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News: New Joomla Chat Room Extension Plugin

We are happy to announce our new Joomla 3 Extension plugin for RumbleTalk chat room.
Now you can add the RumbleTalk chat room service into your joomla website in a couple of simple steps.

This release of Joomla 3 extension was added to former extensions releases.

  • Joomla 3.x extension (New)
  • Joomla 2.x extension
  • Joomla 1.7 extension
  • Joomla 1.5 extension

Joomla 3 chat room extension plugin

  1. First, you will need  your 8 chat chat code. Create account by entering your email & choose a password at https://www.rumbletalk.com/. Then click on the “chat settings” and go to the “Embed” section and get the chat room code.
  2. Second, Install the extension / Plugin (You can simply download it in Joomla website or in here at the bottom of the page). Than follow the next steps.
    • Go to your Joomla admin panel “Administration”, then to “Extensions” -> “Extension Manager”.
    • Select installation archive, for example “plg_rumbletalkchat_v3.x.zip”.
    • Click “Upload File & Install”, after that you should see message about successful installation.
    • Go to “Administration” -> “Extensions” -> “Plugin Manager”. Look for “RumbleTalk Chat – A Chat with Themes” plug-in, and click on it.
    • On next screen select “Enabled”, and insert RumbleTalk Chat code. Optionally set width and or height (both percents are pixels are allowed). Example width or height values: “400px” or “100%” (without quotes). Save the settings, after that you should see a success message.
  3. Inserting RumbleTalk Chat to Article.Once you installed the plugin, you will need to choose where to use it. To add it to a page/article :

    Go to “Content” -> “Article Manager”. Create new or edit existing Article. Insert {rumbletalkchat} shortcode anywhere inside Article.

This is pretty much all. You can see a full guide in here.

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The Return of Chat Rooms for Web Sites

There was a time when chatting in a group simply suggested written text. Back than it was used for mainly fun. What we see today that chat rooms for web sites are back, mostly in the business arena and mainly for community management.
More and more companies and webmasters seems to see the benefit in adding a chat room to their website to manage and engage their community.

chat rooms for web sites

This is also backed-up by statistics. Numbers show that chat rooms for web sites lead to an increase in website visitors.

  • A further reason to return to the website, up to 45% more than without one.
  • Chat rooms in websites make users stay longer, up to 5 minutes more.
  • Chat rooms also help to build a community and let users a further reason to return to the website.

EXAMPLE: Try out a live example (WordPress plugin)

In the 90’s, chat rooms meant text chat, But today, chatting is not limited to writing anymore. New HTML5 chat rooms are equipped with various modern options. This is the result of new emerging technologies like WebRTC (new technology by Google), NodeJS and bootstrap. Now you can easily use a chat conversation to:

  • Sharing and uploading files, docs, pdf
  • Sharing and uploading images
  • Selfie – the new trend with web chats
  • Sending Audio messages
  • Sending Video messages
  • Share YouTube videos

The new html5 + webRTC features also come with the ability to customize a chat room look and feel. This means one can design using CSS his own chat room style and do in simply a couple of minutes. This all package, let business owner communicate with their prospective audience in a more attractive way. If you have a smartphone or tablet, you can talk to your friends from simply anywhere.

Business community management is not a single tool that does it for you. It is hard work. But with today’s tools, it becomes easier than ever to manage a community. It means, that combining various tools like Trouble Ticketing system, knowledge base services, Support chat for immediate response to questions and a Chat room to manage virtual events or webinars are the keys for successful management. We even sometimes feel that in large cooperation, a website without a chat is considered incomplete nowadays.

Website chat rooms intensify the gathering and socializing and even make the online community as close as possible to real life.

To make it even more social, chat rooms now days have the ability to invite chatter friends to join the chat room and gossip, your website gets traffic. You can even manage several chats room based on topics or duration.

As always the tools to control an actual conversation are still in place, a chat owner can delete messages, clear the entire chat conversation, ban trolls if you think they are harmful to your chat room. You can also restrict words and phrase that you think is illogical and bad.

Mmm, It seems chat rooms are here to stay as they are a basic fundamental of being social or shall we say, human.

Get your own chat room  >>

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Using the WebRTC Technology in RumbleTalk Chatroom

WebRTC is probably the most amazing technology invented in the last couple of years. It lets you do complex software development in minutes all  from any web-browser.

In RumbleTalk, we lately launched a new chat room version that uses this technology and we see already amazing results. WebRTC allows us to integrate the possibility for chatters to use the PC camera and microphone and with that send sound messages to the chat room in addition of being able to take selfie photos. All is done from the browser.

What is WebRTC?

So, WebRTC is an open project that enables any web browser to have a Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities, such as camera and sound usage via simple JavaScript API. The WebRTC components have been optimized to let developers add real time communication in a pretty easy manner.

How do we use it in RumbleTalk chatroom?

Using WebRTC allows us to do amazing things like sending short video messages during the chat (Firefox only at this stage), send short audio messages between the group members (chatters) and much much more.

We feel that with the former feature  we enabled last month of having the ability to upload files. It is making the chatroom service more attractive and complete for chatters.

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