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January 16, 2007

The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners

Filed under: blogs, tools

Here is a list of ways blog publishers can chat with their visitors, and how visitors can chat amongst each other.
Also is asynchronous communication, ie. the different ways visitors can leave comments.

BLOG OWNERS CHATTING WITH VISITORS

Video
Wengo
Stickam
[ADDED 28/03/07: Youcams]
Wambo [ADDED 30/03/07]

Text Chat Box
Various…see my post Blog chat (this also includes visitors chatting with each other)

Create a chat room for your blog using meebo rooms, Tangler, Zpeech, even Google Groups or Facebook groups…meebo rooms also comes as a widget.

IM (same as text chatting but via your IM client)
plugoo
meebome
mabber [ADDED 28/02/07]
Wambo [ADDED 28/02/07]
livechat2im [ADDED 16/05/07]
Yackpack Walkie Talkie [ADDED 16/05/07]…either a/synchronous

VOIP
Jaxter [ADDED: 29/01/07]
Jangl - a widget where people can call you or SMS you.

VISITORS LEAVING COMMENTS

Text
The usual way via the comments form for posts, for the blog in general:
FormLogix - Send Comment Form, Question and Comment Form

Message Board
Texterize (send by SMS)
[ADDED 24/05/07: backwardblog]
…most of these may be listed in my Blog chat post.

Text Chat Box
See above…this is also a way to leave a comment

IM
See above

VOIP
Jaxter [ADDED: 29/01/07]

Email
Send you an email:
FormLogix (Contact us)
GoToMsg (widget)
There are a few from Google Widgets, not sure if they work:
Quick email…
Or you can use an email icon and have some mailto: code behind it.

Video
flikzor
hellodeo (not sure if visitors can leave a video comment)
flixn (not sure if visitors can leave a video comment)
bubbletwo [ADDED 17/01/07]
vidime [ADDED 18/01/07]
blipback [ADDED 15/10/07]
Commentt [ADDED 15/10/07]

Audio
Evoca
SnapVine
odeo
SupCast
SnapVine
MyChingo
Voice2Comment [ADDED: 27/01/07]
Jangl - a widget where people can call you or SMS you.
Also see YackPack Walkie talkie
Spinvox - ring a number, voice to text [ADDED: 2/06/07]
Speakageline - ring a number leave a voice message [ADDED: 2/06/07]

SMS
otxt
buddyPing
EQO
Texterize (also a Message Board)
Cingular Text Message
DirectCall Back (widget)
GoToMsg (widget)
Jangl - a widget where people can call you or SMS you.

[ADDED: MobaTalk : Multimedia blog comments]

Ratings
JS-Kit
Bumpbox
Authorati
Newsgator ratings
Star it
Spotback Rate Everything
FeedBlitz outbrain voting box
Blogarate
Click comments
Outbrain ratings widget [ADDED: 06/11/07]

Comments
JS-Kit
LineBuzz
ZoopIn
InstaComment
Click comments
SezWho [ADDED: 23/07/07]

Polls
JS-Kit, there are so many polls…

Contact Us
Contactify]

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1. Hey john - you might want to add bubbletwo to the video commenting category.

   Comment by Bubbletwo — January 16, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

2. The post “The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners” has been updated:

   http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/01/16/the-various-ways-visitors-can-communicate-with-blog-owners/

   Comment by Johnt — January 17, 2007 @ 8:22 am

3. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Voice2Comment - http://www.profy.com/2006/12/26/voice2comments-give-voice-to-your-opinion/

   Place a widget on your blog, visitors or the blog owner can leave audio messages and listen to other audio messages. You can also leave a message by dialing a number listed on the widget.
   Visitors can also leave private messages to the blog owner.

   Comment by Johnt — January 27, 2007 @ 8:09 am

4. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Jaxter -
   http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2006/12/20/jaxtr-beware-the-dark-side/
   http://jaxtr.blogspot.com/2007/03/blasting-your-voice-online.html

   A widget for your blog, webpage, startpage, etc…where someone can phone you (VOIP) or leave a message.

   The new VoiceBlast feature also allows the blog owner to phone in audio updates.

   Comment by Johnt — January 29, 2007 @ 1:20 am

5. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   FunkyCall -
   http://mashable.com/2007/01/29/funkycall-a-youtube-for-prank-calls/

   Can be used as a widget to leave a greeting on your blog

   Comment by Johnt — February 1, 2007 @ 5:35 am

6. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Yodio -
   http://beta.yodio.com/

   Similar to Evoca, and audio social network with mobile uploading…accompany your audio with photo’s and captions.

