All About Live Communities, Chatroll and You!

Looking for a full list of emoticons & smileys for Chatroll?  Here it is!  All the standard emoticons are supported.  To send an emoticon, simply type the emoticon text anywhere in your message and press “enter”.  Here’s the list:

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Several Chatroll members have been asking lately about how to add chat to their Wordpress MU (multi-user) installation. Some of these members’ sites are very large: they host multiple Wordpress MU blogs and serve hundreds or even thousands of users.

Adding real-time chat functionality to any large community site is useful for many reasons. While traditional blog posts are a great way for community members to publish their content, live chat gives members a chance to exchange ideas and help each other in a whole new way. The additional functionality you can offer is limited only by your imagination: live blogs, interviews, commentary for live events, virtual community meetings, and more.

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Here’s the easiest way to add a free Blogger chat box widget (also known as shoutbox, chatterbox, or chat room) to your Blogspot blog. Adding a chat box widget to your blog is an easy way to build community on your site and keep your visitors coming back. It’s so easy we can do it in less than a minute. We’ll use Chatroll live communities to create a chat box widget, customize it, and add it to your Blogger layout.

Here’s a screenshot of a Blogger blog with a chat box embedded in the main column:

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Here’s the easiest way to add a free chat box to your Wordpress blog. If we’re fast, we can do it in 60 seconds or less! We’ll use Chatroll live communities, so you don’t even need to install any plugins. The clock is ticking, so let’s go!

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Embedding a chat widget to your website has never been easier. Now, you can also customize the color, size and sound of your embedded chat to fit the style of your site!

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The practice of live blogging is getting more and more attention these days. People seem to have a never-ending thirst for information- the faster, the better. A single blog post about an event after-the-fact might be simply too little, too late.

With a wide range of live blogging tools and many helpful voices around the ‘net, it may not be long before you perform your first live blog. To help you out, we’ve put together 4 essential tips for a successful live blog experience.

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So you’ve decided to add chat functionality to your blog or website. Chat rooms are a great way to let your visitors meet each other and discuss your content. Chat creates a community feel and adds interactivity that can set your blog apart from the rest and keep your visitors coming back!

We’ve put together 3 easy-to-follow steps to embed a chat room in your blog or website using Chatroll live communities. All Chatroll live communities can be easily used as embedded chat rooms. Here’s how:

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Social networking sites have enjoyed amazingly explosive growth since starting to take off around 2004. The current leaders of the pack, Facebook and MySpace, have gained such combined prominence, that it’s very surprising to meet someone who ISN’T a member of one of these networks.

Today, everyone and their mother is going “social”, from blogs about cat pictures to long-time internet and software giants like Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.

So what’s making this phenomenon tick? I’d like to suggest that communication is at the heart of the shift toward social applications and the social internet.

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Do you like simple, nice-looking things? You will be pleased to know that Chatroll has just undergone a massive user interface redesign! Right from the start, we have been obsessed with providing the best interface for live group chat available on the ‘net.

Chatroll is the first network of live communities, so the challenges are all new and there is a lot of experimenting involved, but we’ve made some big steps along the way, and we’re very happy to share some of the results with you!

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Have you heard of Chatroll? Have you heard of Live Communities? If not, you’re exactly who we’ve created this blog for! I’m Jon, one of the founders of Chatroll. Welcome to the official Chatroll blog! We’re really excited about having this opportunity to connect directly with you and talk about Chatroll and Live Communities. You can get more of an idea of what we’re planning for the blog on the about page.

And what better way to get the blog started than by answering the simple question: “What is Chatroll?”

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