A great thing happened in our industry the other week. Oprah Winfrey, yes Mrs. Bookclub herself facilitated the largest single online web event in the history of the industry!
Oprah Winfrey hosted A New Earth Web Event which hosted a total of 500,000 participants, encompassing 242Gbps of information flowing through the internet at one time! An event of this magnitude had never been attempted before! It seems the first event experienced problems for some participants, however, it looks like they have corrected this for the next 8 events scheduled.Â
This is one of the single most important events in the history of the industry in so far as proving that web conferencing solutions are now at that point in development to handle such a large subscriber base. Furthermore, it demonstrates the benefits of this industry and solidifies that this technology is an extremely effective way of engaging large audiences online.
The content of Oprah’s online event series discusses Eckhart Tolle’s new book entitled A New Earth. As stated on the cover of Eckharts book “awakening to your life’s purpose”.Â
It was very interesting to see how they incorporated Skype into this live event. Watching remote participants ask questions over live audio & video:
We’ll hats off to Oprah…it would not be possible for anyone else to pull together such a large number of people online in a single web event.
Do you ever get tired working from home? Not to mistake, the home office is great, you can manage your own time, no distractions, work in your shorts! It all sounds nice, but yes, it can get suffocating at times. Whenever possible, we like to get out and work from a coffee shop, or park (if your city is nice enough to offer you wifi!). Yes it does sound promising for the home worker, conferencing on your laptop, under a tree, in the warm afternoon sun!
It is nice to think that most cities soon, will have high speed wifi access. In Toronto, we have the One Zone, which is operated by Toronto Hydro, using their infrastructure already built out in the city. Unfortunately, this is a paid service, and at the moment, it is not really worth the small monthly fee their asking. I’ve tried a couple times, and your constantly trying to re-connect to network. However, the idea is there, and I’m sure they will improve the strength of their signal soon, if it has not improved already.
There is great coffee shop in Toronto, called Linux Cafe. Of course, as per their name, they fully support the open source initiatives. Linux was nice enough to send a boosted wireless signal out to the local park across the street. So the idea is possible, sitting under a tree, in a park, working on your laptop!
Are you looking for a timely and efficient way to schedule, register and host your online meetings?
Batipi’s Managed Webinar service is what you need! Our managed meeting service assigns you or your company a dedicated meeting consultant available 24-7-365 before, during & after your online event.
Why add another tier of communication to your meeting you ask?
Our meeting consultants provide a high level of proffesionalism to your companies online meeting strategy. In essence they are your ‘meeting gurus’. They will schedule, organise, register, customize and provide “live” in-meeting support to ensure that your webinar presentation is delivered imaculately. Imagine your own private online meeting assistant without the stresses of paying an added salary!
Batipi’s Managed Webinar Service are therefore the way to go! They provide:
one assigned point of contact within Batipi
pre-meeting registration set-up & customization
pre-event training on features and navigation for all presenters
pre-event systems check for participants
pre-webinar marketing options- we promote your online event
customized micro-sites and presentation templates
upload & optimization of all presentation materials
“live” in-meeting support for all presenters and attendees
post-meeting report for your event
distribution of recorded media
This service allows YOU to concentrate on what is most important, your content!
Also available is the opportunity to use this service with ALL our conferencing platforms. This allows your meeting to be flexible and gives you more of an opportunity to engage your audience with customizable content that is most important, be it a power-point presentation, animations, web content, desktop application demo’s, etc, there is a solution available for you.
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Is it affordable?
Our Managed Meeting service provides a numerous array of pricing models depending on a number of factors such as, number of meetings, duration, number of attendees, meeting specifics (video, audio, presentation, application sharing, VoIP, etc), registration, customization, etc.
For example:
Company A wishes to have 2 meetings monthly for up to 60 minutes each. There will be up to 10 upper-level managers attending the meetings and they will be provided with all Batipi Managed Webinar features (video, audio, presentation sharing, pre-registration and training, in-meeting support, recording and archiving, customized video playback, etc).
The above meeting would run for about $60 per meeting, ie, $120 per month which is reasonably cheaper and more affordable for some individuals than a monthly plan.
Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, is now available @ Batipi. The web conferencing service is offered as a hosted solution, with the exceptional support, you have come to expect from us!
This upgrade has been well overdue and finally we are able to provide it to our esteemed clientele!
Live Meeting 2007 is a hosted web conferencing service that connects and engages audiences in online meetings, training, and events through a reliable, enterprise-class hosted service. With meeting attendees participating from their PCs, you can deliver a presentation, kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on whiteboards, and negotiate deals at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of travel.
This platform allows for efficient, affordable and reliable online conferencing for all! The new video function allows for an in-depth and personal experience for the interactive user and is a must have in this ever changing video conferencing market.
We plan on having an interactive review of this new service, posted to the website shortly. Otherwise, contact one of our conferencing consultants, to see how Live Meeting 2007 can fit into your collaborative strategies for 2008!
Here is a comparison of the Standard & Professional version:
We have been thinking about a way to incorporate shopping cart software into our website. At Batipi, we offer managed webinar services, so this was an attempt to automate the process for customers to schedule thier upcoming online meetings.
Looking for a consultant to help us with this project we found Get a Freelancer. A great resource if you need to outsource work, and hire very qualified talent. This obviously is a trend that is moving in an upward direction, as searching for freelancer on Google, you will find a handful of other companies doing a similar thing, such as, elance, and odesk.
The contractor that we hired was Planet Web Solutions, and they are based in India. One of the challenges we had was the time zone! Being exactly 10 hours apart makes it difficult to find time to connect over the phone, or online. Somebody’s going to bed and somebody’s waking up! We tried a couple methods of working through email, and google docs, but it does get tiresome. Especially in this case, where a huge part is just customization.
Web conferencing for easy communication
Using a tool like application sharing and recording the session with audio, can be a convenient way to get your message across. The recording below using our video conferencing tool, allows us to record a web meeting, with PowerPoint slides, co-browse a website, and share applications running on the computer.
