Lifestreaming: The New Future of Blogging? Erin Blaskie www.ErinBlaskie.com www.bsetc.ca
May 12, 2015
Lifestreaming: The New Future of Blogging?
Erin Blaskie
www.ErinBlaskie.com www.bsetc.ca
Lifestreaming: What is it?
• Lifestreaming is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media.
• Lifestreaming is the act of aggregating many streams, generally using a third party service that then shows the content in chronological order.
Lifestreaming: Why?
• People are feeling the “need” to utilize all of these different sites but there is no automation or system to it.
• Building a lifestream creates order in the midst of real life chaos.
Lifestreaming: Why?
• Provides readers with a snapshot of the blogger’s life providing a much more in-depth look into what they are doing, reading and listening to.
• Allows blogger to share things quickly, easily and effectively with readers.
Lifestream: Incoming Data
Incoming: What am I listening to?
Incoming:What am I reading?
Incoming:What am I browsing online?
Incoming:Where am I traveling?
Incoming:What am I shooting
via video?
Incoming:What am I taking pictures of?
The Mobile Generation
• Incoming information needs to also be portable, mobile and easily addable to your lifestream.
• In this next diagram, an iPhone is being used as the basis due to the sheer number of apps.
The Mobile Approach
Outgoing Information
• Once the information comes in to the blog, you need to syndicate it out to the various feeds / websites you belong to.
• This is known as notifying your tribes that you’ve done a new action (also known as enabling stalkers to keep tabs on you…)
Lifestream Style Plug-Ins for WP
• Lifestream - Pulls in data from many sources and produces a grid-like image of your updates.
• My TwitPic’s - Displays recently uploaded pictures to TwitPic.com.
• Sociable - Automatically adds links to favorite social bookmarking / networking sites.
• Tweetly Updater - Posts a notice to Twitter when you update your blog.
External Widgets Added to Sidebar
• Ustream video embed code.
• TripIt ‘upcoming trips’ embed code.
• Twitter widget.
• Blip.fm widget.
• Shelfari ‘currently reading’ embed code.
Anatomy of the Lifestream
Anatomy of the Lifestream
Anatomy of the Lifestream
Why Could This Be the Future of Blogging?
• We’re sharing so much information that we need systems / automation to save time.
• People are finding amazing things through the act of sharing - this allows that to happen in a one to many scenario.
Choices
• We all have a choice as to how much we share.
• We all can make choices about our open life experience.
• Choose something that fits for you and create your tribes in an authentic way.
Closing Ideas
• We need to come up with a balanced approach to this and ensure people know that they can turn the volume up or down to suit their life.
• By making people more transparent, do we open up a positive outlook on lives or do we open up negative possibilities?
Learn More & Questions
• www.LifeStreamInColor.com (Life Stream)
• www.BSETC.ca (Business)
• @ErinBlaskie (Twitter)