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WordPress Chat Room an Essential Plug-in for Communities

With the meteoric rise of social media in the last decade, and as technology continues to progress at near lightning speed, communicating with your audience and customers has never been easier and more important than it is now. With WordPress being one of the most popular tool, WordPress chat plugins are also seeing an increase in users.

The Flexibility of Using WordPress

If you already have a website, awesome, you’re ahead of the curve. Whether you are a business or an individual, chances are you use WordPress (over 75 million websites are powered by this platform), which is by far the most reliable CMS tool on the web, allowing both developers and novice users to develop gorgeous and highly intuitive websites. It comes with a plethora of high-powered themes and tools that allow you to create a custom site without a whole lot of heavy lifting.

What makes WordPress so attractive to developers and site managers is its flexibility. It contains numerous cutting-edge and updated plug-ins that can extend the functionality of your site without the need to write one single line of code.

A plug-in like RumbleTalk for example, can not only ensure your online communication success by offering you a direct line of communication from you to your community, but it also can play a significant role in enhancing the usability and functionality of your site (not to mention it integrates seamlessly with a majority of websites). It’s also important to mention that a chat plug-in like RumbleTalk can make your site look more official and as shallow as that may seem, perception can be everything in business.

Fully Customizable WordPress Chat

A combination of live group chat along with private video and audio calls, RumbleTalk is emerging as one of the most popular chat plug-ins for WordPress. With its fully customizable capabilities, not only does it allow you to engage with your web visitors and offer real-time customer service, but it can also be added to a variety of websites and blogs.

Site managers have the unique ability to customize their chats however they choose, whatever fits best with the theme of the site (custom themes can also be created and added). We encourage all site managers to go into settings, play around with the options, and have some fun with it!

Integrate your own userbase with a click

Another unique capability of RumbleTalk chat is its capacity to add your own userbase for automatic login. Registered users in WP,  BBPress, and BuddyPress can automatically log in to the WordPress chat rooms, which means you can make the chat available only for your user base.

This feature is essentially for companies that wish to develop a private group chat utilizing their own already existing userbase. Users can also send internal documents through the chat such as word documents and PowerPoint presentations. This is perfect for situations that call for closed-group discussions, social private groups, or closed communities.

Quick and Easy Set-up

Did we mention the whole thing typically only takes minutes to set up? This WordPress chat plug-in was designed to allow users to add group chats quickly and efficiently. After you have finished activating the plug-in on your site, you can then register and set up your WordPress chat.

Once this is completed, you can then acquire your customized chat code. Once you have your chat code, you can decide on the specific placement and size of your RumbleTalk chat room.

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These steps are both fun and important because this is where you can control any aspect of your chat, from width and height to the actual position of the chat. You also have the option to have it embedded as a floating icon or directly on a page, whatever fits better with the vision you have for your site. Whatever you decide, the conversation stays the same, so you can talk to your visitors while they browse your content!

With its slick interface and no shortage of features, the RumbleTalk plug-in is truly multipurpose and is designed to satisfy any chat-related needs on a WordPress site. It is ideal for group chats, teams, group discussions, and a whole lot more!

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How to Improve Online Radio Stations

For better or worse, I have no need to own a radio. Between my smartphone, laptop and desktop I have no reason to spend my precious money on a device with such little versatility as a radio. If I want to listen to radio, I pull it up on one of my sophisticated electronic devices by visiting the station’s website.

Actually for the better. The Internet makes radio much more competitive and for this reason, better. Listeners are no longer limited to the radio waves in their area, and radio stations can potentially reach listeners around the world. Having more options has brought deserved capitalistic success to stations that create great radio, and forced those who are mediocre to up their game.

And in addition to the market advantages, having radio online gives DJ’s and hosts more opportunities and tools to engage with their listeners. When a listener opens a radio station’s website, they can browse the static information that is relevant to them, such as the schedule or host profile, at a time when they are ready to see it or can participate in live interactions with the show.

RumbleTalk has seen its radio clients benefit from the live interaction that occurs with group chat. Including a live group chat allows listeners and hosts to engage with each other in a public and immersive way. Read on to find out how live group chat improves online radio stations.

