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1. The Ultimate Guide For The Blab.IM DropIn Feature
Editors. Bill Slaise and BeautyBubble
Videographers. Bill Slaise, Alfredo Tigolo
Contributors. Josh Lankford, Beauty Bubble, QTheBrand, Moonshadow, Laura, Beth,
Leland Best, William Slaise, TheRealDinoWells, Pamela S. Gomez, Alfredo Tigolo,
Ileane Smith, JS GIlbert, Bruce Garber, ​Bruce Himmelblau​, Bob King, Bruce S. Turner,
& the list goes on and continues to grow.
Why Write This Guide​.
The Ultimate Guide For The Blab.IM DropIn Feature was developed over twenty­two
days in March 2016 and costs $1USD.
Our mission and intention is to keep the guide as a living document. We understand
users are anxious to have a ​completed ​guide of some sort in front of them while
exploring this newest feature on blab and several users have published their own
versions whom are also contributors to this Guide.
Who Is The Guide For​.
This guide is written for those who desire to take their live stream outreach and
creative skills to the next level. People who look upon learning how best to use
their voice in today’s world of marketing, exploration, and the sharing of stories as
important.
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3. March 4​th​
2016 during a Friday eve on Blab we were
delivered a feature. Simply called DropIn.
Josh Lankford, an engineer of team Blab turned on the
DropIn in an event we were hosting. The instruction from
team Blab was simple. We got a picture and some words
about spicing up your blab.
Immediately a crew of us spent a few hours running through
sites, formats and best use production steps. All using
DropIn. This series of events, which would truly stretch our
creativity to maximum levels, even so for today.
In fact, growing and nurturing good ideas, then manifesting
them quickly ​is​ the Blab way and our best advice while
reading “The Ultimate Guide To The blab.im DropIn” is to get
involved as a beta tester.
In this edition of the Guide we use social channels that are
well known and where marked, products featured in popular
growing sites such as Product Hunt, Launch Ticker and
iTrendTV.
“DropIn” Basics
Single Quad Square and Widescreen
Note : On March 15​th​
through the 16​th​
high definition video
widescreen aspect ratio, commonly known as 16:9, DropIn
was given to all users.

5. NOW LET’S GET YOU STARTED.
1. Pick a YOUTUBE video such as a crackling fire, here is
an example you can use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=­n6w_DKc3xM​ OR
2. A view from the LIVE Space Station in high definition,
and here is an example to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njCDZWTI­xg​ Gaze
on the stunning results right inside your blab event.
Find more ​16:9 examples​ by following the ​green​ text.
3. Now Proceed with Some Caution because when
answering questions, using the slash command “Q,”
you will ​override​ your current DropIn ENTIRELY.
4. Next let’s get you working with the quad. It is called a
quad because blab is set up in four (4) quadrants or
squares for participants, for questions or declaratives
up to 135 characters and now the DropIn feature.
5. Pick a podcast link such as a favorite broadcaster you
listen to daily, here is an example using ​iTunes​.
6. ​iTunes​ displays all the great cover art we love and here
is a good example
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pnr­this­old­marketi
ng­content/id760760485?mt=2&ref=blab​ (......) this link
drops in a “click to view,” which then takes to you the
podcasters full iTunes Preview page.
7. We will use ​Spreaker.com​ as our next example. Grab
the URL from your favorite podcaster. You can also
take the “share” icon link which is located at the bottom

7. right for most devices. Once placed in the DropIn, that
episode will be shown, you will see a wave, and the title
of the upload. A press to play button is displayed.
LET’S DIVE IN.
Starting with​ ​Twitter​. Go to the three dots or ellipsis (...)
twitter calls it “More,” which is directly under the tweet. Select
“copy link to Tweet.” Place in the DropIn. Tweets will display
with all of their elements provided they are properly sized.
They could have images, photographs, gifs, video and even
periscope live events. If a “press to play” button displays,
each audience member has those controls. It’s pretty cool.
But there is much more with Twitter.
When you are posting a tiny tweet which is the original 140 in
the DropIn, if you look carefully, you will see that you can
engage with the tweet just as you would if you were on the
twitter app. You can reply, “like,” even get the twitter app.
CLEVER IDEAS. Using Moments. Find a moment you wish
to share on your twitter time­line. Follow the steps above
taking that link and using the DropIn.
Using Periscope. Find a scope you wish to share on your
twitter time­line. Follow the steps above. A still picture will be
captured when you grabbed the original URL.
Using Vine. FInd a vine you wish to share on your twitter
time­line. Follow steps above. A still picture media player will
be captured and seen inside the quad.

