8. Have a real discussion, invite a guest.
During a show, you may want to interview someone and discuss with him, like on radio or on TV. You may also want to ask a friend to help you hosting a show. ShowPrime.com is offering you the easiest way to engage a conversation online.
In your studio, you can see the host chat on the right of your player screen. You can see your own avatar inside. Click on the + icon just on the right of your avatar to invite a guest. You can type his name or directly drag and drop from someone from your buddy list on your far left. This will send a invite to your guest. Click on the + icon again to stop displaying the search.
Note that you can switch between the host and the spectator chats by clicking on the different chat tabs.
If someone invites you, you will receive this in the invitation box on the right of the blue mic icon (the one you use to start a show). Click on it to display all the invites you have received. Then you can accept or decline the invite. If you are watching a show live and the host invites you, you will have the invite displayed on your player screen. If you accept, you will enter as a guest automatically.
Now back to the host. In the host chat, you will see the avatars of the different guests you have invited. If they accept, the ? icon on their avatar will be replaced by a check icon. Once you have done talking with them, you can let them go by hovering their avatar and clicking on the red cross.Â
Don't forget you can always change the volume of the different guests using the icon on the right of the volume.
The host chat is only available for the host and the guests. You can invite someone when working on a project and ask for feedbacks. The host chat is saved so if a guest came when you were offline, he can type some recommendations you will read later.
Please have in mind that the host is the only master. No one else can manipulate the different elements on the screen and only the host can announce, start or end a show.
Another important point when inviting a guest: just like on a radio station or on TV, you may encounter external technical problem. For example, on TV during the interview, the telephone could be broken or something. Same here on the internet. If you invite someone who has a bad internet connection, or if you are running on a very low bandwidth, it may be good to think twice before inviting too many people. Plus, you don't want too many people speaking all together because your audience won't understand a thing.
