Stats Update Now Live: Post Event Viewers
Ever wonder how many folks check out your events once they’re over? Well, we just recently released an upgrade that gives you this valuable insight.
As you are all aware, live blog not only have their value when live but if run correctly, they can also contain valuable information for your readers after the event is over. I’ll give you an example. Let’s say you’re live blogging a conference keynote. Towards the end, you enable our Q&A feature to transcribe the Q&A session. Your readers are excited to learn the latest and greatest but a few days after the session, you take down your live blog. Well, not only is the live blog gone but the knowledge from that session is as well. If you were to keep your event up within a live blog archive, your readers will always have your site as a point of reference for that event. Even better, you have now created another level of engagement with your site visitors. More time spent on site, more…you know. Go ahead, give it a try. It’ll surprise you have many people visit your event once it’s over. And now, have the stats to prove it.
Go on folks, keep those live blogs coming…and as you’ve just learned, consider creating an archive of all your events! Perhaps a little reverse logic might work. Don’t go creating that archive, it’s bad for you. People won’t like it.
-Ramsey
LAUNCHED! Embed Video into Your Snapcast!
We have a new feature we’re excited to share with you!
Just launched, is a new tool to enable you to embed video directly into your Snapcast! It’s really easy. Simply grab the video embed code from your favorite site (such as Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, QIK, or Mogulus) and your Snapcast will switch to split-screen video mode. The video mode is especially useful if you are Snapcasting a live event where you have a live video feed.
As an example, you can check out a Snapcast from a concert in Nashville that had a live video feed and of course, a live Snapcast! This one was a lot of fun and hopefully a point of inspiration for folks. While the band was playing, viewers on the Snapcast were asking for dedications. Now talk about a virtual stadium! Does that give you an ideas? 
Nashville Snapcast: http://gsnap.com/486
Happy Snapcasting,
The G-SNAP Team
Excellent Snapcast of the Mexico vs US World Cup Qualifying Game
Hello all!
Wow, what a great day yesterday. We had a fantastic Snapcast of the Mexico vs US World Cup Qualifying Game (where the US completely dominated). We wanted to just acknowledge all of you who joined to make it a great experience. If you want to “look back”, go to http://gsnap.com/465.
Take care and keep Snapcasting!
The G-SNAP Team
http://gsnap.com
LAUNCHED! Moderation and more!
It must be your lucky day! Two posts from the G-SNAP! team. Woohoo!
Well, today we’re proud to announce the availability of some new features. Here they are:
1. Moderation: in order to control the quality of your content, you now have a few choices as how you deal with viewer comments or viewers themselves.
- Viewer comments: By default comments are visible but you can also set comments to hidden (via Snapcast settings). That means a comment must be approved prior to it being posted to the Snapcast.
- Trusted contributor: If you set comments to hidden, you can promote a user who is doing a good job to be a “trusted contributor”. That is, all future comments they write will be automagically approved.
- Ban user: well, this isn’t exciting but it’s necessary. If you have a viewer causing you grief, you can boot them from your Snapcast.
A few additional features we launched:
- End Snapcast: by popular demand, you now have the ability to end your Snapcast. So, when you choose to do so, people can’t enter in any additional comments.
- Default Snapcast: for those of you who use our mobile product, setting a specific Snapcast to be your default Snapcast will make your x-casting a little easier. When you xcast, you no longer need to specify the Snapcast ID. Just enter a subject and you’re off to the races!
- Inappropriate word filter: we’ve had this for a little while but now you have the ability to turn it off (it’s on by default). Please continue to keep it as clean as possible as there might be a younger crowd in attendance!
Well, that’s about it for now. Enjoy the new features. As always, please keep the emails coming as we love to hear your thoughts and requests.
-The G-SNAP! Team
Check us out on WAPReview.com
Hello folks.
We wanted to let you all know that there’s a great write up by WAPReview.com that just came out on G-SNAP! (focused on our mobile product) that we think is worth sharing! Check it out and drop in a comment!
http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=2567
-The G-SNAP! Team
Happy New Year!
Hello fellow Snappers and Happy New Year!
Just a quick post here to tell you how excited we are for 2009! It holds many exciting things for us as a company but also for you all as we can’t wait to see how you use g-snap!. Should be a lot of fun.
Also, stay tuned for some exciting new features over the next several weeks and even more great stuff in the not too distant future. By the way, if you have any features you’d like to see built in, don’t hesitate to send us an email!
Thanks,
The G-SNAP! Team
G-SNAP! at Aviation Nation 2008
Aviation Nation 2008 will feature an unprecedented online and mobile interactive platform that will offer air show fans around the world a range of interactive media experiences. The webcast and cell phone experience will be powered by companies such as Cisco, VegasHD, Sun Media Productions, Viewcast, Netbiscuits, Vegas Entertainment Network and G-SNAP!
The show will feature an integrated media experience, with live streaming video, digital signage, a mobile website and an innovative new technology called a “Snapcast” where air show announcers and special air show guests will provide a play by play description of the air show action.
The Snapcast will be available for viewing in a window next to the video broadcast on www.aviationnation.org and will also give fans at the show & at home the opportunity to provide their comments via desktop computers and mobile devices. Air show announcers Gordon Bowman-Jones and Heidi Harris will respond live to questions entered by air show fans around the world. The Snapcast will also be shown on Cisco Digital Signage located at the air show site. These technologies will allow the viewers to engage and interact with Aviation Nation as it happens! Join the Aviation Nation Snapcast by going to www.gsnap.com/281 on your desktop browser to view latest news from the show. To access the Snapcast on your mobile device, text “gsnap 281″ to 70589 to receive a browser link on your mobile device. Standard carrier wireless data rates apply.
We will start Snapcasting on Thursday with a sneak peek of the show set up and to hear your comments and feedback!
A mobile website, especially designed for today’s connected air show fans, will be available for mobile internet connected devices and cell phones, offering free downloadable content and access to the Snapcast of the event. To access the mobile site, open your mobile web browser and go to www.avnat.mobi.
Welcome to the G-SNAP! Blog
This is our first post!
We hope to provide exciting and sometimes moving updates on this page (does anyone have any Kleenex?). So get ready, G-SNAP! is ready to blog.
Seriously.
- The G-SNAP! Team
