Boutique Group Chat for Internet Radio Station

Internet radio is booming!
Since 2008, the number of people listens to Internet radio is growing significantly. A year before, in 2007, traditional AM/FM radio audience was declining, based on Arbitron research company, who becomes Nielsen Audio today. Another research by Triton Digital shows that last year, in 2014, almost half of 124 million people in America listen to Internet radio, to be exact the number is 47%.

With the growing number of audiences, here comes the question, how can we create a better experience for our audiences?
Based on the data from two most respective research companies: Triton and Nielsen Audio, we really have to consider Internet radio station as a serious digital media to convey message.  The power of Internet radio is in its casual listening experience, that enable people listen to online radio while they doing other activities. We have discussed how radio chat room is able to create a better experience for radio station. Availability of chat for Internet radio station will create a very interactive way of old-fashioned phone and conversation between radio DJ and audience.

Chat for Internet Radio Station and Its Audience

The staggering number of Internet radio audience is really something to be taken seriously by radio station operated on the Internet. Within 4 years, from 2010 to 2014, the number of online radio audience has increased 20% and most of them are listening the radio in their smart phone or desktop computer/laptop. Surprisingly, majority of Internet radio audiences come from 12-24 years age group, the age group whose preferences can change within second and they can easily switch channel. For this age group, radio station must be able to catch their attention to make them keep listening to the station without switching channel.

It is important for radio station to engage audiences more actively, one of which is to invite them in giving their feedback or create an online conversation. We have seen in the previous article  of what RumbleTalk chat for internet radio is capable of in energizing a live event.  Actually, html chat platform provides the most convenient way for both radio station and audience to communicate and interact.
Why?

Stylish look - A Chat for internet radio
Stylish look – A Chat for internet radio

Synced Chat for Internet Radio Station

The number one reason is its easy installation. A chat room should not need a complicated setup in your Internet radio station website. Our infrastructure provide the best of Internet chat platform available today. With an HTML5 technology, we have the most powerful chat technology, you can embed chat in any where you want and it will fit right to the space you allocated.

The most time consuming activity to register to a new service is the registration process. Users will just left the service when they found out the service requires a complicated registration. That will not happen when chat platform has social media integration . Users can login to your chat using their existing Facebook or Twitter account. With more than a billion of users, Facebook is just like an Internet ID for everyone. So, when chat platform is installed in your website or Facebook page, your audiences can join the chat using their Facebook account.
Very simple and easy…

The other important thing is multiplicity.
One distinctive feature of html web chat platform is synced (synchronized) chat room.  Chat for Internet radio can put the same chat room in both web page and Facebook page, and messages posted in different place synced automatically across all chat rooms. This gives wider audience opportunity to chat in a multi channel. With this synced feature, people who go in web page chat room will be able to communicate with those who enter Facebook page chat room, as if they are in the same chat room.

What is Better for Internet Radio Station?

We have to admit there is none better than online dialogue solution for Internet radio station. It is the best way to engage audience in the 12-24 age group than opening multiple channel.  We already know the type of anxiety disorder affecting this age group called FoMO (Fear of Missing Out).

People who struggle with FoMO are wrestling to balance the peer pressure with their self-actualization.  Helping them by giving choice so they can chose something based on their personal preferences is the least radio station can do to help them to chose something on their own, not based on peer-pressure.

With our synced chat, people only see the other people sending chat in the conversation. They will not be able to know whether the other parties are sending message from Facebook page chat or from another website. They can only see that there are other parties participating in the chat room.

This synced chat is also providing great benefit for radio station. They can install the same chat room in multiple places:  Facebook pages, their websites and also their partner website with ease, because knowing all the chat room will be treated as one chat room with html chat platform.

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Creating Interactive Live Event Chat

Live event entertainment has been around in human being daily for centuries. We, human being are enjoying live entertainment from the early days of civilization. Watching a horse race, gladiator fight and other forms of entertainment have been our way to enjoy live since a long time ago.
As civilization grow more advanced, live entertainment become more and more improved. With today’s technology, live event chat can even be possible to create a highly interactive live event.

What is Live Event Chat?

Live event chat is a technology where remote audience and viewers can interact with the event held by the organizer and broadcasted over the television or multimedia channel. Television industry has been the relying on the live event for some time. This is the age of online availability, the era that everything can go online in a matter of second, where information can travel around the world within second.

