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Live Blog Interface for Micro-Messaging

The Live Blog interface for micro-messaging (also referred to as microblogging) is a Traction skin that can be applied to any project. Live Blog incorporates the micro-messaging technology that's been made popular by web services such as Twitter and Pownce.
Live Blog is an automatically updating browser window that allows users to type a brief note from wherever they are (a traditional browser or mobile device such as an iPhone) which will appear as a highlighted entry within seconds to all users who are monitoring that project.
Live Blog makes it simple to share brief notes connecting groups of people. You may already be familiar with these models:
1) Instant posting and response - the Chat or IM model
2) Micro blogging and social messaging - the Twitter or Facebook model
Live Blog is implemented as an AJAX enabled TeamPage skin so conversations are near-synchronous. That means what you say gets pushed out to everyone watching the Live Blog seconds after you post.
Because the interaction is supported in Traction, conversations you might otherwise have in IM or Twitter can take place securely within a TeamPage context with a rich content, tagging and discussion model. A Live Blog note on a critical issue can easily be tagged and referenced for followup, found in TeamPage search, or disseminated though Traction TeamPage notification channels such as IM, email, email digest or RSS stream.
Traction's new Live Blog technology allows enterprise users to:
  • Share brief updates to stay in touch securely with customers and colleagues anytime and from anywhere
  • Keep in touch with product, sales and support teams while getting work done
  • Connect internal teams and development partners, suppliers and customers working on projects that span the globe
  • Easily raise and discuss issues that need quick attention
  • Use separate Live Blogs to work with individual clients (like a law firm) where privacy is a necessity
  • Leverage TeamPage's security, search, comment, social tagging and notification features to power Live Blogs and flag issues for follow-up action
Watch a movie here which explains how Live Blog is used and configured:
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