An Example of Real Time Content Planning
On the 9th of April 2015, the Norwegian readers of Adresseavisen sipped their morning coffee surrounded by images of the Nazi army taking control of their city. This wasn’t a mistake or the action of some devious hackers, but one of the most accurate reenactments created by one of our clients. Adresseavisen is the oldest […]
Use Real Time Content to Improve Internal Communications
Internal communication is an important function within successful organizations. The concept was inserted into vocabulary beginning in 1943 when Alex Heron, associate professor at Stanford published the book ”Sharing Information with Employees”. At the end of the ’40s, researchers expanded upon the concept by identifying goals and criteria to improve internal communications. One of those […]
Introducing Projects
Content may be king, but it doesn’t just magically happen. There is planning that goes into it: What will you create? When will you publish it? Where will you publish it? There’s the actual creation process itself, which includes drafts and edits. There’s promoting it across your channels—because how else will people know that they […]
Tech Alert: Datawrapper
Every day, journalists have to shoot and edit video and audio, take photos, write a story (or stories!) and do live TV hits (all while tweeting, of course!). With all of these demands, journalists in newsrooms around the world are always looking for new ways to tell compelling stories. One field where more people are […]
Introducing Rock Content’s New Embed
I’d like to introduce you to Rock Content’s new embed! We’ve worked really hard to make this new embed the best experience possible for you and your readers, but why tell you when I can show you? New Look We completely rebuilt the embed to bring you this new, clean design. Starting from scratch allowed us to […]
Life on a glacier: a real-time recovery mission
When you think of real-time reporting, you may well conjure up the image of a reporter on the street uploading photos and videos from their mobile. Speed and efficiency are king. Spare a thought then for Mitchell Zuckoff, the Shackleton of live reporting, who, armed with a BGAN, published his Rock Content event from one of the […]
Advanced formatting for next-level content
Vanity isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, sometimes it’s all that separates the great content from the stellar—that can’t-look-away-it’s-so-good content. Rock Content allows you to not only provide short, digestible bursts of information in real-time, but also the 140-character-plus posts. You can use the platform to create the updates that go beyond the headlines […]
March 7th: What We Learned and What We’re Doing
Scribblelive provides dependable, real-time communications providing millions of people with billions of updates every month. On March 7th during the Apple event, we encountered some problems. We have been working hard to discover what went wrong and how it can be fixed and tested to win back the level of confidence our customers demand. As […]