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Regardless any type of event; music concert, webinar, talk show, radio streaming, all events can use live event chat room (a group chat) to create more attractive event. In 2014, CNBC predicted the future of music concert with social wearables and interactive live shows. On its July 21st article, the author, Everett Rosenfeld quote the event guru regarding the rise of FoMO trend for live event. FoMO, stands for fear of missing out, is a type of anxiety occur in today’s digital age where people have fear of getting out of touch, or absent from social events or experiences that generally a hype among their community or social circle. Such event can be a TV show, some events, gathering or a restaurant, and now FoMO has spread to live event. FoMO induce some pervasive habit in today’s social life, like constantly checking smartphone or gadgets, or anxiety when they did not receive email or message or chat for a couple of minutes.

How Live Event Chat Helps FoMO Anxiety

Social media, mobile devices and gadgets have pervasively invaded our private life in a way more than we ever foresee or imagine. FoMO is a phenomenon that affects the 18-34 years of age group or known as teen millennials. Young people in those age group are prone to peer-pressure that can lead to low self esteem. It is because young people will look upon other’s approval for their self value, that makes them caught and struggle with FoMO.

People who struggle with FoMO will receive benefits with availability of live event chat. They will be able to participate in live event, as long as the event is equipped with live event chat room. RumbleTalk chat platform provide such ease and simplicity with the needs for live event chat.

We encourage event organizers to enable RumbleTalk platform in all live events they manage to enable interaction from people with the event. It does not matter what type of event, because as long as the events have chat room for people to interact and show their interest, the event will generate more audience and revenue. The availability of live event chat will benefit both the event organizer and the audiences, because event organizer can grasp the idea for the next event, based on audience participation and their idea during live event chat. While for people who struggle with FoMO, there is no reason for them to feel being left out, because they now can interact with event organizer, performers, host and everyone related to the event through live event chat.

Live Event Chat Enhances Interactivity

In the previous article, we know that RumbleTalk be able to help Radio station increasing their audience and interactivity. The same thing goes to live event as well. Every one of us understand how important for a live event to be interactive. Television broadcast and radio show have been opening phone line to enable direct interaction from audience and viewers with the show. Yet, starting a few years ago, some television talk show started to use Skype for video interaction with their home viewer. The conversation is displayed in the inset on the TV screen for home viewer to be able to watch it as well as studio audience. Now, the technology has advanced to be able to provide more level of interaction with live event chat.

It is because talk show, variety show or another interactive TV shows require more than just a great host and television personalities to lead the event. They need fresh approach and variation, so audience wait and expect something different and more enhancing than just watching a host and invited guest talk on the TV screen.

What is The Best Technology for This?

RumbleTalk provide the technology for talk show to have a live event chat for home viewers to contribute, more than just a phone line or video conference. This will certainly boost number of viewers. Moreover, when the live event chat room is displayed in the inset, the home viewers will increase significantly. By nature, human are narcissist. Therefore, enabling the live event chat in the television broadcast and put the conversation on screen, will encourage viewers to participate. It is because they are definitely eager see their name comes in the TV screen.

With advance HTML5 technology, RumbleTalk chat platform is the best solution for all needs of live event chat. People who participate in chat room will be able to attach their picture or video from YouTube or Vimeo easily. Not only that, we have video chat technology that will enable host to invite home viewer to perform a teleconference with ease. Our video chat requires only a browser, thus minimizing the installation of application in the computer. People who is invited to video chat will be able to chat from their smart phone or tablet with ease. They do not need to stand by in front of their computer just to be able to engage in video chat.

That is how easy for event organizer, TV station and radio station to engage more audience in their live event with RumbleTalk live event chat.
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Private Group Chat – How to Make your Team Collaborate

My father started a small insurance company.  After three years, his business had grown to hire five employees. Business was going well, but with this growth he found himself spending more and more time just on communicating and managing his employees. Before long, he saw his revenues declining as a result of spending too much time managing instead of innovating and selling his products.

He then hired an expensive consultant to analyze every aspect of his business, including time management. The consultant observed day-to-day business, studied the books, and spoke to each team member about their experience in the company. After an in depth study of my father’s business the consultant handed over a thick document containing his conclusions.

