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Using a Group Chat for University Live Event

A campus life in university is a life full of possibilities and plenty of excitements. For student attending university, there are so many things to do, and yet so little time. Sports events, music show, sorority or fraternity gathering, special interest club meetings and many other activities aim to enrich the quality of student life. One of the most interesting item we encounter during our short years in campus is the abundance of university live event. There is no single day passes by without an event takes place. Whether a sports, musical performance, cultural expose, performing arts, exhibitions, and  even a protest or demonstration.

With so many interesting things happen in university campus, it is common for campus to have their own media publication like newspaper, magazine, radio station and TV station. Usually, students are the ones who run that publications and they cover campus life and event.

University Live Event

However, Internet as publication media still remains unknown territory for university students. There are some efforts to explore Internet as communication media, but most of them ended up to be a business. Facebook is one example of the campus media that become a huge business. In the beginning, Facebook humble beginning was a Harvard and Ivy League universities social media network before it begin its journey as a public social media network.

Live event chat room design

It seems that Internet must be used solely as a publication media, similar to campus newspaper or radio and TV station. Nowadays, Internet as publication media hold new technology which available with the new HTML5 standard. As new standard in web presentation HTML5 design focus on its support to multimedia presentation on web browsers. Hence, Internet technology is now capable to provide chat room with multimedia chat like audio and video chat.

Previously, chat room require application to be installed in a computer. However, thanks to HTML5 new standard, this technology is available in to be delivered to web browsers. A company with high pitch of technology can develop sophisticated application platform that enable a chat program on web browser.

When group chat is attached to any university live event, you can be sure there will be a surge of visitors and audience come to that event. The reason is because of students need medium to express their feeling, ideas and sometimes anger and a group chat is a great media to accommodate them.

Why Chat Room for University Live Event

A university live event always attract students attention, and students always has a lot to say about things they are attracted to. It seems they always have a comment for almost everything and they need a media to express that things to say. Group chat platform technology can arm university live event to accommodate that excessive needs from the students.

Group chat will attract student to state their mind about issues that they concern about. A group chat on a web chat platform surely suits their needs. One main reason is the absence of installation  and setting up. Chatting can be initiated only with a web browser.

Furthermore, web chat must have synchronized chat technology. This will allow event organizer to have the same chat room in multiple pages in multiple campus web sites. Let us say, an event organizer for a university live event want to have a chat room in its Facebook page and also in its event websites and campus website. They can install the same chat room in those places, so they can have multiple chat room thus enlarging the range of audience. Those who land on Facebook page, on the event website or browsing through campus website can see the chat room activity at the same time. They also can join the chat room right at the moment easily, without having to go to another website.

Securing University Online Event

Although sometimes chat room, especially when students cram the chat room, it can contain gibberish message or spam from the visitors. There is always irresponsible people who will try misuse the chat room and spreading spam in the chat room, with whatever reason they have. Especially those who oppose an occasion like a particular university live event. They will surely try to do anything with their might to cancel the event to occur. However, such irresponsible behavior should never be tolerated. Therefore, a group chat must have a top of the line security protection.

In order to install chat platform as to equip any university live event, it is a very good thing to always ensure the security measure provided by the chat platform. Especially in its capability to handle spam and inappropriate message. First, it must have a strengthened security technology and the latest SSL. Second, it has to be equipped with anti spam technology and words blocking to blacklist unwanted words and preventing chat room abuse.

With those considerations in mind, you can rest assured anytime you arrange university live event, it will always be a successful one.

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New Feature: Customize your Mobile Chat using CSS

Since we launched RumbleTalk HTML chat service for websites. We tried to give our customers a full control over their HTML chat room look and feel. The service was built as a JavaScript chat on the client side with light HTML5 and CSS.

Back then the chat looked exactly the same in mobile and web. However, since mobile has special features and behavior, we found out that web view was causing many mobile users to leave the chat. We then built the Mobile chat version of RumbleTalk which made a huge difference for customers and mobile usage.

When we started RumbleTalk, we created an “Advanced design” feature, where people could change colors, backgrounds, borders, fonts, font size, and more.

However, after a while, we understood that for advanced users and web designers, this was simply not enough. The requests for additional customization options came too often. So we decided to add the option to let customers design the entire HTML chat room look and feel using CSS. It meant back then that users would control any aspect of the chat design simply by letting them control the CSS.

Web Design
Web Style Web Chat Design

In the example image above, we loaded a new background using CSS. This is basically what a customer sees when he/she is using a PC or laptop (using a web browser).

