While everyone at home was watching as Mashable and WebProNews were blogging live from the Keynote address today, Wayne Sutton (@WayneSutton) tweeted a link to his blog with a Live video stream of the presentation.Within minutes, Wayne had tons of people going to his site to watch as Evan Williams discussed the new Twitter platform (called @anywhere) for integrating Twitter into websites. For detailed information on the keynote itself you can see Mashable's coverage.
Congrats to Wayne for thinking of posting this live and setting it up for many of us at home who couldn't attend SXSW Interactive. Mashable even linked up to the video on their website to increase the outreach. Unfortunately, Wayne ran out of battery power and the feed went down for a while until Leslie Bradshaw lent him her Mac Air to continue livestreaming. Instead of expecting another site to live stream, Wayne was able to provide a solution to a problem we all faced at home - not being able to see the keynote. Further, Leslie and Wayne worked together to get the stream back on air after the short outage. That is what I call collaboration!
This was a great way for Wayne to open his outreach to a larger audience. You can find him at the links below. Thanks to Leslie as well for helping!
What did you think about Wayne's live broadcasting? Is this his 15 minutes of fame or do you think he will be able to use this to broaden his audience?
5 comments:
Wow, thanks for the blog post and congrats to you for posting so quick right after the keynote. I hope it's not my last 15min of fame. :) Keep in touch.
Wayne has the ability to re-create his 15 minutes every day; as expected, another smart move by him...
Really a SMART move! Thanks Wayne and Leslie. Can't wait to see where you go next!
Wayne - I'm sure it's not your last 15 minutes. You seem to have it down pretty well of extending beyond that and reaching an audience on a regular basis. Congrats again on all the attention you deserve today
Eric & Natasha, thanks
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