9.22 @ 1pm ct: Blended Events 101 – Webcasting Your Physical Conference to an Online Audience
And here’s the second webinar for September with yours truly at the mic presenting “Blended Events 101: A Primer for Webcasting Your Physical Conference to an Online Audience” on Tuesday, September 22 at 1:00 pm CT. I hope you’ll tune in (it’s free, as ever) – you can register here.
There’s been a lot of talk about online conferences, web-based expos and virtual meetings replacing face-to-face events. But many meeting planners don’t necessarily see it as an either/or proposition. They are doing both: complementing their live conferences with viewing over the web – either in real-time or on-demand.
The result is a blended event that serves two audiences – those who could not attend the actual meeting and those who attended but want to review sessions again or tune in to ones they missed.
Curious about turning your physical event into a blended conference but don’t know where to start? Take heart. In this webinar, I break the process down into bite-sized pieces:
- Definitions of different meeting technology, and what’s best to use when
- Top reasons meeting planners choose to meet and webcast vs. purely going virtual
- How to repurpose your existing conference approach for online audiences, rather than reinventing the wheel
- Common pitfalls in planning blended events and how to avoid them
- Real-world examples to use as a road map for your organization
Just register before we go live. Even if you can’t make it, we’ll send the link out for the on-demand presentation right after.
Just a few questions actually, does your company provide captioning for your webcasts? If so, is there an additional few and what is that few? If not, why not?
Hi Cheryl – great question and the answer is a resounding yes.
We have many clients who require closed captioning for their webcasts. We can work with any 3rd party captioning firm to incorporate the transcript. And while those firms will have an associated fee for the transcription, there is no extra cost for Sonic Foundry Event Services to stream captioned content via Mediasite.
Here’s a post you might find of interest, “Making Multimedia Better for the Visually Impaired – An Interview with Orville Maxon” and here’s more info about how we do captioning, and lastly here’s a link to what closed captioning in Mediasite looks like (note: this player requires Silverlight).