Wow, John, every time you open your mouth or hit the keyboard I learn 
something new and cool.  Thanks!

Deborah

At 14:22 14.04.2009, you wrote:
>David writes:
>>But I'm jaded by the ephemerality of conference presentations;
>
>Me too. And I'm about ready to say "no" to conference organizers who 
>ask me to present and does not have a way to record and distribute 
>my presentation. Sometimes they will not even allow me to record my 
>own session and distribute it. In the past some conferences have had 
>a company that audio records all presentations and then sells the 
>tapes--that's good!
>
>The FlashMeeting 'tool' I have been using for my live video 
>conferences was developed exactly for this sort of peer-to-peer 
>horizontal distribution of knowledge. It was developed by the 
>Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University in the UK. 
>FlashMeeting is easy to figure out and use, if I could do it anyone 
>could. You can pre-load slide shows, show prerecorded videos, and of 
>course, live interactive video discussions. Hundreds of Thousands, 
>world wide, have viewed recordings of my sessions. The FlashMeeting 
>system is available for free use via their Open Learn system. Learn 
>more about FlashMeeting here:
>
>http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/index.html
>
>If you want me to set up a session, or series of sessions for you on 
>my account just let me know.
>
>The Open Learn system is a wider distance-learning support system 
>that has some useful features. Available for free use by anyone 
>working as an educator or student. Learn about it here:
>
>http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
>
>I think you have to sign up at OpenLearn to get an account to book 
>FlashMeetings. Participants at a flashmeeting don't have to have an 
>account, they can just log in a meeting.
>
>Last year I gave sessions on how to do this at the National Trust 
>conference, and at the Computing in History conference.
>
> > And I wonder whether conferences, in the format to which we are
> > accustomed, are going to be ecologically sustainable for many more
> > years.  The carbon footprint for travel to conferences represents a
> > significant proportion of one's individual annual carbon footprint ...
> > so even if you 'offset the carbon' - which you could do and then not
> >
>
>The FlashMeeting system calculates the carbon footprint of a meeting 
>and shows the CO2 saved based on the location of participants and 
>displays it on the entry page for a meeting:
>http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/f14c4e-9541
>
> > soliciting tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars in sponsorship,
> > don't know where the money for the recording and editing and
> > distribution of these podcasts is going to come from
>
>To put this in plain words: If I can find the very limited funds and 
>time needed to do this in my one-person business, any outfit or 
>event could do it. All you face is the cost of acquisition and that 
>will be low because you probably already have the equipment needed. 
>Don't do editing, and distribution is essentially free. To make live 
>distribution of a session at the National Trust conference happen 
>all I had to do was buy a $60 webcam and send it to my colleague who 
>was at the conference. All he did was plug it into his notebook 
>computer and link up to the internet via WiFi. That same setup could 
>have broadcast and recorded two or three dozen other sessions at the 
>conference. Cost per session? about 2 bucks. Don't have 60 bucks? 
>Find someone at the conference who has a camera built into their 
>notebook, or their cell phone.
>
>The reasons to do this are far more compelling that the reasons not to do it.
>
>So, get busy and do the boogaloo.
>
>John
>by hammer and hand
>by cam and light
>
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