Turning Passive Listeners into Active Listeners

It is common to use radio as background noise; but just because a listener tuned into your station with that intent doesn’t mean you can’t convert them into an active user. Knowing and increasing how many listeners are actually active can increase the value of your advertising space whether that is in the form of an audio commercial or display ad. Even generally, it’s better for your station to be heard than to fall on deaf ears.

By including a live group chat in your website, your hosts will have many angles to direct users to your website. This pulls them from distractions like Facebook to your content and increases the value of your “digital real estate”.

For example, the host can upload and embed a video, audio, or video in the live group chat for listeners to comment on, or encourage listeners to send their questions, comments or song requests for live responses. If your station hosts a talk show, the live group chat is a great way to have listeners share their opinions on controversial issues. Stations can also use the live group chat to play trivia or other games.

Watching the Spectacle of Live Radio

There will be typically be people who just want to view the live discussion without participating. Forum style interactions give the sense that the user can return to it any time, but live group chat discussions create a sense of urgency to keep users engaged.

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The content of your live group chat from those who do actively participate in the discussion provides a value-add to the station as a whole. Those who are participating in the chat are generating free content for your other listeners to consume. And expert, interesting, or simply vocal users of the chat can be a driving force for returning listeners who are fascinated with watching the spectacle of a raw discussion.

Some producers will fear the potential for controversy, but controversy should not be overtly avoided. Controversy is a common factor in viral content and viral content is good for business.

However, most radio stations want to have the option to use effective moderation tools. Moderating with RumbleTalk is easy and can be done in steps. You can appoint as many moderators as you would like, create a list of words to be automatically filtered, view the IP addresses of chatters, kick out a chatter, and permanently ban a chatter.

High ROI

Live group chat is an investment with a high return. The reason for this is that listeners who feel emotionally connected to a station return and an emotional connection can easily be made from a human-to-human interaction.

The feeling of sitting in the room with their favorite radio host can be imitated when both the host and the listener are present in the same live group chat room. Alternatives to live group chat lack this human feeling of instantaneous interactions.

In addition to the host-listener relationship, listener-listener relationships are also created. This builds a community of people who feel connected to one another for their mutual interest in the station. That community bond is another driver for returning listeners.

Live group chat increases returning listeners and keep listeners glued to the station website for longer amounts of time. As discussed earlier this makes the value of your digital real estate increase, but what does it cost in the first place?

For a top-of-the-line professional live group chat room, stations can pay as little as $14 per month. This includes the ability to export chat transcripts and monitor how many listeners are logged into your chat. These can be used as resources to prove the extent of your station’s active users.

Choosing a Group Chat for Your Radio Station

While there are many live group chat options available, you’ll want to make sure you are choosing one that has is able to perform at a minimum the following functions:

The last point on that list is crucial to the professional appearance of your station. You don’t want to have to send your customers to a third party site or app in order to get them to participate. Think of it as having your listeners call your station rather than an outside call center. It makes a difference.

And since you will be including this chat on your website, you’ll also want it to be customized to aesthetically fit your website. Using RumbleTalk’s live group chat room has options for those that are novice web designers as well as CSS experts.

Of course, we’re biased because our team works endlessly to make sure that our group chat rooms have all the necessary tools and options to deserve a place in the twenty-first century.

Visit RumbleTalk’s website to get more information on product features, try a demo, and get started with a 7-day free trial.

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The Best Way for Online DJ’s To Engage Listeners

For online DJs, building an engaged audience can be a challenging journey. Standing out and getting people to listen to your music, recognize your name, and share your content requires a unique approach.

Many DJs struggle with effectively engaging their audience. While platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and email offer ways to stay connected, they also place you in direct competition with countless other distractions. Your message can easily get lost in the noise of these crowded channels.

To truly captivate and retain your audience, go beyond traditional methods. Incorporate live chat to interact with listeners in real-time. This authentic, personal connection creates a memorable experience that keeps your audience returning for more.

dj group chatEngaging 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.

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