What are Tickaroo Live Blog Content Streams? Tickaroo Live Blog Content Streams allow content from RSS feeds or other existing live blogs to be automatically integrated into your live blogs. Where can I find the Content Streams feature? The Content Streams feature is part of the Professional package but can also be added individually to your Tickaroo package. If you have already booked our Content Streams, you will find the feature in the Live Blog Editor, located above the live blog preview on the right. What functionalities do Content Streams offer? Syndicating RSS Feeds Add an RSS feed to automatically or manually include its content in your live blog. Example: Police news in a breaking news ticker. Learn more here: Content Streams: RSS Feed Syndication Syndicating Live Blogs Use a Content Stream to integrate another live blog’s content from your organization into your own. Choose whether to syndicate reporters, chapters, highlights, pinned posts, or specific posts with assigned tags from the other live blog. Example: A national news ticker is automatically filled with content from various regional blogs. Learn more here: Content Streams: Live Blog Syndication Can Content Streams be edited? You can edit your Content Streams at any time. For example, you can activate or deactivate automatic syndication afterwards. Decide whether posts should automatically flow into your live blog or if you prefer to publish them manually and edit them in advance if necessary.

You can enhance your live blog with Content Streams to include the content of one or more RSS feeds.  For example, create a police and emergency blog. Use the Content Stream feature to add an RSS feed to it. The RSS feed's content can be automatically integrated into your live blog, or you can manually select the desired content. How do I add an RSS feed to my live blog using Content Streams? Open the Content Stream above the live blog preview and select "+ Create Content Stream." Give the new Content Stream a title and enter the RSS feed URL. The new Content Stream will then appear next to the live blog preview. Can RSS feed content be automatically integrated into the live blog? Yes. Select the syndication icon to have the RSS feed's content automatically flow into your live blog. Which RSS feed content will be included in my live blog? When adding a RSS Feed you can choose whether only the most recent content is included in your live blog or if older content from the RSS feed should also be transferred. Info: You don't see the Content Stream icon? This feature might not yet be included in your package. If you'd like to learn more about Content Streams or add this feature to your package, please contact your account manager or reach out to us at [email protected].

You can enhance your live blog using Content Streams to include the content of one or more of your live blogs. For example, create a nationwide election ticker. Use the Content Stream feature to add a live blog from your organization, such as regional tickers (source live blogs). Content from the selected live blog can be automatically integrated into your nationwide live blog, or you can manually select the desired content. How do I enhance a live blog with content from a source live blog? Open the Content Stream section above the live blog preview and select "+ Create Content Stream" and "Live Blog." Give the new Content Stream a title and choose the desired live blog whose content you want to integrate into your new live blog. You can also choose to include reporters, highlights or pinned posts, chapters, and tags from the source live blog in the new live blog. The new Content Stream will then appear next to the live blog preview. Can content from the source live blog be automatically integrated into the live blog? Yes. Select the syndication icon to have the content from the source live blog automatically flow into your live blog. Which content from my source live blog will be included in my live blog? You can choose whether only the most recent content is included in your live blog or if older content from the source live blog should also be transferred. Can individual posts from my source live blog be imported into my new live blog using tags? Yes. If posts in your source live blog are tagged, you can select the desired tags when creating a Live Blog Content Stream. Only the posts with the specified tags will be imported into your new live blog. Learn more here: Content Stream: Tag Syndication Info: You don't see the Content Stream icon? This feature might not yet be included in your package. If you'd like to learn more about Content Streams or add this feature to your package, please contact your account manager or reach out to us at [email protected].

In the article Content Stream: Liveblog, we explain how to use a content stream to integrate content from one live blog into another, either fully automated or manually. Using the Tag Filter, you can also selectively transfer individual posts from one live blog to another. What is the Tag Filter, and how does it work? The Tag Filter allows you to assign one or more tags to your live blog posts. These tags can then be selected by readers on your website to filter the live blog for content relevant to them. For more details on the Tag Filter, check out: Assigning Tags to Posts How do you activate Tag Syndication? Create a new live blog content stream as explained in Content Stream: Liveblog. Select the source live blog from which you want to import content. It’s important that the posts in the source live blog are tagged. Then activate the option Syndicate Tags and choose the desired tags from the dropdown menu.   Can posts with the selected tags be automatically imported from the source live blog into the new live blog? Yes. Once you’ve chosen your desired tags while setting up the content stream, you can activate syndication. All posts in the source live blog with the selected tags will then automatically appear in your new live blog. What’s a practical use case? Example: Federal Election Create separate live blogs (source live blogs) for each electoral district in your region, filled with individual content. Additionally, create tags like Northern District, Southern District, Street Survey, and Interim Results, and assign them to your posts. Then create an overarching, regional live blog. Using the Content Stream Tag Syndication, you can automatically integrate posts from the source live blogs into your regional live blog based on their tags.