Webcasting Goes Social with new On24 Platform

With webcasts, the more interactivity the better.  Although they’re mostly one-way affairs, polls and questions from attendees have allowed some measure of audience participation in the past.  But in today’s ...

Webcasting Insights: Stats to help you plan your event

One of the platforms I’ve worked with over the past few years is BrightTalk, a UK-based company that offers an easy to use solution for creating and presenting PowerPoint-based web ...

Webcasting reaches into the afterlife – Funerals on Demand

When my father passed away earlier this year the funeral home worked with our family to create a tribute video with a photo montage of dad over the years.  They ...

Webcast Fail: Speaker no-shows

The other day I was moderating a webcast for a large technology company, and as usual we all dialed in a half hour early to make sure everyone’s phone was ...

Animating Webcasts: Flash, Video and .PPT Builds

Most webcasts entail a slide deck created in PowerPoint and accompanying audio – one ore more presenters sharing their sales, marketing or training presentation with a remote audience.  Until recently ...

Web Conversations: Making archived presentations interactive

Most webcasting platforms have the capability to archive your presentation so people who couldn’t attend live still get to see your presentation.  But viewers of an archived presentation have had ...

Ready, Set, Plan For The Worst

Earlier this week I hosted a webcast featuring a great speaker – a well known  author, engaging presenter and communications coach.  We’d done events together in the past and knew ...

Webcast Prep – Speaker Readiness and Rehearsal

What are the two most frequently heard syllables on webcasts? Easy – “um” and “uh”. I suppose it could be worse. I remember a teenager I worked with years ago who ...

Great Webcasts? Begin with a great plan

What are the steps that go into a great webcast? This post looks at all the tasks you should think about before your webcast ever begins – and where to turn for help in making your events pop.

Product Marketing via Webcasts

Welcome to the Webcast Maven – all about using webcasts to market your product or service.  Why webcasts?  They generate quality leads from viewers who actively attend events, are easily recorded for archival usage, position marketers as ...
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Webcasting to 80,000 attendees? Here’s how.

Published on November 10th, 20092 comment

I’ve participated in a few webcasts with over a thousand attendees.  A few years ago, a webcast I moderated with Sun Micro’s Jonathan Schwartz drew over four thousand attendees to a seamless event, thanks to our friends at On24.  But what if you need to reach an audience twenty times that size?  This ComputerWorld article lays out Adobe Connect Pro’s newest release which includes support for up to 80,000 attendees.

Think of it as a really big virtual flash mob.

Creating Hybrid events – meshing live and virtual worlds

Published on November 10th, 2009no comments

Hybrid events combine a face to face event with virtual attendees around the globe in a seamless community.  This article at Virtual Edge highlights a new venture between digital media and webcasting pioneer Sonic Foundry and event networking firm Zerista, bringing video to these private communities that live in both worlds.

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