Live Coverage at the NSC
(cross posted from my personal LJ)
So many things I want to write. Need to find time... this first.
Firstly -- this will be totally unlocked and I'm planning on sending the link to Sherrie to get her input as well. Not posting to CGP at this stage only because I'm not sure how useful it would be.
Secondly -- this discussion that I hope ensues will be distilled into a concrete plan for [info]poslfit (and CC, but it's mostly [info]poslfit's bailiwick) for next Nationals. It will need to be tested at some tournament before Orlando, of course.
Thirdly, the question -- what do we need to do to turn the live coverage into a 2011, Web 2.0-style event?
How can we better use Twitter and Facebook to involve viewers in the experience interactively?
How can we improve the live online game coverage?
What other resources or technologies are out there that can be taken advantage of?
Please put answers or additional questions in the comments.
My answers:
1. Yes -- have an NSC twitter account, and a few people with smart phones tweeting live color. Have someone making posts on an NSC Facebook page, and start promoting this page months beforehand, so people are aware of it and have "liked" it. Do searches for NSC or Scrabble hashtags on twitter during the event and start an interactive dialogue with people who are following the action.
2. Web-based input. Allow users to leave comments on individual moves and have a live chat area where annotators, event staff, and online audience can interact in real time. (I actually started speccing this out as a proposal for a Master's project in CS but it was nixed by my advisor. I still have some interest in essentially rewriting the back end of crosstable's game display thingy# and adding a live-annotation front end and the ability for users to leave comments.)
3. Have some players write blog entries about specific games, or moves. Profile a couple players and have them write up blogs about the event like Dan Wachtell did for Slate magazine several years ago.
So many things I want to write. Need to find time... this first.
Firstly -- this will be totally unlocked and I'm planning on sending the link to Sherrie to get her input as well. Not posting to CGP at this stage only because I'm not sure how useful it would be.
Secondly -- this discussion that I hope ensues will be distilled into a concrete plan for [info]poslfit (and CC, but it's mostly [info]poslfit's bailiwick) for next Nationals. It will need to be tested at some tournament before Orlando, of course.
Thirdly, the question -- what do we need to do to turn the live coverage into a 2011, Web 2.0-style event?
How can we better use Twitter and Facebook to involve viewers in the experience interactively?
How can we improve the live online game coverage?
What other resources or technologies are out there that can be taken advantage of?
Please put answers or additional questions in the comments.
My answers:
1. Yes -- have an NSC twitter account, and a few people with smart phones tweeting live color. Have someone making posts on an NSC Facebook page, and start promoting this page months beforehand, so people are aware of it and have "liked" it. Do searches for NSC or Scrabble hashtags on twitter during the event and start an interactive dialogue with people who are following the action.
2. Web-based input. Allow users to leave comments on individual moves and have a live chat area where annotators, event staff, and online audience can interact in real time. (I actually started speccing this out as a proposal for a Master's project in CS but it was nixed by my advisor. I still have some interest in essentially rewriting the back end of crosstable's game display thingy# and adding a live-annotation front end and the ability for users to leave comments.)
3. Have some players write blog entries about specific games, or moves. Profile a couple players and have them write up blogs about the event like Dan Wachtell did for Slate magazine several years ago.