Remember we can broadcast live!

ipadio can do so many things – from the myriad of applications in corporate communications to the phone blogging and podcast hosting that we offer, it might be easy to overlook the purpose for which ipadio was originally invented: to broadcast live from a phone.

I’ve just been reading a great post by Ellie Stonely on how she used ipadio to broadcast live from Cambridge to the “Net Tuesdays” meeting in Manchester…

A few weeks ago I got a note from Steven Flower, the NetSquared Local organizer in Manchester, asking if the group I help manage in Cambridge wanted to collaborate in real-time from 130 miles away. His email started: “Just a random thought, but we too have our Meetup scheduled in Manchester on the SAME DAY! Right now, we haven’t a speaker or anything, so here is my crazy idea”. The email went on to outline a way to stream content over the web to provide an event speaker in both cities simultaneously. I love crazy ideas and I knew it would add value to our efforts, so of course I said YES!

Now, I’m no techie, but Steven had been testing out a tool called Ipadio for streaming and sharing audio within his group. He suggested that we could upload the slides before the event and use Ipadio on a mobile phone to stream the audio live. We could also share ideas and feedback in real-time with virtual participants using the #virtualnet2 hashtag as a twitter backchannel.

His plan worked a charm!

Brilliant! It’s great to hear feedback from when ipadio has played a useful role in what you want to do.

Have you ever live streamed with ipadio? Why not tell us about it in the comments below?

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