Mark John Hiemstra is a writer and marketer who's had a lifelong obsession with broadcasting technology — from FM and UHF to DAB and UHD. A writer by day and a reader by night, he is loathe to discuss himself in the third person, but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.
We live an amazing time. We have the ability to reach billions of people with our messages. The world is online, and, as a means of adjusting to the new reality we live in, more and more churches are spreading their message with online video. And they now have powerful video analytics to help guide their messages. But what analytics [...]
Those of you who work in the business of streaming video have probably heard about the SRT open-source protocol by now. For those of you who haven’t, here’s a quick primer. SRT stands for Secure Reliable Transport, and was developed by Haivision in 2012. SRT is simply a protocol that helps people send high-quality, secure video over unreliable public networks, [...]
The one thing that you can always count on with technology is that there will be better options soon. Sometimes sooner than we think. Video is moving at a rapid pace, and the ability to send higher quality video over fiber and high bandwidth IP represents a new and exciting paradigm for content providers. As technology progresses, both those in the [...]
In any large organization, the process of communicating with employees can often be a daunting task. Add to that the need for customer/client satisfaction, and you’ve got a lot of communications that can only be described as crucial. So how do you go about making sure that your employees AND your customers are getting the messages they need in a [...]
When you’re a company the size of LinkedIn, and you have offices in 30 different cities, you need a solid means of communicating with everyone. The executives at LinkedIn rely on live video to be able to reach their employees, instead of just sending out large email blasts that people may or may not read. They’re investing in the infrastructure [...]
