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February 26, 2013 Tim Arthur0

The e3 Webcasting crew streaming

On February 9th, 2013, the IA Institute sponsored World IA Day, a 1 DAY 15 CITY event focusing on Information Architecture. Along with a team of global sponsors the local coordinators will assemble fifteen 1 DAY conferences all around the globe in 15 CITIES to build awareness and celebrate information architecture (IA).

What is Information Architecture?

Information architecture (IA) is the art and science of organizing and labeling data including: websites, intranets, online communities, software, books and other mediums of information, to support usability.[1] It is an emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing together principles of design and architecture, primarily to the digital landscape.[2][page needed] Typically, it involves a model or concept of information which is used and applied to activities that require explicit details of complex information systems. These activities include library systems and database development.” as defined by Wikipedia

Initial Talks

What initially started as a conversation and emails in early January between; Dan Klyn of The Understanding Group, Jeff Parks of DIGIA UX Inc., Andrea Resmini of FatDUX Group, and Laura Creekmore of Creek Content about how best to achieve a World IA Day 2013 webcast. By the end of the conversation the World IA Day 2013 Los Angeles Live Webcast from UCLA’s Charles E Young Research Library Conference Center had been birthed.

Planning Starts to Take Shape

At this point in the process, we started working with the very talented LA coordinator Alberta Soranzo as she served as liaison with the UXPA LA Board as they planned the WIAD 2013 in Los Angeles event.

The Conference Webcast

February 9th dawned a beautiful day in Los Angeles, and a crowd gathered early at the UCLA’s Charles E Young Research Library Conference Center eager to expand their IA knowledge and practice. The opening speaker of the day was Aaron Irizarry from NASDAQ OMX helping us wrap our heads around “Understanding IA.” Pulling from this years theme of what we mean when we say “architecture” and when we say “design” in our research and practice. Next up was David Fiorito of Empathy Lab speaking on “Thinking Navigation.” Following David was Greg Nudelman of DesignCaffeine, Inc. who connected with us in LA via GoToMeeting remotely from San Francisco. Greg shared an amazing mobile navigation technique he and his team have been working on. To see it in action, watch the video below.



Following lunch, Chris Chandler from the The Walt Disney Company and Lynn Boyden from USC Web Services brought us back together for the afternoon and presented on “Other People’s Problems.” And simple steps we can take to implement mentoring and the impact it can have on people’s lives. After a short break, Eric Reiss from the FatDUX Group, reminded us that “Content is still king, but its the arrows – the links that create value for our clients,” closing out the day by pulling all the presentations together with the Plenary.

Webcast Audience Reach

World IA Day 2013 LA was a smashing success! The live stream video webcast was watched by viewers in London, Germany, Sweden and beyond. Hopefully next year we can get even more World IA Day cities streaming online. Until next year…

World IA Day 2013 Conference 411

If you’d like to learn more about the World IA Day LA Conference or would like to attend next year’s conference you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: World IA Day
Twitter: @WIAD_LA
Hashtag: #WIADLA
Facebook: World IA Day
Conference Videos On Demand: World IA Day YouTube Channel


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January 31, 2013 Tim Arthur0

iOS App Makers @ Renaissance iOS Conf

This January, for three days, the best of the iOS app making community came together to instruct those in attendance at the Renaissance.io conference how to excel at the business, design, and technology of making apps. e3 Webcasting was there at the Mission Bay Conference Center to capture the making of the best iOS app makers’ conference. Created by Tim Burks of Radtastical Inc., and Bill Dudney of Gala Factory, Renaissance is the iOS app makers’ conference.

App makers aren’t just programmers. They develop ideas into apps that impact our lives. To kick off day one of the conference Brenda Chapman, who wrote and directed Pixar’s Brave, was on hand to encourage the audience to “Dare It,” by daring to be and to do something different.

There’s no substitute to learning from the best. The Renaissance conference brought together experts in a variety of fields for three days of sharing knowledge and networking. Day two’s Keynote was presented by Ken Segall, ex-Creative Director for Chiat/Day, who worked with Steve Jobs to name the iMac. Ken, encouraged everyone present to “Focus It” and remind us that “Simplicity is not a trend.” Ken’s presentation really made me want to read his book “Insanely Simple.”

