Mediasite 5.3: What’s In It For Me?

The new year is upon us and with it, a new release: Mediasite 5.3 (you can download it now from the Customer Assurance Portal – log in is required). As I was sharing the news on the Mediasite social scene (Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter), a MUG member asked, “Why would I want to upgrade? WIIFM.”

Excellent question.

Here’s our very own John Pollard to talk you through the good stuff. While 5.3 isn’t intended to move mountains, for a lot of Mediasite users, it makes the first week of 2010 a reason to celebrate.

• Ability to download presentations from within the Mediasite Catalog
• Lots of player enhancements: video placement now on either side, customizable banner sizes, keyboard shortcuts, playback controls now stay visible, show or hide the reflection as you see fit, links icon now available from the control bar (instead of within the infocard)
• Bookmarking: pick up watching a presentation where you left off
• Drag and drop folders and presentations within the Management Portal or a catalog
• More reporting goodness, including printable/exportable live viewing snapshots, new folder filter in authoring stats to see who is creating what, plus multicast reporting for individual users