Well, our first attempt to stream our meetings was a resounding success-slash-FAIL. We had about 16 actual-real-life people in the room and a consistent remote viewership of about a dozen people (and about 20 all told over the course of the evening), with lots of chat feedback from the remote audience. All of that was great. But when I went to save the recording: FAIL. Too embarrassing to go into detail (let’s just say I thought that CANCEL button meant, er, something else). Better luck next time, I suppose, though I’m disappointed.
We’ll be trying a few things differently next go round. Aside from not breaking things, we’ll look into better views of the presentations themselves, rather than a shot of a darkened room with blobs moving around. Options include picture-in-picture or two simultaneous streams, or dumping the “room view” altogether when the presentation is heavily projection-driven.
In any case: the meeting itself was very informative and dynamic, with lots of participation from the in-person audience.
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