After creating a list of the most important subject matter for iOS app makers to know and finding the best people in the industry to speak on those topics, Renaissance’s day three was awe-inspiring. Tim Berry wrapped up the conference with the final keynote charge to go out there and “Do it.” Known as the “the Obi Wan Kenobi of Business Plans“, and Tim Berry closed with advice for critical thinking and planning that we can use to launch our ideas to success.

My top 10 take-aways from the Renaissance Conference:

  • 1. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Showcases a great marketing strategy to get you on the charts plus a cross.

  • 2. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Also shares a cross-promotion game plan for your game.

  • 3. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Presents the per user RIO metrics to you need to know to survive.

  • 4. Winning in the App Store – Jessica Kahn of Disney Interactive Media Group

    Shares one of the research tactics Tapulous used to figure out if that app was going to be a winner or a loser.

  • 5. Apps for Everyone – Brendan Clavin of Tethras

    Presented some very interesting language data for iOS app localization.

  • 6. Apps for Everyone – Brendan Clavin of Tethras

    Shared an interesting localized SEO strategy for naming your next app.

  • 7. Apps for Everyone – Lan Lin of iPhone Localizer

    Explained the keyword difference between apps targeted at the Chinese market vs. apps targeted at the Japanese market.

  • 8. Apps for Everyone – Lan Lin of iPhone Localizer

    Provided a great tip, about how-to test different markets before localizing your complete app.

  • 9. Intentional Marketing – Tan Tmangraksat of Velti

    Showed some really fun revenue charts for iOS apps vs. other platforms.

  • 10. Intentional Marketing – Kat Gordon of Maternal Instinct and creator of the 3% Conference

    Shared the statistic that the average user has 65 apps on their phone and what that means to you as an app developer.

There were too many great take-aways from the Renaissance iOS conference to list them all here. So much so, that you should watch the videos… Click here to view the videos: Renaissance.io.

Renaissance the iOS app makers’ conference 411

If you’d like to learn more about the Renaissance Conference or would like to attend next year’s conference you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: Renaissance
Twitter: @renaissanceio
Hashtag: #renio
Facebook: Renaissance


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October 27, 2012 Isaac Arthur0

Aren Sandersen from Pinterest, @P-arensand, presenting at RedisConf

On October 22, e3 Webcasting live streamed the RedisConf in Portland, Oregon. It is a one day conference born out of the larger Realtime Conference put on by web application and design company &yet, focused specifically on the niche of programmers and developers who use the open-source database known as Redis, which is a development project sponsored by VMware.

The amazing team at &yet, led by Adam Brault, created a welcoming, unique, and creative environment for their diverse community to come together. Though a smaller-scale gathering, compared to it’s big brother the Realtime Conf, the RedisConf was well organized and stimulating. People from all over the United States, as well as internationally, came to this once-a-year event. It was a chance to network, discuss ideas, get updates on the progress made by other colleagues from around the world, and learn new techniques. Where the Realtime Conf would deal with the wider spectrum of topics related to realtime application development (for laymen, think Twitter instantly updating posts in “realtime”), the Redis Conference dug into the pros and cons related to using Redis as a multi-use tool on the Internet.

Tweet by @RedisConf

The &yet team kicked off the RedisConf with a performance of Bohemian Rhapsody rewritten from a RedisConf point of view. Streaming live from The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, over the Internet connection &yet had installed by the pro’s at Stephouse Networks, the conference was off to a great start. Speaker after speaker got up and presented to the audience of about 150-200 men and women in the room; Pieter Noordhuis, @pnoordhuis was on hand to talk about the Redis Core, and Salvatore Sanfilippo, @antirez, even spoke from his home in Italy via several pre-recorded videos.

Tweet by Pieter Noordhuis @pnoordhuis

The conference attendees listened with laptops open, absorbing the info; while we were busy making sure that the people who were watching online had the best possible video experience. As the day went on, an Amazon AWS EC2 outage started unfolding. Which, as reported by Techcrunch, affected major services such as Foursquare, Reddit, Minecraft, GitHub, Heroku, imgur, Pocket, Coursera and HipChat. Providentially, we were unaffected and the video stream went off without a problem! Overall, though there are always things that could have been improved, the RedisConf stream was a huge success. Later, we were informed by Adam Baldwin of &yet that the live stream had been watched by as many as 3,000 online viewers!

