An Interactive Liveblogging Platform

A G-Snap! event is embeddedable into any website providing your readers with live updates, moderated community commentary, photos, tweets and more - all in a single location. Combined with powerful moderation tools, an event can be just as relevant and "produced" as any article published online. A G-Snap! event also provide enterprise customers with new monetization opportunities to increase site revenues as event have been proven to dramatically increase viewer engagement.

From the G-Snap! homepage, simply click "Create an event". Or, you can create one now...right here! Create an event now!

Moderating user comments is core to a good event with an audience greater than roughly 30+ commenters. As you'll notice, when you create your event, there's a column for pending comments from which you can manage both comments and users. Optionally, you can turn moderation off or even disable viewer comments.

Tip: you can also "trust" a user allowing all their comments (past and future) to be auto-approved. "Trusting" someone is a great feature to use during a Q&A sessions where you can assign questions to your trusted viewers.

Unique to G-Snap! is a Q&A feature for your live events. The Q&A feature allows users to ask questions, you to answer them, and for them to appear as a single comment. Simply turn on Q&A mode in the event settings module and start taking questions. This is also a great feature while you're at a conference live blogging a panel session!

Tip: did you know you can assign questions to your trusted viewers for them to answer questions. This is useful if you're hosting a celebrity who might not be familiar with the G-Snap! console. Simply invite them to join, set them as a trusted user, assign the question, and they'll have the option to reply to questions from their view!

Check out our Q&A demo video on Youtube. Watch now.

Yes, while you're creating your event, you'll notice that there's a neat option for "Event Start: at a specific date/time". Simply tell us the date and the time and your event won't go "live" until then. You can of course still view it and add comments but going "live" won't happen until your start time passes.

Yes, G-Snap! from your phone is just as easy as from your desktop. Go to http://gsnap.com on your mobile phone to get started. You can also attend any event you wish. Read the mobile section below for more information.

No, our goal is to make our system one that is very easy for your viewers to interact with. There are a few things that you do need an account for including following other users, adding your photo, or creating an event.

You can choose to put your event into standby if you'd like. This is a great tool it use if it's a multi-day event. Standby mode is also triggered after 30 minutes of inactivity in your event.

Media can be added by simply clicking on the media upload icon that's just beneath the text entry box on your event's console. Alternatively, you can copy/paste a URL from Flickr, Twitpic, yfrog, or YouTube and G-Snap will automatically show a preview in the live stream.

Note: see below for instructions on how to add media from your mobile phone.

It's easy! Simply create the event as you usually would and select the embed button on the bottom of the G-Snap! console. From there, just copy and paste the code into your website! Don't forget, you can also change the height/width of the event to perfectly fit into your site.

Yes. In fact, we encourage it! G-Snap! events are permanently archived on G-Snap! meaning they can stay live on your site as long as you'd like. You never know, someone might want to come back and re-live your event (think more eyeballs viewing your pages).

G-Snap! Premium Users have the ability to customize the embeddable widget and save up to 10 themes. If you are interested in upgrading, please contact us for pricing.

No extra capacity or bandwidth is needed to run an event on your site. We take the load off your shoulders so you can focus on having a great event.

Option 1: If moderation is turned off, as the moderator you can hide individual comments as they come in (or you ban specific users). You can always change your mind and set moderation to "on".

Option 2: set moderation to "on" when you create your event or via the event settings module. if moderation in on, all viewer comments go into a "pending approval" list. once here, you can approve a comment or promote a viewer to be a "trusted user". the latter auto-approves all future messages. of course, you can also easily ban someone. these options are available to you when you hover over their image, in the pending comment list, or via event settings.

Option 3: set moderation to "comments not allowed" when you create your event or via the event settings module. We don't recommend this setting but it is available as an option to you.

Yes, it's simple to add another moderator. Simply click on the "Additional Settings" link while you're live blogging your event and then add your fellow moderator's G-Snap! username to the list. Note, this user must have a G-Snap! account.

If for some reason a fellow moderator is out of line, you can easily remove him or her from the event by the same method you used to add them. Click on the "Additional Settings" link in the "Event Settings" module and remove the moderator in question.

The main functions of the clock are Resume and Play. Simply select to play button to get the clock moving. If you need to pause the clock, simply select the pause button. You can also change the time period by selecting the drop down (you can only do this when the clock is not moving).

Tip: it's a good idea to pause the clock when there's a break in the action (to reflect the actual game clock). If for some reason you have to edit the clock, you can drag the button or put your mouse over the time and enter it in directly.

Use the status! It is a great way to let people know about the latest event. For example, use the status to show the latest score or tell people what's coming up next.

Well, if you're using G-Snap! from your desktop, simply click the "Upload Media" link near the big yellow box where you put in comments. From there, select the file, add a caption, and voila, you're done!

Tip: Did you know you can also upload media via your mobile device? Look below in the mobile section for more information on this nifty little feature.

While on the console, click the "over" radio button. You will be prompted prior to your event ending as it's not posibile to resume an event once over. When the event is over, comments of any kind are no longer allowed.

Tip: you can also pause your event by putting your event into Standby.

If you feel the need to "express" yourself in a colorful manner (or for that matter give your viewers the same ability), you can turn off the inappropriate word filter. Please use this with caution as you might have a younger crowd in the audience!

Yes, live statistics are available for moderators. We currently provide the following statistics:

1. Total Unique Viewers
2. Current Viewers
3. Largest Audience (this reports on the largest number of users in your event at any given point)
4. Total Number of Messages

To update your notification emails, simply click on "edit profile" from your profile page and select the notifications tab. Once here, you can customize to your heart's content.

In any given event, you can have up to twenty live and/or draft polls. Premium users can have up to 50.