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(Message started by: amichail on Jul 12^th, 2007, 8:01pm)

Title: Combining blogs and chat rooms
Post by amichail on Jul 12^th, 2007, 8:01pm

The idea here is to associate a chat room with each blog post. So instead of having people submit comments, they would participate in a real-time discussion associated with a particular blog post.

It is important to have a "chat schedule" for each blog post. For example, you might announce 3 chat sessions, each 20 minutes long, for a particular blog post. This sort of schedule is important because you would like to have a reasonable number of people available for real-time chatting.

Title: Re: Combining blogs and chat rooms
Post by Aurora on Jul 15^th, 2007, 11:44am

Surely with members from all over the world, each in different time zones, not everone who wants to participate in a certain chat will be able to, without getting up in the middle of the night? Also, what if there are chats on different topics and you want to participate in both, without missing anything? Having said that, it could prove useful for Icey’s quizzes. If it was easier to follow what was happening in them, I reckon more people would have a shot at the answers.