Liveblog brings 9,000 to Liverpool Daily Post and Echo websites

A four-day liveblogging experiment by the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo attracted 9,000 users and 17,000 page impressions.

Using liveblogging service CoveritLive, the blog incorporated text, images and video updates from the Tall Ships Race 2008.

The Trinity titles pooled resources to operate the liveblog, which started at 10am on July 18 and finished at 12:30pm today.

A team of five volunteers answered questions from readers, ran live polls and uploaded content to the blog, which was sent in by reporters via text message and microblogging service Twitter. Audio of the event was submitted using podcast site Utterz.

Readers were encouraged to contribute to the blog by text, as were the event organisers, who used the platform to update visitors on traffic and crowd congestion.

"By the end of the event we had around a dozen videos uploaded, from our own reporters and from sourcing posts on YouTube; scores of photos, taken by our own photographers and by members of the Daily Post's Flickr group; and lots of comments, debate - even a poem. We were very pleased with its success,” said Steve Harrison, acting assistant editor (digital) for the Daily Post and Echo.

The papers have previously used liveblogging to cover a day in the newsroom, as well as a visit to Liverpool by the Queen in May.

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