how it works

join

anonymously join a public voispot or login to participate or to join a private spot

join from a shared link, from the live, hot, or my spots (if logged in), or by entering a spot ID

create

log in to create a private or a public voispot and give it a title

start it now or schedule it (public spots last for set duration, but will not end as long as spot is active while host must manually extend private spots by touching the timer)

host control a private spot or leave it to social controls (host controlled spots will not start until the host joins)

keep it ephemeral or record it

create episodes and notify subscribers (when you create it and just before it goes live)

listener count

includes everyone logged in and listening anonymously

timer

appears only during private voispots and can be increased by tapping prior to expiring, otherwise spot will end when time expires – with alert appearing 5 minutes before time expires

share

share photos, slides, websites and more with your audience while continuing to talk and interact

social share

via Facebook, Twitter, email, and text - subscribe and get new episode notifications

info

displays information about the spot and allows host to end the spot

data signal

indicates strength of streaming data

rec on/off

appears if host wants to record (only the host can turn on/off recording during a voispot, and only the host can download and/or delete the recorded/archived spot from the placeholder page)

mute

activates push to talk

question Q (appears when in audience)

places you in the questionQ where anyone on stage can invite you to speak

stage Q

puts you on stage if space available or in the stageQ if stage is full in a public voispot (if spot is host controlled, host must invite you to the stage from stageQ)

leave stage

places you back into the audience

audio source

input/output choices (controlled by iOS)

awaiting host

a host controlled voispot will not begin until the host joins the spot (in a private spot, the timer will begin counting down, however, from the time the spot was scheduled to start)

the stage

displays everyone who can talk 1, 3, 5 or 10 stage spots plus an invitee from the audience via the question Q

avatars glow green, yellow, or red when someone is talking and dims if experiencing connection problems (including when switching between wifi and cellular or getting/accepting a phone call)

leave button places you back into the audience

bounce button/meter in public voispots (see bounce) provides social control

mute to activate push to talk

audience

lists everyone who is logged in (moves up and down with pulls or hidden by touching audience button)

questionQ

lists everyone who is logged in and wants to ask a question (moves up and down with pulls or hidden by touching audience button) anyone on stage can invite you up to ask your question unless spot is host controlled, in which case only the host can invite you up

stageQ

lists everyone who is logged in and wants to join the stage (moves up and down with pulls or hidden by touching audience button)

when host control is chosen, only the host may detrmine if audience can join.

if host controlled is chosen during create, a 4 digit stage pin may be established to further control who is allowed to participate.

star power

this is a rating system (gold stars represent VIPs, something that gets done manually)

a star power event (glowing star) appears randomly during public voispots (a star power event)

touch the star to receive 1 point if you are in the audience and 5 points if you are on stage

host receives 5 points for being on stage, 50% of the number of stage participants and 10% of the total number of audience members