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A Live Internet TV Channel For Your Business

By Dan Baldwin, 8/17/9

Need to communicate live to all of your employees, customer or prospects at once as if you had your own TV channel over the Internet?

Now you can with a video camera and a computer plugged into your broadband business Internet connection. ATEL can help you with Livestream, a new business-grade Internet service that gives you your own TV channel to the world and archives all your content for later playback.

Livestream at www.Livestream.com is a live video web stream service for users who can connect a video camera to a computers connected to the Internet. This gives the Livestream user the ability to create their own live TV channel. The service also creates a viewable archive of any content you stream live. The service has a free (ad supported) or premium (paid) version.

I stumbled across the Livestream service when I received an email newsletter from RVtravel.com that promoted their 2-hour live broadcast this past Saturday. Well I just happened to see the email during the live broadcast so I clicked on it and it was just as advertised - a guy sitting in front of an RV talking about RVs. The most amazing thing about the broadcast was that 180 people other than me were watching at the same time!

As most of you know I love video as a way to transmit information to our audience but I do all mine in a recorded format so it can be easily indexed for the benefit of the viewer who only wants to view a certain bit of the content.

The Livestream service seems perfect for any sort of business that needs to put out a corporate message to a large audience. I would think that investor's board meetings or other formal conference calls could easily go for this TA type format. During the live broadcast it was possible to "chat" in questions to be answered live.

The only caution 951TEL might have about using this service to host all our video & video archives is that we're quite possessive of our content and want to make sure we have direct possession of at least copies of our content . We've looked at other 3rd-party content hosts that let you create and distribute audio & video content through them like Livestream but with many serviecs you can't download a backup copy of the content. That can be bad deal because then you can never leave that service provider unless you want to recreate all your content. But if your content does not lend itself to needing to be archived (think daily "weather" reports) then not having backup content copies is not an issue.

Would you like to explore this business broadcasting solution or a different one with ATEL? We'll help you select and implement one or a couple to see what works best for your business.

For immediate help please contact Dan Baldwin at Dan@951tel.com or 951-251-5155.