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It’s been about six months (or maybe more!) since we first installed our new chat room feature with the KSL iCam. And it’s been a learning experience for all of us in the newsroom. I bet it’s been a learning experience for the listeners as well!
Here are a few things our chatters have taught me in recent months…
1) Chatting daily with someone, even someone you’ve never met, makes them officially part of your extended family.
2) If you work in front of a web cam long enough, you forget it’s there – until you do something goofy!
3) There are more people actually not working at work than you would imagine. How could they be? They’re all playing in our chatroom!
4) KSL reaches across the globe. We’ve had chatters from England, Brazil, Alaska, and just about everywhere else you can think of.
5) People have an amazing capacity to reach out to and care for people they’ve never officially “met.”
6) Grant and Amanda are much less shy about eating on camera than Scott and Maria. (But understandably so – they’re on the air so early there’s no way they’d eat breakfast before they came in.)
7) Apparently, chatting with us is a little addictive. There is no 12-step program. But as far as we know, we don’t cause cancer.
8) Forget what you think you know about Utahns as a collective group. We are actually pretty diverse, and the chat room population proves it!
9) Chatters love to taunt Scott and Maria with talk of dinner right before their shift ends.
10) Chatting does not have to be limited to the on-air topic. We’ve had conspiracy theories in the chat room, compared notes on restaurants, checked out photos of each other’s kids and pets… and once in a while, talked about the news of the day.
Come on in! It’s a lot of fun, and you never know who’s going to be on the other side of the screen, chatting with you.
