Presentations Online PoCO

July 2009

Presentations Online Adhoc CommitteeRon Jensen Chair

CommitteeVolunteers– Ron Jensen, Chair – John Barr – Russ Lefevre – Dru Reynolds – Ed Rezek – Mitch Rothblatt – Anil Roy – Tim Tredwell – Cheri Warren  

Staff– Mark A. Vasquez – Kevin Dresely – David Rogers – Susan Root – Scott R. Smith

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Meet every 3 weeks, plus additional discussions

What are they?Powerpoint presentations with synchronized audio from presenterRecorded at conferences and other venuesBrowser accessFor freeFor saleFor benefit of

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Strategic OpportunitiesConferences– Sets a new long-term direction for how we can conduct conferences in

the future.– Enhance conference attendee experience (access to all tracks and

review)– Enable other conference experiences

Sub conferences (location and time shifts)– Potential option for pandemics, lowered travel budgets, …

Access to conferences without travelSocieties, Regions, Sections, Chapters, Members– Stronger technical program to members through local units– Increase society membership benefits– Distinguished lecturers available to more units and members– Practicing engineer presentations and workshops – Stronger Professional content from IEEE-USA, Regions and Section– Enhance Volunteer experience with training available as needed

Revenue development– Protects IEEEs largest revenue source – Conferences more profitable through greater access– New products as a result of new IP format

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StatusBusiness Model- first pass to support pilotDeveloped procedures for a pilot

– Training– Recording– Loading

Infrastructure– Selected Camtasia for IMS and PoCO– Load presentations to Akamai– Load products to BMS for purchase– IEEE.tv to view

Great team effort– Staff from across the company (Meetings & Conferences, IT, MGA,

Marketing, Corporate Research, Product Management, Society Executive Offices, etc.) have dedicated resources to various aspects of the project.

More qualitative data after IMS pilot and PoCO – Information on the sales of IMS 2009– resources needed to handle the recording of a conference or other event– cost associated with doing such recordings.

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LinksIMS Pilot (June 2009)– IMS 2009 web site with links– Free presentations

Plenary Microapps which are presentations from industry ~ 20

minutes each Served from IMS/MTT web site

– For sale presentations Sold through BMS Delivered through IEEE.tv with a new tab for purchased

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Humanitarian Technology Challenge Conference 6/1-2– Recorded some content

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Feedback?Ideas?

Thoughts?Suggestions?

Work ItemsDetermination of the products that are possible and select correct set for IEEEThe potential markets for products (conference attendees, society members, members, individuals, corporations)Relationship to EAB products, could some presentations/workshops be sold as part of an education product?Search- how do people find what we have, how are they categorized, tagged, what search engine and how do you get to it?Can adding products be automated to minimize cost? Conversely, how do we control to prevent “spam”?The non profit products for member benefit or training, how offered, how paid for, does the business model support ad hoc products from a myriad of sourcesThe file structures that can be supported, implying which methods of recordingHow do we make the selected tools available so everyone uses the preferred set.Avoiding units using other channels as we don’t support their needsDeveloping a plan for quality, do we use standards? do we mark quality?What is the appropriate timing to make new recordings available? (within the hour, not for 2 months, or both, does it vary by product)Training plan for volunteers who will be recording without staff support

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