How will the public view your webcasts?

Waverley Borough Council Webcast
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The Public-i Player

• When visitors to your website click on a link to view a video, they will be taken to a special page on your website which plays the clip and has links to other relevant content.

• This is a page hosted by Public-i but you will have complete control over it. You can customise the page with your own Council's branding and information using our simple content management system.

• A media player webcasts your content on this page in the formats you choose, and we make sure the clips are accessible to dial-up modem as well as broadband users.

• We call this page the Public-i Player and you can see many different examples on our Example Webcasts page.

Watching a webcast of a meeting

If you are streaming a council meeting using a Public-i webcasting system, viewers can watch your webcast live with real-time speaker names, agenda points and presentation slides. This ensures all the information required by the viewer is presented at the correct moment of the meeting.

Viewers can also be provided with:

• polls
• surveys
• speaker profiles
• feedback forms
• links to relevant documents or websites

Archived webcasts

Council of the Isles of Scilly Microsite
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After the live event, an archive is made available on your website via the Public-i Player. Viewers are again provided with all the agenda points, speakers, slides and relevant information - exactly as they were presented in the live event. With the archived webcast there is the added bonus that viewers can jump to specific points of the presentation which are relevant to them.

You can see examples of archived webcasts here - and keep an eye on our 'Today's Webcasts' section if you want to view a live event from your computer.

Webcasts are accessible to viewers using both broadband and dial-up modem viewers and can be created in your choice of format - either Real Player or Windows Media Player.

If you have any questions about how webcasts can be accessed or how our systems work, contact us and we'll happily explain how it all works.