Live-blogging toolCoverItLive has released an upgrade this week that is truly helpful for bloggers in the social media space. If you've got one of those handy phones that supports Qik, or you do live video blogging with Mogulus or ustream, you can now drop your feeds into your CoverItLive window and broadcast it to the world, along with your live blogging coverage.
This builds on CoverItLive's existing option for dropping a YouTube video into your CoverItLive window, though the formatting has been improved (with the video appearing in the top right corner of the window) and users can expand the video with a separate window if they'd like. The major benefit of being able to include these videos into your live blogging coverage is the streamlining for the blogging multi-tasker, which is what CoverItLive has always been good at.
With the added support for Qik and the others, such multitasking is made even more simple, in a very focused manner for those multimedia-oriented content producers. It also centralizes your content for distribution purposes, and makes consumption easier for your audience.
What's more, is that this can become a collaborative feature, either allowing you and fellow colleagues to contribute video streams to a single CoverItLive window, or accept video feeds from audience members and have interactive event coverage from that vantage point. The possibilities of multimedia blogging and distribution have been stepped up with this new feature, and I'm sure we here at Mashable will be taking advantage of the new features in the near future.