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People raved about the live stream on Twitter. They were impressed by the quality of the video, and they voiced their enthusiasm online. The RedisConf live web stream was a smash hit!

Many conferences think live-streaming is too expensive to be a viable option for smaller events, or have had negative experiences with poorly executed webcasts in the past. Many remote viewers were grateful for the chance to view the conference even though they were unable to attend in person. I suspect that there are many other conferences out there that could benefit from a well-done live stream webcast.

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RedisConf 411

If you’d like to learn more about the RedisConf or would like to attend next year’s conference you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: RedisConf
Twitter: @redisconf
Hashtag: #redisconf
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June 29, 2012 Isaac Arthur0

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If you want to maximize the capabilities of webcasting and live streaming then you’ve got to know the different ways that it can be used. There are countless ways that webcasting can be beneficially implemented by businesses and/or events, including: keynote speaker addresses, conference presentations, breakout sessions/conference tracks, trade show announcements, and even post conference follow-ups. After reading this article, you should be better informed on the ways that you could utilize webcasting to your advantage.

  • Keynote Speaker Address

    Keynote addresses are huge, meant to communicate core ideas and values to the audience and produce enthusiasm for the company or organization’s message, the overall tone of an event, or exciting announcements (think of Apple’s highly-anticipated addresses.) Webcasting can help you achieve that goal with greater effectiveness and scope. Because webcasting is via the Internet, this opens up a worldwide audience to your address, who will be eagerly listening in and participating through the online community. Not only does this open up doors for potential audience members, but it also provides greater flexibility for the speakers, as they could deliver an address from virtually anywhere and be seen and heard by the event attendees (both physical and virtual), thus maximizing keynote success and diminishing schedule problems. Webcasting could revolutionize a keynote address for your organization’s event, and on throughout the entire event.

  • Conference Presentation

    Once a keynote address is given, your audience is jazzed about your company and/or event, but usually there’s still more to come. Webcasting will play a huge role in any conference presentation. Not only will online audiences be able to watch the unfolding event, but they will also be able to participate through online chatting, Q-and-A, audience polling, and more. This will make conferences more accessible and less expensive for attendees by cutting back on travel costs and allowing people to attend from wherever they can get an Internet connection. While there are still huge perks to being at an event live and in person, this will increase your event’s coverage and extend the amount of people you are able to reach. Conference presentations are just one way that webcasting is able to help you make the most of your event.

  • Breakout Sessions/Conference Tracks

    You might think that an event’s online audience would be excluded from joining in on breakout sessions, or different conference tracks, but this too is within the range of possibilities that are presented through webcasting. All it takes is camera nearby in order to provide the web-stream crowd with access to any breakout session or extra feature at the conference/event.

  • Trade Show Announcements

    Normally, tradeshows are limited in who they can reach to those who can be physically in attendance. This means that many who are unsure whether they are interested in your products or services, do not attend. Travel costs and other factors keep them away. By providing webcasting you have an invaluable opportunity to demonstrate your trade wares to the world, and then direct them to where they can purchase what you have to offer, all with the click of a mouse.

  • Post Conference Follow-ups

    Even after a conference is over webcasting equips you with a way to follow-up with attendees, provide them with supplemental resources, as well as direct them to new info, coming events, and related products. This means that you are able to continue the event or conference long after the scheduled date is over, and those who attended in person have gone home. You can post pictures, videos, articles and requested material onto the event’s site – even host a second online event if you needed to. The sky is the limit.

Webcasting has the power to expand the horizons of any event. We’ve looked at the incredible opportunities that this technology opens up. Whether you are thinking about streaming a keynote address, a conference presentation, breakout session or conference track, or trade show, and how webcasting even creates an opportunity to expand your options beyond the actual event through post conference follow-ups. And this is merely the tip of the iceberg! Even utilizing just one of these ways to use webcasting would transform your event or conference, and heighten its success beyond your imagination!

e3 Webcasting, LLC., will manage all aspects of production for your live event webcast so that you can focus on what’s important, “your event’s message”. Our professional webcasting crew will provide you with a single point of contact for live webcasting and streaming production. We will work with you, as well as for you, to execute an effectively successful live webcast event.

For more information regarding the streaming services provided by e3 Webcasting or to speak with a representative, please contact us or give us a call at 888-695-2396.


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