This coming Wednesday, December 8, at 12.00 noon eastern / 11.00am Central / 9.00am Pacific / 5.00pm GMT, there’s going to be a (hopefully) cool and special interactive experiment here on the blog.
Using the interactive features of the Livefyre comment system that’s used here, my special guest will be David Siteman Garland, who’s probably better known as the Rise to the Top guy.
David is one of the leading voices on building and promoting a business, and has a book out called Smarter, Faster, Cheaper. Instead of me writing “just another book review”, David has agreed to be a “live guest” on this blog on Wednesday.
So how’s it going to work?
David will be recording a video, which will be his own take on the book – what it offers, who it’s for, how to use it, etc. I’ll embed it in my post, and then at noon, David will be here to answer your questions about the book, starting a business, promoting it and more.
The difference is, this will all happen in the comments section.
Because Livefyre offers real-time live updates, it’s more like a chat system than your normal blog commenting system. The cool thing is, when a new comment has been posted and you’re on the page, a little alert box pops up to say there’s a new comment (or several, if more than one new comment has been posted as you read).
You can then click on each alert, and it takes you directly to the new comment, so you can see what questions and views are being shared as soon as they’re posted.
So all you need to do is ask your question for David via the comments, and he’ll be spinning his fingers all over the place to respond. You can then reply to David, or anyone else’s comments, and really make it an interactive book review and discussion like no other.
Not only that, but David also has some special giveaways for everyone taking part in the experiment on Wednesday.
To take part, all you need to do is the following:
- Choose your profile. Because Livefyre is a profile comment system, you need to either have a Livefyre account (which you can create here by using the Join option), or sign in to comment using your Twitter or Facebook profile. You’ll see these options under the Comment As option to the right of the comment box.
- Set yourself a reminder (I’ll be tweeting and using Facebook to send out occasional reminders) to be here between 5-10 minutes before noon on Wednesday December 8 to watch David’s video review of his new book.
- Get your questions ready, and fire away from noon onwards.
Like any experiment, there could be some technical gremlins, but hopefully not. The Livefyre guys are working behind the scenes to try and make it as smooth an experience for you as possible. And David has his gremlin-slapping gloves ready, just in case.
Hopefully you’ll join us on Wednesday and have a bunch of great questions for David. I think this could be a lot of fun, and something to show how blog comments can really come alive.
Look forward to seeing you here – cheers!