community Commentary"


Scotty

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Some folk may have noticed that we fed CaleyD's tweets through our live commentary page last night .... I did this as a bit of a test and it seemed to work well. Having talked a little with CaleyD about this this morning, we wondered if there was any mileage in trying to expand this idea into a sort of "community commentary" ???

What do I mean by Community commentary ?Well basically, we use a service that allows us to type our own live commentary into an event screen and we display that screen on our live commentary page. It also allows users to comment and for those (moderated) comments to appear in the commentary. Its a bit like the live text you might see on the SkySports ticker and other sites. Its a bit static and relies on one person being at the helm for every game.

Our intention with this service was to try and have someone updating this live from every game. However, for most of the season we quite simply have not had the time, or bodies on the ground to make this work ..... and therefore it has not been running for games.

After last night's impromptu test, we wondered about taking another track ...... for each game we could not only have the person at the helm (or not) but also include twitter feeds from @ictonline, from @openallmics, and from any other sources tweeting live news. This would mean that a variety of sources were coming through our live feed and even if we were struggling for bodies on the ground there would still be some commentary.....

We also realise that many of our site users may also be at a game and may also be tweeting so this is where the "community" part comes in .... If you are tweeting during a game would you be happy to have your tweets included in the live commentary for others - not at the game - to see? If yes, then all you would need to do is send us your twitter account name (password not required) prior to a match and we would set the event screen up so that it including tweets from that account ..... The more people involved, the more in depth and community oriented the commentary might be .....

thoughts ?

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