9. 2. ​Now for ​YouTubeLIVE. ​ Once you’ve powered it up and it
does take a little experience, locate the share link at the
bottom right. The 16:9 widescreen format DropIn will display.
PRO TIP: The audio delay and managing your mute to
eliminate echo and other audio issues is required so take
your time setting this up. And you will have tunneling if you
don’t have screensharing all thought out.
CLEVER IDEAS. Know how to close it all down yet keep
your DropIn in an active state. The audience that is viewing
at the time you end your live stream will have a gorgeous
view of your event still AND a slider bar of four or five of your
last uploaded videos.
You may get text that reads something like this and your
YouTubeLive event will have ended and no active state will
display in DropIn. Look for text along these lines.
This Hangout On Air is now over
A recording of the broadcast will now be uploaded to your YouTube channel
and will automatically replace the live video players that were shared.
Please allow a few minutes for the upload and processing to complete. You
will be able to view the recording in your​ ​YouTube Video Manager​.
3. ​Pinterest​.​ Yes, Pinterest. The links are pretty basic. Open
Pinterest, grab the URL for a pin and then put it into the
DropIn box. If you have an affiliate link for let’s say, Amazon
on your Pinterest page your audience clicks twice to go
directly to your Amazon product. The Vine post to a Pinterest
board, then, grabbing the unique pin is full of text and looping
information which may be a hidden gem yet explored. As an

11. example see this pin,
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/125326802108667924/​ on a
collective board from Beauty’s Pinterest account. A YouTube
video of any length, once posted on a board, will play with a
double click method. As an example see this pin,
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/125326802108021366/​ on a
collective board from Beauty’s Pinterest account.
4. ​Canva​. Introduce your logo or brand using this graphic
site. There are size requirements, and we will explain all of
these in a featured chapter of the Guide. Now for the proper
URL. The URL from the share area is best, as the URL from
the menu bar only gives you a simple display with a “click to
view.” Taking an additional step of sharing on twitter may
upload faster, but, may not have all the colors, functions and
formating of your original canva. Now, if you have a number
of graphics in one vertical URL, when your audience visits the
link, they will have a numbered slide­share available to scroll
through your canva or board. This is an alternative to
LinkedIn Slide Share presentations. The most important thing
is to get your outreach, vision, ideas and concepts in the
hands of the your audience. Let people see what you are
working on. It is fantastic as a scheduler and calls to action.
Caution. Best to be prepared as Canva.com ​does​ take a
while for the URL to que up if you are wishing for immediacy.
So be patient.
We have two examples here. (1) From Stan Bush.
https://www.canva.com/design/DABn­aJ8D30/view​ using a
format sized just for twitter which is 2:1 or more specifically

13. 1024x512 px. Example (2)
https://www.canva.com/design/DABugEKh7v0/view​ from
Laura [ waiting on sizing ].
4. ​Websites​. URLS copy/paste from menu bar. Depending on
how meta header tags are written, each website will have a
different look, vibrancy and readability.
5. ​TWITCH​. Place the Twitch URL in the DropIn box.
6. ​Vimeo​ Take the link from their share button which will give
you every attribute that is
and has been added to the video. As you will see the
elements are all are active ​including​ the “Rent” buy button.
6a. Vimeo. Formatted content is important. The 16:9 aspect
ratio large format DropIn does work. An example such as
https://vimeo.com/65433105​.
CLEVER IDEAS. Purchase pop up via Vimeo gives the
audience the “video on demand” choices for payment
processing.
CAUTION ON VIMEO. We have experienced a number of
times when a browser will lock and stream begins to pulse.
Make certain you have a “re­fresh co­host” as it will require a
re­fresh to come back with full function.
Vine​. The examples we tested are not displaying (as of
March 26, 2016) Unless you have made them a tweet.
7. ​Soundcloud​. As of last testing (March 26, 2016)
Soundcloud was not available. There is a work­around
involving, yes,Twitter. Simply share your clip on twitter. Use
the share a tweet and DropIn.
7a. ​iTunes​ gives us some nice art.

15. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pnr­this­old­marketing­co
ntent/id760760485?mt=2&ref=blab
7b. NPR gives art, but is a double click to play. Strip from the
embed. From http… to the end of the unique number. Here is
the iframe code <iframe
src="​http://www.npr.org/player/embed/150057676/150057781
" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"
title="NPR embedded audio player"></iframe> This is what
you want to grab.
http://www.npr.org/player/embed/150057676/150057781
We will continue dropping those links in as testers.
EVENTS. Often we will drop event links of contributors who
discuss the features with some authority over the subject.
8. ​Livestream​. From the Livestream share button. Allow for
the element to load. Click the live button/arrow and allow to
generate a load wheel. Click inside the load wheel and the
feed will begin. Strip from the embed. From http...to the end
of the unique number. Here is the iframe code <iframe
id="ls_embed_1459042450"
src="//​livestream.com/accounts/1658248/events/4774776​/pla
yer?width=560&height=315&autoPlay=true&mute=false"
width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"
scrolling="no"></iframe>. This is what you want to grab.
livestream.com/accounts/1658248/events/4774776 ​OR the
simple link ​http://livestream.com/itvl/events/4774776
9. ​Katch​. From the simple URL. As of March 5​th​
2016, these
links only display the site.

