Creating Closed Captions in YouTube

Creating Closed Captions in YouTube

Creating closed captions for event videos is often overlooked or dismissed as too costly. But could YouTube’s tools make it easier for event videos to become more accessible and discoverable?   In our recent post about metadata for event materials, we...
Tool Review: CrowdMics

Tool Review: CrowdMics

Could an app help to amplify audience questions? We review CrowdMics – a smartphone app based microphone system for conferences that aims to do just that.   Taking audience questions at a live event is not usually an issue for an event amplifier, as we are...
Lost In Translation

Lost In Translation

This morning I opened up Twitter to find a direct message from a follower recommending that I tune in to Steve Hargadon’s presentation at UIMP 2.0, in which he discusses University 2.0. The video of his talk, as it appeared on the live video stream from the...
The Future is Radio?

The Future is Radio?

“Radio” does not really have the same buzz quotient as many of the technologies used to amplify conferences. However, yesterday Brian Kelly drew my attention to the Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning event, which is happening in Helskini later this week. The organisers...