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Google rolls out Video Sitemaps

Google is keen to index video content and have been publicising Video Sitemaps as a way to create better searches.

Nelson Lee, Video Search Product Manager, explains how:

Agtel Streams Live Event for Enterprise Ireland

Last month Agtel had the opportunity to stream a live broadcast from the Enterprise Ireland headquarters in Dublin using an innovative streaming technology. In conjunction with Tyrell CCT  we demonstrated Live U, the ‘Satellite truck in a backpack’, from the SME event, part of a series of eight business finance seminars hosted for Irish SMEs. LiveU has developed a revolutionary hand-held video uplink device that enables anyone to broadcast live video instantly, anytime, anywhere. Tyrell CCT was recently awarded the exclusive Irish distribution of this innovative mobile video delivery solution. This technology preview demonstrated the outstanding quality and `reliability of broadcasting via 3G networks with the entire seminar delivered live to viewers in Enterprise Ireland offices around the world.
 
Organised  by  Enterprise  Ireland,  the Small Firms Association, IBEC, the Irish  Taxation  Institute  and  the County Enterprise Boards, the SME seminar series was developed to assist SMEs to gain a greater understanding of  financial, employment, tax and business supports information to manage and grow their business. The Dublin seminar, which coincided with European SME week, was host to a number of high profile speakers including the Minister for Trade and Commerce, Billy Kelleher.  Tyrell CCT provided Agtel with the LiveU LU30 backpack system and offsite technical backup to broadcast the Dublin based event in real-time to a global Enterprise Ireland audience. Viewers in locations ranging from Milan, Stockholm and Tokyo provided live feedback via web chat facility and testified to the picture and sound quality. Following the keynote speeches the Agtel cameraman equipped solely with the LU30 backpack conducted a Vox Pop style session with the seminar delegates moving easily around the venue, including the underground car park, to push the limits of the technology.
 
“The use of the LiveU technology at our Dublin event was very valuable as we were able to connect with our colleagues in global Enterprise Ireland offices in real-time and provide them with key information and on-the-ground insights from the SME community in Ireland”, commented Alan Hobbs, Head of Communications, Enterprise Ireland.  “We were particularly impressed with the immediacy of service and high quality picture and sound. It is very easy to see how this technology could make a big difference to Irish companies connecting with their audiences worldwide.”
 
“In today’s dynamic business environment, every organisation is a media company with a need to communicate with their customers, business partners, shareholders and staff,” according to John Cummins, Managing Director, Agtel. “LiveU offers organisations of all sizes an affordable option to transform their communication strategy and reach large audiences by delivering live feeds and videos on their websites. We found the system very easy to set up and use -from arrival on location, the live broadcast can be accomplished literally in a minute or two.”

The broadcast was streamed with Livestream and is available here.

New Videos Inspire Young People to Set Up Own Businesses

With so much doom and gloom around, it’s been great to work on a series of inspiring videos for the Student Enterprise Awards recently. Every year, over 10,000 students from all over the country set up their own companies in school as part of the competition. The prizes are pretty impressive too - €1,500 is up for grabs, along with an all-expenses paid trip to Europe worth over €10,000.
 
We started off by filming the students taking part in the national finals, and their enthusiasm was so great that we’d no problem creating high-energy, motivating and fascinating video profiles of some of the best projects. Those video profiles are up on-line on the Student Enterprise Awards website: www.studententerprise.ie
 
Live on that site you’ll also find the first in our series of business skills videos which are designed for classroom use by teachers – videos that cover many topics that are hard to teach using text books. Building on our experience of educational projects which take a “problem-based learning” approach, they’re divided into three segments so that teachers can use them to kick off discussion in the classroom without giving the answers away.
 
The first video that’s up on www.studententerprise.ie covers idea generation and brainstorming techniques, and it will soon be followed by other fast paced videos covering areas like people skills and branding. Bringing these topics to life was no problem because of the talent of the young actors involved – and the drama scenes we filmed with them really help crystallise some of the main learning points.
 
These projects are all part of our on-going work with the County & City Enterprise Boards. And who knows, maybe someone watching these videos will set up The Next Big Thing…