When planning and delivering your webcast its critical to know how much Internet access bandwidth is available. When in the planning stage, we use this information to recommend the right solution for your event. We will test this before your event as well, and use that information to make sure we have set-up our streaming encoders optimally.

So how do you know how much bandwidth is available? Listen to this screencast to learn about the free tool Speedtest.net:





View the Speedtest.net screencast in its own window here.

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I just attended a live video show by HubSpot.  They are experimenting  with a  live show format on the web.  Although targeting a business audience using this approach is clearly bleeding-edge,  I think its a worthwhile experiment. I will have more observations on this effort, but wanted to share with you specifically what happened today.  Read the rest of this entry »

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