 

The Expert Conclusion

Throughout the document, emphasis was placed on the fact that team communications were inefficient. It simply took too long for an idea to go from conception to implementation. Follow up rarely occurred causing good ideas to be forgotten. The study also found that a whopping 20% of my father’s time was wasted on repeating himself. Fortunately, the consultant also had a solution.

His suggestions seemed so simple and worked like magic in my father’s business. The result of adopting the consultant’s proposals cleared more time to be productive and of course to spend more time with his family, which meant a lot to us kids. When the changes took effect, the small insurance company gained increasing revenues and my father’s delight spread throughout our family.

 

What Was The Offer You Ask?

The Eight-Minute method: outlined in the consultant’s recommendations, uses three principles to make meetings productive and efficient. Try these steps at your next office meeting.

  1. Uncomfortable Meetings – Stay put, this is not like it sounds! Sitting comfortably around a conference room table (or similar group chat environments) tends to extend meetings as employees leisurely discuss subjects that are not at the core of the business. Small talk can be good in the right environment but should be avoided when team members are delivering goals and objectives.
    The solution: make them physically uncomfortable. The consultant suggested status meetings be done while STANDING. When you are not comfortable for short focused meetings you will seek to concentrate on the subject so you will be back to the sitting position as fast as you can. This strategy worked perfectly for my father’s team to “stay on their toes” throughout the duration of the meeting.
  2. Short Meetings – For my father’s business this meant a maximum meeting time of eight minutes. Short meetings are more productive. Team members ought to prepare beforehand and be ready to focus. With a time limit, updates will become concise and unnecessary commentary will be put aside.
  3. Structured Meetings – In the insurance company, my father had two minutes to deliver the status update and each employee had one minute to describe their progress and plan. This gave purpose to every second of the meeting and cut out all wasted time. Everyone was ready and able to focus. This made their time more productive and greatly reduced conversation overlap after.

“Uncomfortable,” short, and structured meetings worked for my father and can work for your business too.

 

Private Group Chat Is Necessary

Today, in the digital era, we face the same challenges my father had with respect to team management. Almost 15 years have passed since my father got this magic formula for efficient meetings. The world is quickly changing, but the concept of meetings has stayed the same.

In today’s world we have many tools to help us cope successfully with team management, but there is no substitute for structured meeting, repetitive habits and discipline.

Business Is Changing

We are living in interesting times, technology is booming and employees can now connect from anywhere using their smartphones and tablets.  We are no longer chained to our desks to use a computer, and thank goodness! Companies are restructuring to adapt to the technological revolution. Businesses’ no longer need offices and team members can work from home, from different cities, and even from different countries.

This new found luxury of remote working and telecommuting introduces a new challenge, how do you manage a team that is not located in the same place?

 

Collaboration: Using Private Group Chat

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Share Files, Images, Take Photos, Video Calls and much more

The best tool to effectively manage geographically dispersed teams is a private group chat specially built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). This is a powerful way to manage remote teams and still confers to the three steps the consultant sent to my father 15 years ago. Remote team management can be very easy – given the right tool is chosen.

In general SMB’s with tight budget should avoid expensive tools. The most important features are common in most private group chat rooms software or service and therefore one should make sure the list of features below exist.

  • Chat discussion in a group
  • Private conversation
  • Video & audio calls
  • Share files and images
  • Share YouTube videos
  • Record short messages
  • Moderate with ease

When making a strategic decision for your team communications, don’t settle. Private group chat that is actually built for business with all the mentioned features above is not easy to find. Finding one at reasonable price –  is even harder.

If you can have functionality, a good price, AND the extra goodies of customizing your group chat style, chat persistence, history saving and exporting capabilities, video calling, security SSL and some fun stuff like emoticons and using your pc or mobile camera to take selfies, than you have a winning choice.

 

The Final Secret to Private Group Chat for Teams

Recruiting talented people for your business and creating a collaborative team takes a lot of effort. After thorough screening and some trial and error, the most important tools for your business will be the people you hire. The second most important tool will be the technology they use to communicate.

Trust your instinct and keep communication as minimal as possible on a daily basis.  Over-communication, missed communication, and unnecessary communication all lead to wasted time and money. Effective communication leads to accomplishing goals.