Using live conference coverage tools to extend face to face events to an online audience is helping organisations to reach new audiences and spark international conversations.

Live blogging, Twitter and streaming audio are the tools of my trade in helping organisations to leverage their investments in face to face conference coverage.

As part of the organising committee for eDayz – the top South Australian VET event – I wanted to take the live blogging and fast turn-around audio we achieved in 2008 to the next level.  So for eDayz 2009, I set up CoveritLive live blogging (for those without Twitter accounts and because of its ability to feed in tagged tweets, a Tweet chat room to house the tagged Tweets and a live audio stream – backed up with the ability to do on-site  fast turn-arounds of any audio streams with technical issues and to serve as an archive of presentations for future consumption.

The audio recordings are available here: http://edayz.org/program/audio-recordings

Here is the Cover it Live widget from the 2-day event:

Thanks to Allison Miller- aka theother66 on Flickr – for making her photo “KerryJ’s eDayz mixing desk” available under a Creative Commons License.