This was a big boost for RumbleTalk as web designers and website developers started to design special customized HTML chat room skins. It was a unique, fresh approach for designers that let them actually, design. It also meant that they could avoid using off-the-shelf flash-like chat room software that always looks strange with respect to their website design.

One more important point, web designers have the option now to design the chat room for customers with the exact look & feel of their website without compromising on the quality and look and feel. This made RumbleTalk very popular with web designers that expressed themself easily and were not forced to use a 3rd party chat software that has none or very limited customization options.

Mobile, here we come

When we were done with the Web CSS feature (Control the chat design for web browsers). We understand that the work is not finished. We knew that in order to give a complete 360-degree solution, we would need to allow customers to change their mobile chat CSS as well.

We are happy to announce that this feature is now released. Yehaaaaee √√√

So, the mobile CSS feature was launched last week. You can now create and customize your mobile chat design. Note, that we gave some technical CSS tips in here to help you start the process of changing the most common items that customers often ask us about.

Quick Example of CSS design option.

To explain it better, let me start with the original idea, RumbleTalk comes with a default mobile theme that was not editable till now.

You may see below how we transform in 3 steps from the default mobile theme to a custom chat room theme.

mobile chat CSS design for websites

So, what do you see here in this example above?

  1. First, you see on the left, the default design that is part of every chat room created.
  2. Then we loaded up the same background we had in the web chat design.
    See here the line we added.#chat { background: url(“https://rumbletalk-images-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/a78f4e7c872dbc2654ea3bb2238ef365/1448364119-colors.jpg”) no-repeat scroll left center; }
  3. Then we changed the header and foot colors.top-bar { background-color: #0373d1 !important; }
    #bottom { background-color: #0373d1 !important; }
  4. At last we increased the font size to 20px.#chat { font-size: 20px !important; }

Customize your Mobile Chat

admin panel mobile css design

Changing your mobile CSS is done in the advanced design menu, in a new tab called Mobile CSS.
You can control all the design aspects of the chat, mainly used to customize your mobile chat looks but also can help in adding functionality (limited though).

The most common requests that we get from clients for mobile customization are:

Background

  • Changing the Top top-bottom bar color
  • Changing the chat background color

Fonts

  • Changing the Font size

Admin User

  • Changing the ADMIN image
  • Changing the ADMIN text color
  • Changing the default image of a guest user using CSS
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Business Chat Room is the Most Effective way for Internal Communication

An office is an hectic place. No so long ago, if you needed to talk to someone in another room, you simply went to the other room and talk to the other person. Than latter on you used a phone call and recently in the past decade you send email or send text messages. Than mobile apps came along and the options were unbelievable.

I remember that my colleague were just sitting in-front of me and when I was hungry, I sent them an email with the question “Lunch?“. The reply was “In 5 minutes“. This approach was fine for making a decision for going together to lunch, but when communication involve a group, it get complicated.

Now, we have tons of options to communicate this days like iMessage, Skype, Google Talk and Twitter direct messages. Each have their own usage and you can get business done with them just as much as with a professional business chat app.

A business chat room app is making teams more efficient and combine the communication between the different groups. It gives extra value if :

  • The team seats in different locations, different floors or even different countries.
  • There is time differences between the team members.
  • A company needs to make internal communications richer than emails with attachments, simpler than sending a text, and as easy to search through as your Evernote notebooks.

Check if you need an HTML Business Chat for your Team?

Of course, No one needs to be yelling from office to office, or send a lot of emails with many CC’s and attachments. It’s basically a lost of valuable time. Here are the things you can use a group business chat for.

Share Files and Documents

Working with a team requires a lot of documents sharing. It is important that one can upload his own files and share with his group. The group chat must have an option to share videos and images directly in the business chat (not as a file).

When one upload a file it is automatically detected and presented as attachment or as inline image. For example, if one upload a word document, it will show as a word icon. While when uploading a youtube video, it will show in the chat with a play icon.

Send Short Audio Messages

Record short audio messages to the team, can be very helpful when sent to the group. This can be done by clicking on the attach icon and clicking on the record audio icon.

Live Video Calls Between Chat Members

Live Video and Audio calls is needed for private conversation between two members of the group.

Private chats

Some time we will need to talk in private with one member of the group. We can use the old concept of private text messages done by clicking on the user name that we wish to talk to.

Design

Team chat can be customized to your own liking. So design one that looks good and prefer the ones that let you do it using CSS.

See how it will look like :

Pricing

Pricing is not something a company can ignore. If group chat is needed and the benefits are clear, there are many that offer group business chat for teams. Choose the most attractive one for your team.

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