I firstly started looking into Live Web 'Chats,' this turned out to be a BAD idea! The majority of search results that where coming up where for 'adult chat' sites, now I'm sure there all lovely but this is not the time or the place, so time to change the search criteria: Live web 'Interviews' - much more intellectual - not that the ladies on these other channels aren't obviously!
So onto better things:
Firstly I came across this site:
www.twtvite.com
The site is dedicated to live web chats and interviews, creating a large 'database' of both up coming and previous live web chats. The site is extremely simple, using basic tabs and search bars so that you can search for specific interviews. there are four main tabs that allow you to RSVP the chat, see who else is attending, a tweet tab to see what tweets have been posted about the event and finally photos about the event that people can upload. The site embraces a number of social networking medias, whilst at the same time remaining simple to use and to the point.
The site also enables you to create your own 'twtup' on any subject of your choose; creating a group and inviting others to join in with the chat. It also allows you to look into country and area specific chats; for if you want to join in with much more of a local issue.
The 'London' Area Page:
TV Soap Interviews
OK so the next port of call was to scwore the BBC archives. I thought about when you watch TV soaps (obviously with my mom) about the interviews that are offered with the cast after the episode; so that you can ask the actors a question about the show etc. So off onto the Eastenders site. there are no real live interviews on the main site which made it a little difficult so i started to look into their archives to see if they had any previous interviews that I could use as examples; low and behold they did.
Heres a few as examples:
An interview with 'Little Mo'
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/livechat/stream/kacey2ee.rm?start="00:30.00"&end="24:36.00"&BBC-UID=24dc6072e62f852c5b29a95ef18ad24baa891e2f60a01184e4bf892794432d75&SSO2-UID=
An interview with 'Billy'
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/livechat/stream/perry_fenwick.rm?start="12:40.00"&end="45:26.00"&BBC-UID=24dc6072e62f852c5b29a95ef18ad24baa891e2f60a01184e4bf892794432d75&SSO2-UID=
An Interview with Sir David Attenborough
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/livechat/stream/sirdavidattenborough.rm?start="03:05.00"&end="44:35.00"&BBC-UID=24dc6072e62f852c5b29a95ef18ad24baa891e2f60a01184e4bf892794432d75&SSO2-UID=
All of these interviews allowed the viewers to ask their questions live to the 'celeb' something which i feel adds another personal level to a campaign; allowing the user to interact; and giving them a sense that they 'know' the person that is being interviewed.
Next I came across this site:
www.keithrichards.com
This is the site of rock legend Keith Richards. The site contains photo galleries, bios etc. but the reason I have selected it as it has a nice 'ask keith' secton where fans can ask keith anything over webcam and he will record his replys
