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It’s Time to Wake up Your Brand

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A good brand carries a lot of weight. It gives prospects and clients a name to trust, a business an identity to promote, and a name to attach to quality.

That is, of course, only if your company puts its best brand foot forward at every engagement opportunity. Every interaction needs to be high-quality and to make your company shine. Often, this means focusing your efforts on weightier content sources, like webinars, to make your brand and its values stand out.

As the front door to your brand, webinars are uniquely positioned to showcase the maturity of your organization and how it interacts with audiences from across the funnel. Often, this means empowering attendees through interactive events and giving them the ability to craft their own experiences with the brand.

Only the ON24 Engagement Platform arms organizations with the tools to produce interactive, end-to-end brand experiences that leave an impression on audiences.

That’s because when audiences attend a webinar, they’re often expecting a meeting with a presenter, a set of slides, and a half-hour or so of their lives. These are not engaging experiences, and they risk damaging your brand by making it easy for attendees to tune your message out. That lost interest impacts your bottom line. ON24 provides the tools you need to help your brand capture and retain attention across the buyer’s journey.

Virtual events are the first step to capturing audience attention — be they webinars, virtual conferences, or learning centers — and extending your brand’s values. With the ON24 Engagement Platform, colors, logos, in-event widgets and more are easily tailored to reflect the brand style or adapted to coordinate with an integrated campaign. Each element, of course, can be customized to reflect a given topic.

But, more importantly, organizations can use these events and digital tools to give audiences a genuine interaction with your brand and its values — one which puts attendees in control of their experience.

For example, attendees can use ON24 widgets — like Q&A and more — to guide the event’s conversation as it develops. Resource lists, group chats, and even idea-generating brainstorm widgets also provide another two-way street for audiences to interact with your presenters, your team, and your brand.

Deploying these interactive tools can also help your organization extend its presence across both internal and external networks. Social widgets can help thought leaders interact with an event over platforms like Twitter. Email widgets give attendees an easy way to share informative and thought-provoking events with internal colleagues. By providing such a responsive and rich experience, you extend your brand’s voice and digital footprint.

Two-way, branded conversations are critical for businesses today. It gives your organization — whether established or just gaining a foothold — an interactive and professional touch that goes beyond expectations. Exceeding expectation could be the difference between business won and lost in a crowded, competitive digital landscape.

Don’t make it easy for your audience to turn away. Learn how you can make your brand shine with ON24.

To learn more about how you can wake up your webinars and make your brand shine, head on over to www.on24.com/wakeupyourwebinars  or simply click this link .

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Webinar: How Digital Signage can Improve your Employee Engagement

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As businesses of all sizes look to improve their competitiveness and performance, the need for successful strategies to engage employees is proving essential. Digital signage offers a valuable tool in achieving this success.

Ever thought about the possibility of implementing a universal communication method to connect all your employees? What about a unique platform to catch their eyes and nurture a better culture?

The truth is, there is a solution that can deliver on all of these needs while being a simple and easy-to-use platform. Digital Signage visual communication is transforming how employers are communicating with their employees . Interested in seeing how digital signage can impact your company’s effectiveness and engagement?

Check out our INSPIRE Employees engagement digital signage solution

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Webinar: Content is the Key to Great Employee Signage

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Content strategy is critical when it comes to Employee Signage. How you curate the content can make or break your messaging. Additionally, well laid out content can garner more views, increase ROI and morale, and ensure your employees more informed, compliant and trained.

As we continue our corporate communication webinar series, hosts are Ed Behan, Corporate Communications guru at Convergent, Adam Shilling, Creative Director at Convergent and Kris Konrath, Marketing Director at Convergent. Listen in as they discuss the ins and outs of employee signage and how content plays such a large role in the success of this employee communication tool.

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Enterprise Video Delivery from Multiple Platforms

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Many companies are using multiple streaming platforms to support their video communications. How does that impact the enterprise content delivery strategy, and what are some recommendations for dealing with that sort of situation?

When enterprises are looking at streaming platforms, typically they have different buyers with different use cases selecting the platforms. What corporate communications may need from an application for CEO broadcasts may be very different from what the HR or learning and development department needs for training and compliance programs.

Industry research consistently shows more than two thirds of enterprises have more than one streaming platform deployed. So by definition, you want to have something that’s going to work for more than one platform. Be careful not to deploy infrastructure for an application. Remember delivery solutions are part of your network infrastructure, so you want to choose something that’s going to be part of the fabric of the network and support the different streaming protocols, not an application per se.

By choosing common enterprise streaming infrastructure, you will get something that is going to run across the board. It will work with all the streaming applications in use, and even many of the unified communications platforms.

From the Streaming Media webinar Content Delivery Challenges in a New Era.

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Monitoring Enterprise Video Quality of Experience

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Let’s talk a little bit about quality of experience for a moment. What are the best ways organizations can monitor, analyze, and improve the quality of experience for viewers behind the firewall?

Oftentimes, enterprises have plenty of bandwidth on the corporate network for a great quality of service, but the experience breaks down at the pipe getting the video stream from the cloud into the enterprise. Companies deploy some type of enterprise content delivery network (eCDN), whether it is a multicast solution or an intelligent caching solution, to alleviate that congestion at the internet connection and even on the wide area network.

But, unless you are truly measuring the quality of the experience and the quality of service for video delivery, you are kind of just working in the dark. In the enterprise it is really important to have measurable, quantifiable metrics of success. To gather those metrics you need robust diagnostic data and analytics available as part of your video deployment. You need to be able to tell if viewers are experiencing too much buffering. You need to know if fail-over scenarios are being activated due to network issues. You need to know what is really going on, both at the video level and also at the network level.

Network diagnostics, especially with live broadcasting, need to support two main use cases. The first is real-time troubleshooting. Can you identify if any subnets are having issues on a global network fast enough to be able to respond? The second use case is after the fact analysis, assessing an event as a whole and looking to see what can be improved in your delivery strategy.

From the Streaming Media webinar Content Delivery Challenges in a New Era.

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The Best Transport Protocols for HTML5 Video Delivery

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What are the best transport protocols for an HTML5 only environment—MPEG-TS, Apple HLS, or DASH? Let’s talk a little bit about that.

This is really a great question that we get all the time. When we talk to IT organizations or CIOs we hear, “Well, I know I’m going to have an HTML5 video, but what is it that I want to use for a transport? What’s the protocol we’re going to be using?”

The nice thing about having an HTML5 strategy is it supports all of these protocols. And frankly, it’s going to be the platform you choose that will determine what the protocol is going to be. So, for example, if you’re using Microsoft Stream or Teams or Skype for Business, it’s going to be DASH. You can be using any number of other providers, and they may choose to use DASH. Others, like MediaPlatform, will use HLS.

So, when committing to an HTML5 environment, you want to choose an underlying eCDN, common enterprise streaming infrastructure, that will support all the HTML5 transport protocols. That way you can deploy your delivery infrastructure once then not worry anymore about the protocol your platforms support.

From the Streaming Media webinar Content Delivery Challenges in a New Era.

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