# Live Blog Reviews
**Vendor:** Sourcefabric  
**Category:** [CMS Tools ](https://www.g2.com/categories/cms-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About Live Blog
Live Blog is the open source live blogging tool for news professionals. Live Blog enables media organisations or bloggers to cover both the breaking events and events that unfold during a longer period of time, while using video, images, text and audio from their reporters and social media channels. Live Blog is developed by Sourcefabric, Europe's largest developer of open source software for news media, powering news and media organisations around the world.




## Live Blog Reviews
  ### 1. Go and Try for Free

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Prerana P. | Cloud Reliability Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2023

**What do you like best about Live Blog?**

Need to start with blogging to share your experience or do affilate marketing? I think Live Blog is best choice , mainly due to their unique SEO i.e. search engine optimized theme. It will help you to reach your particular group of audience. You don't need any coding experience, you can easily do your setup within minutes. So, I believe you should definitely give a try for it.

**What do you dislike about Live Blog?**

They can offer more customization or sections. Otherwise I found it go to use platform.

**What problems is Live Blog solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The main feature is SEO which not that much understandable to person in non tech background. So, it is very helpful.

  ### 2. Anyone can start Blogging

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Amrit M. | Digital Marketing Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2022

**What do you like best about Live Blog?**

Lots of free themes are available.
Quick content creation and optimisation.
Easy to use UI.

**What do you dislike about Live Blog?**

As most of us use WordPress, it will take time to become handy. Also, limited integration is available.

**What problems is Live Blog solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Live Blog is a Blogging site specially made for news or personal blog writers. I used it for my project blog.

  ### 3. I really love Live Blog so far

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2021

**What do you like best about Live Blog?**

I love that you don't need to know coding in order to update your blog posts -- it has been way easier than other options like Wordpress. It is very easy to insert social media links directly into blog posts. It is easy to source SEO keywords with themes. Live Blog is open source which is always admirable. I love that it is a journalist-owned organization.

**What do you dislike about Live Blog?**

I really like the feaures but the software is relatively new - I believe there could be more "bells and whistles" added to the themes but I'm sure this will come over time. Their team is always adept at working on and improving features.

**Recommendations to others considering Live Blog:**

I think it's definitely worth it to give it a demo to see if it meets your companies needs.

**What problems is Live Blog solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I solved the problem of fighting with Word Press databases. Live Blog is very intuitive and user friendly which is a big plus for me.


## Live Blog Discussions
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## Live Blog Features
**Platform Functionality**
- Social Media
- SEO Optimized
- Commenting
- Blog Analytics
- Mobile App
- Live Chat
- Interactive Polls
- Lead Capture
- Tagging
- Scheduled Posts
- Real-time Alerts
- Customization

**Editing**
- Photo Editing
- Video Editing

**Other Content Features **
- SEO Optimization
- Collaboration
- Content Proofing
- Interactive Content
- Content Scheduling
- Import Content

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