17. 10. ​Katch​2​. The https from embed, copy and paste up to the
“?” mark that gives you the play arrow, or, the shortened link
that gives you the title and the play arrow.
11. ​Amazon​, ​Netflix​ and other “video­on­demand” do go
through a loading or spinning sequence. From the simple
URL. As of March 5​th​
, 2016, these links never fully load.
12. ​eBAY​. The URL is amazing and you will have another rich
and robust visual depending on the item and description
submitted by the seller.
13. ​USTREAM​. From the URL offered. Although you do get
some image in the quad, the play button takes to you
USTREAM.
14. ​Vaughn​. Simple URL. The site link is only shown.
15. ​Periscope​. ​New finding​ as of March 7​h​
, 2016. During a
LIVE Periscope on Twitter. Requires a two click method, but
the still image if you catch it just right is fantastic.
16. ​LINKEDIN​ | ​SlideShare​. Simple URL. Site link should
deploy a working forward and backward view of the slides for
the host. Users do not have controls. You may not “see” the
slide share on certain mobile devices.
17. ​LINKEDIN​ | ​Videos​. From the embed script.
18. ​News outlets​. ​WSJ​, ​NY Times​, ​PEOPLE​, ​Vogue​, the
simple URL’s of free­mium articles is robust. The
photography, headline and favicon for the publication are all
displayed.
19. ​News outlets ​LIVE. There are many news stations that
offer LIVE feeds of reporting, etc., giving you the iframe
embed code and the https link.

19. 20. ​YouTube Auto­Play​. Features are improving. Blab is
testing the host controls of play, playback and pause of
YouTube content
21. ​BlogTalkRadio​.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/beauty­bubble/2012/08/30/beau
ty­bubble­now­reel­32​ Auto­plays to every viewer.
22. ​LivIt​. Mobile stream from your phone. The URL is touchy.
Use the URL. A nice website card with a title and profile
picture is displayed. Only once did a double click result in a
live event. Usually, a text line will display, reading, “This
event has not started yet” or “...has already ended​.” ​We will
continue to test LivIt in the future.
These are test examples. ​ ​http://lvt.me/?v=DV2ENvrGqJ#​ and
http://lvt.me/?v=kA2ldjO21p​ they are have included to
demonstrate the code lines for future testing.
23. ​libsyn​. The event and your art. Notice how it is from the
“directory” link. ​http://directory.libsyn.com/​ ←­ KEEP THIS
INTACT
http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/sciencefriday/i
d/4248474​. The main attribute of the libsyn site is you can
play the entire playback without leaving the blab event page.
The slider, timer, pause and logo are all expressed.
24. ​JukeDeck​. Drops the website page AND their cover art. A
twitter post is good too. Both are expressed in the original
quad.
https://www.jukedeck.com/share/1869ac8e08859d207f63bd2
dd4e77214f91fd44547242ef8af86021cb2ab9028

21. 25. ​YouTube360​o​
. Drop the link and you can view 360 with
your mouse pad navigation.
26. ​Video Trailer by Snipandshare.com​. Once your snip has
been created and shared on twitter. Copy the tweet and
place in DropIn. Full video is displayed with a click.
27. ​Overcast.fm​.
28. ​audioBoom​. There are three different ways to use the
DropIn. The landing page. The channel, which displays a
good portion of the content wave files and art. Via the actual
event, which displays their showcard.
29. ​MeeVee​. This are simple URL drops and all share
menus and embeds do not play. Full video is displayed with
a click. Example. ​http://www.mevee.com/s/MYTN1CAIzX
30. ​Clammr​.
http://www.clammr.com/app/clammr/204436?extendedInfoAut
oplay=1
31. ​Krue.tv​. ​https://www.krue.tv/christineewhite
32. ​IMDB​. Should you wish to present a title of a movie. You
can try this as an example “The Rock” (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
33. Don’t get too crazy about using MP3.
http://example.com/bond/theme.mp3
There, you have it, thirty­three ways to use the DropIn
feature. Be of good cheer.

23.
Below here are notes from
Have Your Own Production Company.
Ideas.
Travel insiders.
Creators List on YouTUBE.
FEATURED CREATORS
Farah - ​http://www.youtube.com/farahasifa
Jake - ​https://www.youtube.com/c/dronetechch...
Adam - ​https://www.youtube.com/c/guyinacube
Jim Ray - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/JimRayCo...
Nastya - ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrdz...
Mani - ​http://www.youtube.com/c/2000books
Masoud - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceCiv...
Dianne - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/ownyourb...
AnubizRay - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/AnubizRa1
Anthony - ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdIw...
Biffa - ​http://www.youtube.com/biffa2001
Joey - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/FitnessH...
Sam - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/samtimenews
Kathleen - ​https://www.youtube.com/c/quadsquad
Prince - ​http://www.youtube.com/urbanacolytetv
Fred - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/thehlpmchn
David - ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5lZ...
Yana - ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqS...
Cammon - ​https://www.youtube.com/user/cammonra...
Dids - ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7t...