Live iPad Giveaway
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 9:07AM Well, I promised I'd give away an iPad today, so I'd better set something up.
Update: The draw if for ScreenCastsOnline members only. Details of how to become a member can be found here. More information on the T&Cs for the draw and the entry form can be found here.
However, my immaculate planning (!) has resulted in a clash with the proposed time and the England match! So rather than 9pm, I'll push it back to 10 pm tonight.
Rather than do a 30 minute live show like last time, I thought I'd keep it short, and rather than replace the normal show, I'd do it as a supplement to the usual show.
So this week, there's a normal free show going out, which I'm just in the process of publishing. Once I've done that, I'll need to sort out the technology for the live stream.
Last time I used Ustream, (which is a free service) and had mixed results. I had people who were able to watch the stream fine, and others who had real problems.
This time round, I'm going to try a paid service - BitGravity.
With me being away at WWDC, and spending most of this week preparing the normal show, I haven't really had much time to focus on getting things sorted out. In fact, the BitGravity account was only setup yesterday, and I only got the stream enabled at 10pm last night. So not much time to play considering it should take me the best part of the next couple of hours publishing the normal show.
So for this "test" live show, I'm shooting for a smallish audience, to test out the waters. That's why I've not made too much of a fuss about publicising the live show.
In the event of technical problems (of my own making) or running out of time, the fallback position is I'll do the draw offline and publish it via the blog.
So, if all goes to plan, I'm hoping to do the live draw at 10pm UK time.
I'll publish the link to see the show later on today via the blog and Twitter.
Reader Comments (3)
Are all existing members entered automatically?
So how does one get ones name into the draw ? :) Just tune into the live stream tonight?
Only members are eligible and you need to fill in an entry form at http://screencastsonline.com/ipadprizedraw