The Best Way for Online DJ’s To Engage Listeners

For online DJ’s, the task of growing an engaged audience is daunting. Getting people to listen to your music, know your name, and share your content is all dependent on setting yourself apart.

Many fall short in the way they engage their audience. Between Facebook, Twitter and email, you should be able to stay connected to your listeners, right? Unfortunately, these platforms put you in fierce competition with other interests. Using traditional social networks and email can downsize your message to be just a drop in a very full bucket.

In addition to social and email platforms keeping your audience engaged, use live chat to interact with listeners in real time and in a more authentic way which keeps them coming back for more.

dj group chat Engaging listeners through live chat lets them connect with you in a way that is beyond the cold feeling of an email newsletter or Facebook post. Listeners who develop a more personal connect to you are more likely to remember and return to your music.

The next challenge is in finding the right application. The ideal live chat platform will be easy to set up and easily accessible for you and your listeners. RumbleTalk is all of this and more. For online DJ’s, features like embedded videos and file sharing make RumbleTalk’s group chat an obvious choice.

Easy set up

Setting up a customized high powered live chat room can be done in just two minutes. By providing an email or linking to your Facebook account, RumbleTalk automatically generates a live and ready chat room with standard default settings.

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While this is ready to use, most online DJ’s will want to customize the chat for branding purposes. In the admin panel, you can upload a picture of yourself, your logo, or whatever image you prefer to be the background. Then you can customize the colors, font, borders and more to match your style.

If you’re familiar with CSS, RumbleTalk can be completely transformed with CSS customization while still retaining the power of the RumbleTalk infrastructure.

Access from anywhere

A RumbleTalk group chat room works in whatever way you want.

If you have a website, you can embed the chat room directly in one, some or all of your pages. You also have the option to have it sit within the page or float on top of it.

RumbleTalk will also give you a URL that can be sent to your listeners. This will open the group chat in a new tab. Your users can in turn share that URL with their friends to invite more people into the conversation. RumbleTalk has installed an option for users to be asked to share the chat room with their friends on Facebook and Twitter to make your audience even larger.

For online DJ’s with a large Facebook following, it is possible to connect your group chat with your Facebook page so that they are connected to the larger audience and not just the Facebook audience.

If you are performing a live show, printing the QR code on your gear is yet another way to add fans to the conversation. RumbleTalk is mobile friendly so your fans can chat at your show and on the go.

Avoid segmentation

If you want a central place for all of your listeners to be able to engage with you and with each other, live group chat is without a doubt the best solution.

In addition to putting your content in fierce competition with everything else that floods Facebook and Twitter, these platforms also separate your audience. The Twitter conversation and the Facebook conversations never intersect which divides your audience and limits how robust the conversation can be.

If you use your social media platforms as a way to give your listeners the link to your chat room, they’ll then be redirected to one you-focused conversation for everyone.

This way, you and your listeners can see the entirety of those who are listening and engaged with your music.

Posted on July 28, 2016September 30, 2021 by Editor

Group Chat for Remote Medical Education

Medicine is a field that inherently seeks out and adopts cutting edge technology into its practice and the way that medical professionals learn is no exception. Medical students are making use of the range of tools the twenty first century has provided to bring more information to their fingertips. Medical schools offer online classes, digital anatomy manuals, live broadcasted procedures, and more.

RumbleTalk won’t claim to be the latest and greatest of medical technologies, but we will claim to be the best live chat application available for digital medical education. Opening a live group chat for a digital classroom gives students an opportunity to participate in a more natural and connected discussion that forum style commenting doesn’t provide. That much is obvious—but what makes RumbleTalk’s technology better suited for medical professionals?

Below I’ve laid out a few of the features unique to RumbleTalk that have led us to be a trusted live group chat application for education entities.

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Secure connections

From securing copyrighted material to protecting patient privacy, RumbleTalk is a trusted platform for communication regarding legally protected and sensitive information.

RumbleTalk has end to end secured HTTPS, SSL/TLS encryption baked into every message sent and received. This means that hackers won’t be able to listen in on conversations or steal your information.

Password protected users with profiles

Not all chat platforms give you control to choose who can enter the group chat. RumbleTalk allows group chat owners to define who can enter the chat room and how they log in all while preventing public viewing or commenting.

Pre-defined users are given login credentials, basic or moderator privileges, and can have a custom profile description. The profile description is helpful for other users to know who is participating in the conversation and what level of education or experience that individual has.

File sharing

RumbleTalk allows easy file and image sharing. Medical students using RumbleTalk can send papers and presentations to the group with just a few easy clicks and then be able to discuss the content in real time.

Embedded videos and live streams

When a link to a YouTube or Vimeo video is sent in a RumbleTalk group chat room, that video is automatically embedded in the group chat so that it can be played without leaving the room. Instructional videos, recorded lectures, and more can be shared and commented on all within the same tab.