   Comment by Johnt — February 1, 2007 @ 6:35 am

7. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Mixpo -
   http://www.mixpo.com/

   Create a widget that displays media clips (include your own audio, video, photo’s, etc…)

   Comment by Johnt — February 1, 2007 @ 6:39 am

8. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Amberjack -
   http://amberjack.org

   Create a site tour widget for your blog

   Comment by Johnt — February 1, 2007 @ 6:41 am

9. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

   Mapwing -
   http://www.mapwing.com

   Create a virtual tour widget for yout blog

   Comment by Johnt — February 1, 2007 @ 6:43 am

10. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

    Leafletter -
    http://www.leafletter.com/

    Create a micro-website widget

    Comment by Johnt — February 10, 2007 @ 8:57 am

11. UPDATE: The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners:

    nowthen -
    http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/02/28/nowthen-similar-to-twitter-but-with-photos

    Blog visitors can text your nowthen user space from the web, you may also receive this on your phone

    Comment by Johnt — February 28, 2007 @ 4:13 am

12. Great post!

    I wanted to clarify one thing about jaxtr though: We are not limited to traditiona VoIP. Rather, both sides of the conversation can be on their regular phones, mobile or landline worldwide! Also, we have just added texting capability.

    Cheers,
    Touraj

    Comment by Touraj — March 15, 2007 @ 7:51 pm

13. Jangl - a widget where people can call you
    http://www.jangl.com/CorpWeb/Default.aspx

    Comment by Johnt — March 29, 2007 @ 10:12 am

14. BubbleGuru - pop-up video for your blog visitors

    Comment by Johnt — April 3, 2007 @ 6:30 am

15. WriteMaps - create a site map

    Comment by Johnt — April 10, 2007 @ 3:19 am

16. MySay
    http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/04/20/mysay-audio-micro-blogging/

    - add an audio greeting box on your blog sidebar

    Comment by Johnt — April 20, 2007 @ 9:41 am

17. Backwardblog - message board widget:
    http://www.backwardblog.com/

    Contactify - contact us form
    http://www.contactify.com/

    Linebuzz - inline comments
    http://linebuzz.com/

    Comments/ratings:
    http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/05/18/roundup-contactify-js-kit-turtilla-voxlite-twitterbox/

    Comment by Johnt — May 23, 2007 @ 7:59 am

18. Hi!

    Please include JS-Kit:

    Comments
    http://js-kit.com/comments

    Polls
    http://js-kit.com/polls

    Ratings
    http://js-kit.com/ratings

    The Ratings widget comes with a Top Rated badge! This shows the top rated objects across the site.

    Thank You!

    Khris
    www.js-kit.com

    Comment by Khris — May 23, 2007 @ 4:30 pm

19. Demofuse - website tours
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/01/demofuse-embedded-website-tours/

    Comment by Johnt — June 5, 2007 @ 7:46 am

20. Annotate a blog post with Fleck:
    http://fleck.com/widget.php

    Review a blog post with ReviewBasic:
    http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/05/25/reviewbasics-document-review

    Comment by Johnt — June 23, 2007 @ 3:16 pm

21. Taskee - visitors can leave comments on a blog, refering to the URL they are commenting on

    Comment by Johnt — July 3, 2007 @ 2:01 am

22. Voki
    http://www.voki.com/

    - animated avatar that will greet your blog visitors

    Comment by Johnt — July 5, 2007 @ 12:45 pm

23. Diigo Webslides - a site tour of your blog:
    http://slides.diigo.com/

    Comment by Johnt — September 19, 2007 @ 8:00 am

24. Flockpod - a forum for your blog
    http://www.flockpod.com/

    Comment by Johnt — September 19, 2007 @ 8:02 am

25. Pindax - message board for your blog
    http://www.pindax.com/

    Comment by Johnt — September 19, 2007 @ 8:13 am

26. Crowdsound
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/19/crowdsound-makes-suggestions-a-popularity-contest/

    Beam
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/207126902/beam_files_to_your_mobile_for_free.php

    Vistazoo
    http://www.vistazoo.com/

    Firefly
    http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9946328-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

    FeVote
    http://www.fevote.com/

    Pibb widget
    http://mashable.com/2007/08/10/pibb-widget/

    Messagedance
    http://mashable.com/2007/12/10/messagedance/

    Skribit
    http://skribit.com/

    Shoutlet
    http://www.shoutlet.com/

    Tangler
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/237112541/tangler_embedding_feature_now.php

    Widgetbox
    http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/shoutbox
    http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/web-messages

    Bumpzee
    http://www.bumpzee.com/

    Suggestion Box
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/suggestionbox-a-feedback-system-that-doesnt-feel-pointless/

    Comment by John Tropea — June 6, 2009 @ 12:50 am

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