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 very limited ability to interact with you or the information you’re presenting.

PresenterNet’s new Web Conversations feature allows you to not only embed your presentation into any web page, but adds interactivity features that create a conversation between your content and the viewer, allowing them to rate interest on specific features or benefits using a sliding scale, answer questions, complete forms and get the sense of being more connected to the content being presented.

You can see a demo of how it works at their website here.

Webcasting to 80,000 attendees? Here’s how.

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.