We have published 16 articles on Web broadcasting...

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  1. For a few years it was simple; Flash Video in the form of a .flv file was the preferred method of streaming to reach the widest possible audience. Then the H264 codec came along, HTML5 became a hot topic and … Continue reading

  2. What it is to be a Global Small Business

    Martin Shepherdly published this on February 17, 2012

    It’s great fun this global business malarkey! Last week we were in Amsterdam and responsible for live webcasting the keynote speech at Blackberry DevCon Europe (and also recording many of the breakout sessions) working with our friends at Shelton Fleming … Continue reading

  3. Why web broadcasting is important

    Martin Shepherdly published this on January 18, 2012

    Web broadcasting has changed the way we communicate with the world. Now, pretty much anyone can reach an audience comparable in size to that achieved by the ‘old-school’ mainstream media. And the great thing is that there is hardly any … Continue reading

  4. Shout about it!

    Martin Shepherdly published this on November 17, 2011

    Making bigger gains, whatever that might be in your particular circumstances is often dependent on one’s ability to reach a larger audience. Of course this is the fundamental principle behind advertising; spend to reach a large audience and then let … Continue reading

  5. Embedding webcasts into Facebook

    Martin Shepherdly published this on November 10, 2011

    As I write this, we are working with our friends at George P Johnson to live webcast the IBM Smarter Business 2011 conference taking place in Oslo. Their clients at IBM have embedded our stream into their Facebook page. I … Continue reading

  6. Are you frustrated at the amount of time and effort that goes into putting the presentations together, for them only to be seen and heard once by an audience limited to the number of seats you can squeeze in the … Continue reading

  7. For those involved in organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and congresses… in fact pretty much any kind of face to face event, here are seven compelling reasons why you might want to web broadcast your event. You are frustrated at the … Continue reading

  8. Challenge or opportunity?

    Martin Shepherdly published this on August 19, 2011

    There’s an almost palpable tension in the conference and events industry between face to face events and the ‘virtual’ or ‘online’ experience. There seems to be a certain reticence from some traditional conference production companies, experiential agencies, PCOs and event … Continue reading

  9. No I’m not going on about relativity or quantum physics, not even about Star Trek or Doctor Who. What I’m referring to is one of the first things a conference organiser must  consider when deliberating over webcasting their event is … Continue reading

  10. Recovering Waste

    Martin Shepherdly published this on June 4, 2011

    Time was that if you suggested someone had ‘recycled’ a presentation you might be seen to be suggesting plagiarism or laziness. But in this contemporary world where reducing cost and increasing sustainability are so important, recycling presentations by recording and … Continue reading

  11. A word of advice for anyone planning to fly with excess baggage; be very careful which airline you choose! In travelling around with our equipment, however portable it might be, there are often times when the question of excess baggage … Continue reading

  12. Another initiative this year is the launch of a series of seminars and networking events for organisations interested in the BeThere Global service but who want to find out more about it at first hand and understand how they can … Continue reading

  13. BeThere have Been There! In its first full year BeThere Global recorded and web broadcast over 100 conferences and events in locations as diverse as Honolulu and Stockholm, for clients operating in many varied sectors; including medical, construction, financial, technology … Continue reading

  14. With bases on both sides of the Atlantic from the start, BeThere Global is quite an unusual company. While our equipment is extremely portable and our operators regularly fly the world to webcast conferences, it has always been our intention … Continue reading

  15. Unlock the full value of your live event or presentation was chosen as our headline for the new homepage, because we enable our clients to get greater value from the time effort and resources they put into creating their conferences; … Continue reading

  16. The people did not believe it was live

    Martin Shepherdly published this on December 30, 2010

    The question of whether an event should be webcast live or on-demand is often raised. In many cases the merits of ‘live’ are outweighed by the comfort of being sure all is as everyone concerned would like it to be before uploading.