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Using Canva to create the Stream image for your Q&A live

We had been hearing wonderful things about Canva, and today we gave it a try to see how you can easily create an awesome image that will go together with your Dilmot live Q&A stream.

Just login into Canva with your account and select the Poster size or the Facebook post size. Both of them are pretty good because they are closer to the square size that fits well to the left of the send question form.

Select sizes that get close to the 1:1 ratio for your stream image

Next step is select the design you want, and select the background image you would like to put. You can choose among a huge archive with more than 1M images, or upload your own:

Select the Canva template you would like to base your stream image on

Finally put your text and download the image:

Customize the Canva template to put your own image

As you can see, Canva is like an on-line Photoshop to quickly create beautiful designs based on existing templates. So, the main decisions are already taken for you. It is cool, not only for Dilmot, but also to make images for your blog, Twitter, Facebook accounts or other social media tools. There are many preconfigured formats to speed up your work.

Hope you liked this pill. Enjoy Q&A’s with Dilmot. See ya!

Add a YouTube video inside a live Q&A

We are releasing a new feature today for Dilmot.

You asked for it: Is it possible to embed a video in an iframe inside an answer or comment in Dilmot?

Yes, you can just copy the iframe code, for example, in YouTube, like this:

Pick up the embed code from YouTube video > Share > Embed option

And paste it into the answer or comment in the panel of your Dilmot Q&A stream:

You can now embed a video inside an answer or comment within the Dilmot panel

This example for YouTube would equally apply to other providers such as Ustream or Livestream.

Any further questions? Please have a look at the manual here: http://blog.dilmot.com/instructions-manual-for-the-administrator-moderator-of-a-dilmot-qa-stream/

Get in touch with us if you need further help

Dilmot hack idea: how to send the same questionnaire to many people

There is a way of sending the same questions to many people. You can use Dilmot feature of importing a list of questions. And then you create a stream for each of the guests that you would like to respond to the questions. Invite them by simply sending them the secret token. And that’s it!

The imported questions will be shown for your confirmation beforehand

You could use it for:

– Job interviews
– Make a test
– See how different experts answer differently to the same questions

This is a sort of “hack” use of Dilmot, since it is not the main use of it, but we are considering to package it into some sort if solution if some people find it a good idea!

Allow questions and comments in a Google Hangout on Air video for all users

We all love Google Hangouts and Google Hangout on Air, and they can be broadcasted as a YouTube video stream. So it is really one of the backbone services of today web. Forget about other video streaming solutions because they are all extremely restrictive.

But if you have organised a Hangout inside Google+ you will have noticed that in order to comment or make questions the users need to have a Google+ account. How can you allow them to make questions if they don’t have a Google+ account? Well, here is the pain point where Dilmot can help you out.

With Dilmot you can manage a stream of questions and answers in real-time. It works like a chat but it is moderated, meaning that nothing will be published unless you (the “moderator”) allows it. This stream can be embedded in any website, so you can put in one place the video embed and below it you can put the Q&A / chat / comment feed that Dilmot will provide you with.

In the following image you can see how it worked for one of the Dilmot users. We would like to remark that opening an account in Dilmot is free. There is also a Pro account with premium features available if you would like to enjoy certain features such as making the stream password protected, reordering the questions, getting instant mail notification, etc.

Embed a Q&A session in a website, to support a Google Hangout on air session

Brent Schlenker talked about a Hangchat in this article: http://elearndev.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/hangchat-google-hangout-on-air-during.html

Source: If you would like to read about Google Hangouts, there is a lot published in this blog: http://blog.qstion.com/

Send someone the Proust Questionnaire

We are publishing the list of questions that form the Proust Questionnaire, so you can use it to send it to someone

But how?

It is very simple, you just need to import the list of questions that we have put in this file, which you can see here:

Proust: Your favorite virtue. Proust: Your favorite qualities in a man. Proust: Your favorite qualities in a woman. Proust: What you appreciate the most in your friends. Proust: Your main fault. Proust: Your favourite occupation. Proust: Your idea of happiness Proust: What would be my greatest misfortune? Proust: If not yourself, who would you be? Proust: Where would you like to live? Proust: Your favourite colour and flower. Proust: Your favorite prose authors. Proust: Your favorite poets. Proust: Your favorite heroes in fiction. Proust: Your favorite heroines in fiction. Proust: Your favorite painters and composers. Proust: Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann. Proust: Your heroes in real life. Proust: Your heroines in World history Proust: Your favorite names. Proust: What I hate the most. Proust: World history characters I hate the most. Proust: The military event I admire the most. Proust: The reform I admire the most. Proust: The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with. Proust: How I wish to die Proust: What is your present state of mind. Proust: For what fault have you most toleration? Proust: Your favorite motto.

Click here to download the file with the above questionnaire.

And follow the instructions in this post: How to import a lists of questions for a public Q&A

You can see what happenned when Vanity Fair sent the Proust Questionnaire to David Bowie http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/10/david-bowie-proust-questionnaire-vanity-fair/

The result could look like this:

Proust questionnaire layout by Dilmot

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