This weekend we went through the exhilarating experience of being in the living rooms of people in the morning and simultaneously tweeting with them.
Below is the video and some pictures of the social media discussion that took place on January 30th, 2010 live on FutureTV and was aired on the local channel in Lebanon as well as on the FutureTV international channel via satellite. The panel was composed of @samerkaram @mayazankoul and myself (@aymanitani) in a really comfortable and friendly environment.
We were also live tweeting during the live tv broadcast to connect with the folks on twitter as well as get feedback on how they want the discussion to move forward. For me that was the most fun as all the senses were fully engaged: pressure of live coverage, formulating answers on-the-fly that are concise and targeted to the audience of the morning show, listening to panel members, interacting with presenter, and listening to the twitter feed to incorporate feedback and continue to tweet even though we are on live tv.
Thanks go out to Samer Karam (@samerkaram) and Maya Zankoul (@mayazankoul) for being great people to share a panel with, to Amer Tabsh (@arzleb) for setting the whole thing up and making sure everything goes smoothly in a live TV broadcast, and to all the Twitter folks who woke up early on a Saturday morning to participate in #ftvsocial.
welcoming us as we walk onto studio setup
the seating area where the live session took place
poster of the class that was mentioned during the interview that i will be giving Spring 2010
multiple cams facing you and preview TV to see what is being broadcast
the host amer tabsh (@arzleb)
traditional crt tvs scattered in all sorts of rooms around the studio
samer karam explaining the iPad to the futuretv staff
Other items discussed during the session:
Maya’s Amalgam: www.mayazankoul.com
CookieMan: www.cooki3man.com
Funraising: www.funraising.info
This post is tagged Amer Tabsh, ftvsocial, futuretv, live, Maya Zankoul, Samer Karam, twitter
