I’ve been live-blogging our earnings calls for eBay for 2 years now. Each quarter I try to streamline the process in which I report the information here on Ink. I think I’ve got to a point that makes it most easy to report. With the new eBay Ink functionality, I’m able to live-blog the call right here on the blog and have my tweets automatically propagate through Twitter straight from here.

I’ve also tried to optimize my physical working space. I took a picture of it for you below. You’ll see I have three primary screens displaying different information. The left screen will display the earnings call slides as our CEO John Donahoe and CFO Bob Swan run through on the call. The right screen is my Seesmic desktop display that tracks the conversation coming out of earnings and all things eBay so I can monitor and/or retweet any nuggets coming from third-party bloggers. Finally, the center screen is where I will be typing the key quotes coming out of the call directly onto eBay Ink (and subsequently Twitter). I’ll let you know how it goes.

I’m presenting at Ragan’s Social Media for Financial Communicators conference at the NASDAQ in June so I’m hoping today goes smoothly because I’d like to capture it as my case-study for that presentation.

Cheers,
RBH