If you’d joined our improv comedy showcase on June 25, you would have seen that we effortlessly navigated fourteen (yes, 14) audience interactions where the audience was included, acknowledged, and engaged. Juggling was never a strong suit and so we were glad for having launched our Run of Show feature a week ago. It is now available for everyone.

This. Changes. Everything.

Much like preparing slides in advance, you can now sequence your audience interactions in the order you plan to ask them of your audience. Start with a map, then a poll, then a word-cloud,and again a poll, and finally see all the questions people asked - thanks to the magical Quick Questions module (see June’s updates below for more on this).

Run of Show

Here are the actual screenshots from our last showcase event… First, we created a run of show from the main menu…

Then, we added interactions one after the other - with settings for each. Here are 4 of our 14:

Then, we created a meeting since this was on Zoom. Works similarly with YouTube or Teams…

Next, we connected a “Run of Show Template” (you can have as many as you want) to the upcoming event.

That’s it. Once the event was on, we simply clicked connect and went through the run of show. Here are the first four…

…and the last 4 (of 14)…

After the event, here’s what our Analytics looked like…

Love those engagement spikes - the secret: simply include your audience. That’s our raison d’etre.

Transient thoughts

Choice circle

Lots of behind the scenes work that will go into production in Q4

That was fast. See the difference between the main screen this month and last?

We just launched Quick Questions. This is a game-changer; StreamAlive can now automatically identify and list anything that smells like a question.

Folks who have seen it have called it MAGIC.

In effect, the app intelligently sniffs out questions that participants put in the chat. The questions would typically be sprinkled and sporadic in the chat. There could be a genuine question hidden between random comments or amidst the responses to a “where are you joining us from?” question. It doesn’t matter - StreamAlive will ferret it out. All you need to do is simply click the “Quick Questions” icon to see something like this. Oh, and you can also delete questions or check them off as you answer them.

Here’s what the main screen (soon to be called “Increase Engagement”) looks like now.

This cues that there is a lot more coming - to increase engagement.

The maps, polls, and word clouds were just starters.

The next big feature is “Quick Questions” - if you encourage your audience/participants to ask questions, you’ll love this and wonder how you managed without it so far.

We’re also working on a full-fledged “Run of Show” module that will help presenters fire up visual engagements with a simple click.

It’s been a super busy month. For starters, we’ve been tightening up performance on Zoom and Zoom Webinar. These are the things you don’t see when they work fine but will notice if they’re awry.

Heads up on Zoom Webinar - once you admit the StreamAlive bot, please upgrade her to a panelist. That way, she can read any chat messages that are sent to “host and panelists” only.

Here’s some of the major stuff we released this month - starting with a bunch of settings to accommodate typos, disallow profanity, restrict responses, split phrases, etc

Analytics (we’ll be renaming it soon to “Track & Convert Engagement”)

Go through your meeting / event / livestream history...

Analyze it to see a cornucopia (been itching to use that word) of information - starting with an overview and links/tabs to the details:

This list will soon be downloadable too:

Engagement spikes up each time you use StreamAlive. It’s simple; people love to be involved, not ignored:

Click on a band (visual interaction)to see the underlying comments - these can (soon) be downloaded as they could be great signals of intent:

Want to revisit the summary of your interactions? The Engagement results (need a better name) tab is exactly that:

Our Zoom Beta product is publicly showcased. In case you missed it, check this out:

We quietly pushed a whole new module - it’s simply called “Analytics” for now - but that will change soon into “Track Engagement” and “Convert Engagement”. It’s just another big reason to connect StreamAlive to your livestreams and live events. You’ll get nifty intel like this - and down the line, we’ll even tell you who regularly attends your streams, events, and webinars.

For example, this is a performance snapshot of one of our Zoom events...

...and this one tells us who was most involved...

Saw that pause button in the bottom-right? Let’s press it...

Flamethrowers are not allowed on tables. Boom...

Now, we can play again (see button above)...

Note to self: use Loom/video next time. Note to reader: we probably need a better word than pause? “Pause” does not cue the ability to remove an errant word afterward. “Remove a word” perhaps? Followed by “I’m done” instead of play?

Track engagement: wavy engagement meter (changed to LED meter later)

Increase engagement: