Live chat for your blog? Zopim does that.

10/9/2013

Last week I was reading tweets. Jon Smith, @theipodteacher, from the Canton, Ohio area, sent out a tweet asking for someone to test the new chat feature on his blog--he uses weebly. The feature is a live help chat, called ZOPIM. As you can see by the images, it allowed a live chat to happen on his website. I can think of ways I could you use with my students and plan to give it a shot in the next few weeks. I will update how it goes.

If any of you give it a try, let us know how it works.

P.S. check out his website and his student created ebooks.

12 Comments

John DePiore

10/22/2013 09:42:03 am

What a great idea his live webchat is. Once he has engaged his students and they are coinsistently using his website as a resource and just becasue they are interested in learning more of what he has to offer, they will gravitate toward using the live chat since it is so convenient.

Allowing his students to create and post e-books on his website has to improve their self-esteem and over time help them become intrinsically motivated to show their skills and creativity by writing more literary pieces and making achievements in other academic areas as well.

Garth

10/22/2013 10:50:17 am

John you can put this software on your blog. Give it a shot.

Mark Soeder link

10/31/2013 04:41:42 am

Love this idea. We've been looking for ways to improve student feedback and added this interactive chat feature to our class help desk page to immediately connect with students who have questions. Thanks for sharing!

Mark

10/31/2013 09:14:27 am

How are things going? I hope all is well up north. Any grants this year? Keep in touch. Go Flyers!

Garth

10/31/2013 09:15:28 am

That was from me Mark. Put your name where I should have put mine:)

Abbey Jones

10/31/2013 10:47:53 am

This would be great- assuming it works as imagined! Hope to give it a try soon! I also love using e-books as IPAs for assessment!

Alex

11/28/2013 05:19:08 pm

You should put this live chat feature on header of website so that your website visitors can access chat option directly to connect with you. Why I suggest the place of chat feature on website is that I was receiving very less chat request from website visitors when it was placed on inner page (Contact us). But when I moved it on home page, I receive nice feedback from visitors. I am using Live2Support live chat. I can say it a budget chat software.

Briana Flanagan

12/6/2013 05:17:31 am

This is a great way for people to comment about your blog without making it public! For instance if someone wants to relate to your blog through a personal experience that they don't feel comfortable sharing with the world. This is a good feature. ps: I love e-books since they are usually less expensive and can always be with you through your technology!

David Rudick

4/28/2014 05:37:19 am

I realize this is an older post, but I never saw an update on this application. What was the overall critique?

Nikki Wise

5/7/2014 10:52:04 am

This is so cool! What an easy way to communicate with students in and out of school.

Zoey Richardson

5/25/2014 02:43:19 pm

Thanks for sharing.. Talking about live chat, I accidentally came across inside, and after looking through their site http://www.inside.tm/, it morphs a business website into a virtual storefront so business personnel can see and help their site visitors in real-time using chat.

William Dixon link

4/4/2023 10:42:51 am

As you can see by the images, it allowed a live chat to happen on his website. Thank you for making this such an awesome post!

Live chat for your blog? Zopim does that.

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