My CoverItLive console during a recent live blog.
For me, CoverItLive is like the ultimate social reporter’s notebook – my observations and takeaways from an event, mashed up with those of the crowd. But it’s pretty robust software, and there are a lot of different ways to use it well.
These 12 tips – ordered roughly by when in the liveblogging process they apply – embody how I’ve come to think about using CoverItLive. I hope they give you a helpful starting point. Use the software often, and you’ll develop your own approach.