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Using Elastic Chat to Engage Your Audience in Big Way

People typically access chat rooms on small laptop computer screens and monitors, but RumbleTalk elastic chat enables users to expand the chat window up to any size.

You may be wondering, why is this helpful?

Well, when only one user is logged into a chat from their laptop, the size of the window may not be of great concern. Typically an individual is sitting close enough to the chat that it can be easily read. However, having the ability to make the chat window larger can better facilitate conversation among a larger group of people.

There are many reasons why your business, organization, or group may want to have access to elastic chat rooms. Some reasons may include:

  1. Online group gaming sessions
  2. Business meetings and professional events
  3. Educational settings

Let’s look out why elastic chat can be so helpful in the scenarios listed above.

Online Group Gaming Sessions

Video gaming culture has never been more popular. While gamers may still enjoy playing solo games, more and more players are becoming interested in MMO games, or massive multiplayer online games.

MMO games are extremely interactive in nature. Rather than one player moving through a game by themselves and only interacting with computer-generated characters, players can interact with avatars created by actual individuals  who are logged into the game at the same time. These players may be completely anonymous or players may choose to play with their real life friends. There are a number of ways that players can communicate to each other during gameplay. Some gaming consoles allow for players to have headsets, enabling them to speak to their friends and other players.

Another option would be using an elastic chat. For someone who is playing a game from their computer or laptop, they could login to their RumbleTalk account to chat with other players. The elastic chat capability would allow players to minimize or maximize the chat window at their convenience.

Some players may have dual monitors, allowing them to play the game on one monitor and drag their chat window to the other monitor. With elastic chat, the chat window could easily fill up the entire monitor screen, making is simple for players to quickly glance over to see if anything interesting is happening in the conversation or if any new strategies are being developed.

Business Meetings and Professional Events

Many of us may have attended a conference or business meeting that was supposed to be interactive. The speaker would ask an open-ended question with hopes of receiving a lot of feedback from the audience or their co-workers. However, more often than not, people seem to be hesitant to offer their perspective or ask any questions.

Whether this lack of feedback is due to anxiety, an unwillingness to engage, or the fear of looking foolish in front of a crowd, the speaker is often left waiting in awkward silence.

Incorporating an elastic chat into one of these such meetings could easily solve this problem. Participants and attendees in meetings and conferences could all log on to the same RumbleTalk chat room. The speaker or chair person of the meeting could also log on to the chat, maximize the chat room window using the elastic chat feature, and project it onto a large screen in the front of the room. Attendees could then offer their feedback or answer audience-directed questions,  with the option of remaining anonymous. This option allows people who  don’t like speaking in front of others the ability to actively participate in the meeting.

Educational Settings

Many classrooms, educational groups, and collegiate clubs actively encourage participation from their members and students.

For example, a professor teaching a course on business ethics may present students with a hypothetical scenario. They may then ask students for feedback as to what the ethical course of action would be in that scenario. If the professor and students  logged into the chat room at the same time, students could submit their responses. They could respond to other students’ suggestions and share their perspectives. With elastic chat, the chat window size could be increased so that the entire classroom could see it and participate.

Educational groups and clubs may also benefit from elastic chat. While they may use elastic chat in the way described above to  facilitate discussion, they could also be more creative.

Many clubs and groups plan events for their members.  With an elastic chat room, a club would set up a chat for its members specifically. They could play icebreaker games within the chat as a fun and low-pressure way for members to get to know each other.

There are many ways elastic chat can be utilized for the benefit of your group, friend circle, or company. RumbleTalk offers the perfect chat room solution, offering a number of impressive features and benefits in addition to elastic chat.

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Chatting on the Big Screen

Looking beyond the big screen for a moment, we’re all familiar with the common and often ubiquitous ways that chat and messaging services are used today. From technical support from our ISP and sales pitches from car dealers to booking assistance from travel agents, more and more businesses and industries are making use of this service daily.

So let’s innovate.

Screen, Screen, Screen

South by Southwest is a ten-day conference/music festival/game expo that lets professionals and consumers see what’s coming soon in entertainment, technology, and more. Over seventy thousand people attend its keynote speeches and panels each year.

The Consumer Electronics Show focuses on the edges of science and technology. With keynote speakers covering topics from healthcare technology to protecting privacy, over one hundred and twenty thousand people attended the conference in 2017. It generated over one hundred million online interactions.

Concerts, music festivals, TED conferences, and political rallies all draw thousands of people to one place, some for days at a time. They demonstrate or discuss, educate or entertain. But what do they all have in common?

They all have a big screen! Truly massive, larger-than-you-may-realize screens help the crowd see who’s speaking or performing. Often times they serve other functions too. Some events attempt to make use of social media as a way to communicate with the crowd and display the messages. But it’s not always effective.

Failures to Communicate

For example, many social media platforms have their own methods of interacting directly with accounts or events. This can cause confusion to those present. There are also delays due to various technical reasons that can prevent time-sensitive questions or messages from reaching the screen in time.

Many conferences now provide various methods of virtual attendance. It allows a person or persons to view the information live from wherever is convenient. Again, media platforms are utilized at times to try and let those virtual attendees participate in events as though physically present. But, again, the method can fall short.

These platforms are open and widely-used. But if they’re ineffective, what’s an alternative? Instead of something broad, think of an enclosed, contained system specific to that event, speaker, or performer. It would need to be a specific type of system, though, to meet the most needs and offer the best options. What do we mean?

Establishing an Uplink

The ideal solution would counter the problems we’ve identified. It would need to be closed so that it could be quick, simple to prevent confusion, and virtual so that it could be accessed remotely. Simple enough on the surface. A few ideas likely spring to mind right away.

  • Nearly every venue has a local network, often wireless. Utilizing it could allow for a closed, responsive system. It would prevent easy remote access, though.
  • Likewise, there are web-based teleconference services that exist. Those usually cost quite a bit of money, suffer lags, and also prevent easy access to local users.
  • An app seems the most obvious solution. But some people are reluctant to download yet another app, and may have storage space to consider if they want to take pictures. Carrier and equipment varieties may impact performance, as well.

big screen chat room example

Traditional solutions won’t work. Quick solutions won’t work. This is a major opportunity event organizers don’t want to overlook. What other options are there?

How RumbleTalk Helps—Chatting on the Big Screen

The Internet. At the very base of all these solutions is the same vital component that makes them function. For over three decades, we’ve accessed that component in one particular way above all others. For most of us, the earliest we remember is Netscape Navigator. Now the vast majority use Chrome.

A browser-based solution would provide excellent versatility. It’s open because it lives on the Internet, so it can be accessed anywhere. It responds via direct access, which limits lag time significantly. Browsers are included on phones, so there’s no extra download. But can a browser work on a big screen, computer, and phone?

RumbleTalk can. Because RumbleTalk is built using HTML5, you can resize it to fit any screen with no loss of quality. That means it looks just as good on that giant screen as it does on your computer or phone, or even your own television.

Chat is becoming ubiquitous as a service, but there are many paths of innovation left. Mass communication at crowded events is just one potential avenue we’re looking forward to walking.

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