At last night’s Edmonton International Fringe Festival VIP party, the fusedlogic team was streaming a live show which generated over 3 hours of video content.  Those who tuned in noticed that we had some wonderfully talented lady co-anchors heading up the show.  My thanks to Leila, Beth and Eva who did an absolutely terrific job keeping everyone entertained and engaged.

Having had a quick look at the analytics and traffic from the last couple of days for this site, things are going really well and traffic is absolutely increasing, showyouourblog.com showed a 300% increase yesterday from the previous day and we expect that to continue to climb as the word gets out about this communal social media presence.

Here are the countries who tuned in to last night’s live webcast and just so we don’t create an international incident, these are in no particular order, with the exception of Canada being the lead source of traffic:

• Canada
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Belgium
• Chile
• Netherlands
• Switzerland
• Mexico

For those of you who missed the big shooowww, notable interviews included Edmonton Riverview Liberal MLA Kevin Taft, Global Edmonton’s Fringe reviewer Judy Unwin, Bob Westbury, Head of the Telus Community Investment Fund here in Edmonton.  We also managed to get a few words from Edmonton Centre MP Laurie Hawn, City of Edmonton Councilor and avid social media user Don Iveson.  Local political policy advisor Ken Chapman of Cambridge Strategies and Edmonton Sun’s entertainment columnist Colin McLean dropped by to say hello as well.

@ThomasCulture Artistic Director for Fringe 2009

The Fringe folks were also very well represented by Executive Director Julian Mayne and Past Chair Sharon Budnarchuk of Audrey’s Books fame and Fringe Program Director Thomas Scott.  I also loved the fact that we were able to include some artists, performers, writers, directors into the mix as well.  Interestingly, as I write this Evan Adnams, fusedlogic’s Director of Production and Design is putting together the various interviews that will be posted up on the showyouours Youtube channel, in fact, it’s happening right now.  For many of the folks we talked to last night this was their first live video streaming experience and from the comments, everyone had a lot of fun.

Here is a short list of sites that you’ll want to watch and hopefully participate in or contribute to:

The Fringe site for international visitors www.showyouours.com

The official Edmonton International Fringe Festival flickr photo-sharing group.

The ShowYouOurs Youtube Channel

What’s also great to see are the interesting posts from all walks of Fringe life, not only from here in Edmonton but soon we hope from around the world.  Comparisons of festival experiences here in Edmonton and festivals elsewhere such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe would be cool indeed.

Tags: Edinburgh, Edmonton, Fringe Festival, fusedlogic, International, showyouours, social media, Streaming video

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