Paratweet is the live event Twitter management tool. It allows you to moderate tweets that would appear on the screen when a panel or other presentation is going on. Many times you see some very unfortunate things fly across the screen that prove to be embarrassing or troll-ish.
I have worked with moderated software for other chat based events before, so the idea excited me when seeing it for Twitter. You basically purchase a plan (yes this is not a free service) and create your event. By utilizing any hastag you want, you can instruct the audience or general public to use it to sends tweets. From there the moderator panel captures those tweets and allows you to push them to the viewing screen.
Paratweet management screen
As you can see, the ability to control what hashtag and what gets published is quite simple. As well as the ability to quickly remove or approve tweets as they come in.
The Live Viewer is an Adobe Air based application that then gets the live feed for the event. The display is controlled by a secret code you established in the event panel. Giving you security in who sees and controls the event itself.
So the next question is how much? They have a pricing grid that shows when you sign up as follows:
- Good – six months – one event at a time + some features for $299
- Great – six months – three events at a time +more features for $599
- Greatest – under development
- Introductory – one year – matches Great plan – for $999 (saving $200)
So while it is hefty, you have to see how many events you will have as well as can you reuse it in 6 months. You could try other services that just scroll live streams based on tags, like Tweetgrid, but you stand the chance of having non-moderated content coming through. The other benefit is the ability to just weed out questions from the stream and pass those along.
I wish they had a sample site or demo you could try, but it looked quite promising.
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Chris Miller, known as IdoNotes across the web is based in
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MO as the Director of Messaging & Collaboration for Connectria and the Founder of Spiked Studio Productions.. Connectria is one of the largest IBM hosting and remote management partners. Chris speaks globally at conferences and events including:
View Admin 2003-2009
View Admin Europe 2003-2008
Domino 7 Upgrade Seminar (globally)
Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar (globally)
Real-Time Collaboration Seminar
Lotusphere 2003-2012
ILUG 2008, 2010
ULUG 2009, 2011
Collaboration University 2006-2010Domino Optimization Tour 2010
BLUG 2011, 2012
NLLUG 2010
AusLUG 2011, 2012
Other awards, events and information:
Founder of
IamLUG - the North American Lotus User Group event held annually. 2009-present
Chris, via
Connectria, is a Lotus Award winner 3 times and a finalist 5 times since 2000.
Winner of the Gary Guthrie Award for Technical Writing in 2002
Previous board member of the
St Louis Domino and Notes User Group
Previous board member of VALU (the predecessor to LotusUserGroup)
Advisory Board member to LotusUserGroup.org
Chris is the founder of
Spiked Studio Productions which produces industry related podcasts, webcasts and more. Shows include:
IdoNotes - one of the longest running Lotus related technical podcasts
BlackBerry Today - a video podcast on the hottest device, application and BlackBerry/Playbook news
Consultant In Your Pocket - deep technical webcast training delivered free and subscription
IdoSphere - a two day online technical event
TheSocialGeeks - a leading social media roundtable podcast
Sametime Guide - a video training tutorial on installing and administrating IBM Sametime
TheSocialNetworker - a social media site review webcast and interview series now including Social Stalking content on social media security and privacy
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PCLP since Domino R4 in administration and in Development through R5
Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging
Domino 7 and 8 Certified Security Administrator
Sametime Administration 7.5.x-8.5
CLP Collaboration (retired certification Aug 2006)
CLI for numerous administration areas including Domino, Sametime, Quickr and Connections
Yes I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take.
I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will
say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
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