Friday, August 14, 2009

House Talk LIVE!! - Web Chat



Fox Providence set up an in-studio web camera and chat room where House Talk viewers can directly submit questions and watch our responses live from their computers. Today's session was about an hour and a half and we answered 20 questions. We had a ton of fun and were very impressed with the quality of questions The pre-recorded in-studio or on location segments are great, but everything is chopped up and we're limited in time, not to mention we are basically assuming the questions that our viewers want to ask based on the issues pertinent to our clients. The live web chat is the perfect forum to establish an open-ended, free flowing dialogue between us and our viewers.

Highlights include: My insistence on dropping in and out of the shot (I was looking at the in-studio camera not realizing half my body was cut out of the web cast), Ron's use of the phrase "hook you up," Ron's various disclaimers when I flew off the handle- most notably, my suggestion "Don't Pay Your Mortgage" which out of context could be very dangerous.

I had some issues viewing the entire webcast on our office computer (not my personal MAC), hopefully you don't have a similar experience