Today’s experiment of aggregating the tweets from the last two hours of the SharePoint Best Practices Conference was extremely successful. I’m going to try and get up early enough to do the entire conference, live tomorrow.

Live content for tomorrow will include:

• All tweets for #spbpc and #spbpuk
• All tweets by the major contributers such as @helloitsliam
• Live comments from anyone who would like to blog
• Inline images as soon as they are uploaded
• Anything else I can do to help bring this event more exposure to the people who couldn’t attend
• All in real time!

For those who have never seen live blogging, here’s how it works.

I can set up accounts for up to 25 people acting as content providers. When they blog, it comes immediately into the site and is autoscrolled as more content is provided. Take a look at today’s last two hours to see how it is presented. Anyone can view the live stream. Just open the blog post for tomorrow’s session and it will auto-update as new content comes into the stream.

That means there is no limit on the number of people who can view the content!

Editors can provide inline images, text, answer questions, provide commentary, all with no limits to character count. People watching the screen are able to comment, ask question and participate in the generation of the content within the scrolling window.

This is then saved within the blog post as archived content, just as I did with today’s sesssion.

As I said, I think the pilot test went very well today. I’m now looking for people who would like to volunteer to act as the live blogger/editors at the event. I’ll provide you with login credentials and you’ll be an official journalist for the event!

 If this works well, I’ll set this up for other SharePoint events, such as SharePoint Saturdays.

Thanks in advance for your participation. To volunteer, leave a comment below. When you comment, your email address won’t be exposed… I’ll be the only one able to see it.