In addition, using YouTube’s live streaming feature, a video can be streamed directly into the group chat room in either the group or private messaging. This is a useful and cost effective for digital classrooms that want to engage online viewers.

When this feature is used during a live broadcasting of a procedure or operation, the directly embedded video sits within the conversation where students discuss elements of the process.

Archived and exported transcripts

After a rigorous discussion, some students or even professors may want to use the transcript of the chat as notes for future studying and review. Unless disabled, RumbleTalk archives chat transcripts so that they can be later exported into HTML files.

From within the chat, any participant can export the chat transcript directly by simply clicking the export button in the dialog box.

Versatile viewing

RumbleTalk HTML5 group chats are designed to be used in any way the user wants. They’re designed dynamically to fit in any space allotted and can be customized to match the aesthetic of the site it is coded into.

From the administration panel, the group chat can be configured to embed directly in a web page or float on top of the page and expand when clicked on. In either case the group chat owner is given a single line of code that can be placed anywhere and as many times on nearly any website.

A URL linking to the chat is also provided for users who do not have or do not want to embed the chat in a site. If you choose this method, users open the chat in a new browser tab and can resize the window to their liking.

In any case, it is important to note that there is no required installation to use RumbleTalk group chat by either the chat owner or user. The group chat is completely functional without have to download software on your computer.

Trusted among education entities

The many benefits of RumbleTalk group chat have been recognized by several academic companies and institutions that have incorporated our platform as part of their online learning programs.

We have even seen RumbleTalk be used alongside a live broadcast of a varicose vein procedure where medical professors participated in the live group chat to discuss their comments, questions and concerns during the broadcast.

Just as medical professionals continue their education post-graduation, we continue to improve the technical infrastructure and features that drive education professionals around the world to trust RumbleTalk as their live group chat application. While the “chat room” has been around for decades, RumbleTalk prides itself on being the chat room you would expect in the twenty-first century. For remote medical education, RumbleTalk is the cutting edge chat technology to be adopted into use.

Posted on July 20, 2016September 30, 2021 by Editor

Online Community Leadership: The Founder’s Mentality

The Founder's Mentality

RumbleTalk customers are by and large online community leaders, and a lot of times the founders of those communities. When I heard that Chris Zook and James Allen were writing another book together titled The Founder’s Mentality, I was instantly intrigued. I was lucky enough to receive complementary advanced copy of the book and will use this blog to discuss the topic.

You can also read my review of the book on Goodreads here.

The first thing you should know is that this isn’t a peachy story about what a founder’s mentality should be in order to achieve success at the outset of an organization. Tellingly, the full title is The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth.

This book is about the mentality you should have if your business is stalling, sliding downward, or in a free fall to bankruptcy. The quick answer, as the title suggests, is to get back to what made the company a success in the first place. The characteristics that (successful) founders embody don’t have to and shouldn’t go away once the company has scaled. However, the process of growing and scaling a company all too often undermines these qualities that made it a success in the first place.

But not all hope is lost for large and struggling organizations

Zook and Allen’s research is used in the book to explain that when a company grows a number of factors remove the business from their best potential route

Some of these factors are:

Layers of complexity are added that slow down the decision making process
Territorial departments protect their budgets rather than moving resources where they are needed
A culture of “this is how we’ve always done it” prevents innovation

These become weights on a sinking ship when the market changes. A business needs to be adaptive, resourceful, and flexible in order to out-pace fast growing competitors.

Zook and Allen use many excellent examples of companies struggling with this situation and how they turned it around.

This is the reason you should read the book

Zook and Allen together have a great background to get information that otherwise isn’t accessible to the general public. It was fascinating to read about the internal workings and failures of some of the world’s largest companies and how each one turned around its situation to then lead the market.

There are also examples of companies that were not able to turn around their situation.

In either case their research shows that simplifying the business structure to be lean, efficient and focused was a necessary step to be on the right path.

Even though the book is about companies in crisis, it’s value can be gained as a cautionary tale and a reaffirmation for founders to stick to their guns.

I was reminded of a Ted Talk I watched a while back about the “Why” factor. Why do you make your product? Why do you perform your service? This is where the company and the company’s message should start.

Lessons for Online Community Leadership

RumbleTalk sees online communities in many different forms.

But at the core of what our customers use our product for, online community leaders offer group chat rooms for their members to tap into the collective emotional or informational knowledge of the community.

After reading The Founder’s Mentality, I hope that online community leadership feel empowered to strip away excess and focus the core of their mission: to bring like-minded individuals together online for a greater purpose.

Lacie Larschan

Posted on June 5, 2016September 30, 2021 by Editor