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A WordPress plugin to make live Q&A’s with Dilmot


We are happy to announce that our plugin for WordPress in ready for launch. We are looking for beta testers. If you would like to participate please send us a note using the form in this link: https://www.dilmot.com/contact

Dilmot is launching a new plugin for WordPress

Dilmot is launching a new plugin for WordPress

With this plugin, you will be able to publish live chat Q&A’s inside WordPress blogs. In order to start using it, you need to have an account in Dilmot. Getting a Dilmot account is free. In your WordPress installation, you need to install the plugin called Dilmot. In this plugin you will get an API secret key that will be requested in your Dilmot account settings page. This is how both websites (your WordPress site and the Dilmot one) will be synched.

We will also release a WordPress theme that will help you to create a custom Q&A portal website with WordPress. It will be based in the bootstrap css framework, so you can easily adapt it to your desired look&feel.

**** UPDATE 16 FEBRUARY 2015 ****

The plugin is ready to be downloaded and used with your WordPress powered site. This is the plugin page address:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/dilmot-live-qa-chats/

In the following screenshot you can see the setting page of the plugin:

WordPress plugin to make live Q&A chats with Dilmot

WordPress plugin to make live Q&A chats with Dilmot

Fireside chats in Internet


The interesting story of fireside chats and how you can make one today

Exposing a politician to the questions of the general public is not something that new. President Roosevelt, starting in 1933, initiated a series of radio talks where the questions were directly made by the listeners.

Roosevelt addressing the nation in the radio firechat

Roosevelt addressing the nation in the radio firechat

Nowadays, something similar has been done by President Obama with his #askObama hashtag in Twitter, that is still being used today. So, even if today the digital media make it so easy to have a direct contact with the public personalities, it is quite curious to see that this trend was initiated more than 80 years ago.

Sources:

Terminología fireside chat, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fireside+chat an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.

historia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats