Live Online Interviews Hosted Service Now Available

Forum One now offers its Live Online Interviews tool as a hosted service for clients looking to add user interaction to their website. Live Online Interviews is a tool for scheduling, conducting, and archiving real-time, online interviews between web users and prominent respondents. It increases user engagement while highlighting celebrities, experts, and staff without requiring a large organizational commitment.

Quick to set-up and easy to manage, Live Online Interviews offers online interaction without the chaos of a chat room or the lethargy of a message board. "We have conducted over a dozen Live Online Interviews, which we’ve branded ‘Speak Out’ live discussions (http://discuss.worldbank.org), and found that they engage users, create interesting new materials, and are contained enough that they don't scare away interviewees. They have been a great way to increase interactivity on the World Bank website," says Jeff McCoy, Speak Out Coordinator for the World Bank.

This hosted service makes a simple, powerful addition to any web site. Questions are submitted by users, moderated by client staff, answered by respondents, and displayed online, all via an easy-to-understand administrative interface. New interviews are easy to schedule and past interviews are automatically archived. Staff at Forum One will assure that a specific Live Online Interview implementation supports client branding, and will also take care of hosting, data management, and archiving. Fees are affordable for most groups and include a setup cost and a fixed monthly operations charge.

Forum One Communications is an online strategy and development firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. Forum One partners with influential organizations, providing business strategy, online communications, user experience, and technology expertise, to respond to some of the world's most pressing problems.