Posts Tagged ‘video’

Live application sharing versus playing a video?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Many of our customers are moving away from doing a “live demonstration” portion of a webinar and instead play a video that was “pre-recorded”. There are definite pros and cons to each approach.

flexibilityA live demonstration (application sharing) gives you FLEXIBILITY.

Flexibility to meet the needs/questions of the lives audience.

Flexibility to manage time allotment – being able to demonstrate more or less depending on what time is available.

Flexibility to “go back” and show it again or go in more depth if needed.

Flexibility to application share anything on your desktop.

peace_of_mindA recorded demonstration gives you PEACE OF MIND.

Peace of mind that the presenter does not need to be on a “great internet connection” or even logged into the “network” during the live webinar.

Peace of mind that there is no “delay” in the “refresh rate” and thus the video will appear to run smoother.

Peace of mind that you know how long the demo takes, covered everything, and didn’t make any “mistakes”.

Feel free to post your comments and let us know your preference!

Bandwidth Speed – How important is it for online events?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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We have been busy ramping up, testing web-conferencing software, adding service offerings and much more! I hope you noticed our Helpful Gadgets page. The first gadget is a Broadband Speed checker. It tests both your download and upload speeds.  Other factors that may effect presenter and attendee experiences are transfer rates, networks, and latency.  It is also very important to note that your bandwidth speed is affected by what web-conferencing platform you use.  Why?  The short answer: Different web-conferencing platforms have different server locations.  The more servers they have, the more likely one is located closer to you physically.  The better the performance.  More on that later.

First in this post let’s understand what we are talking about. The next post will talk about how to improve performance. And finally, a post to talk about the “why this matters” and how this affects which web-conferencing software platform to use for your online event.

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