Call for speakers

We’re pleased to announce the call for speakers for UNLEASH 2010! Your participation in our annual gathering of Mediasite users is key to making the event an annual success.

This year’s conference provides several opportunities to share your expertise through application-, technology- or strategy-focused sessions or panel discussions. Pick a format that best suits your experience with Mediasite, and feel free to submit more than one speaking proposal. For an idea of previous UNLEASH sessions, check out catalogs of select 2008 and 2009 presentations.

Application focus

Showcase how your organization uses Mediasite for elearning, training, communication or outreach:

• What challenges has Mediasite helped you address?
• What examples can you show to highlight your implementation? Attendees love seeing actual content or samples of real-life implementations.
• What lessons learned or best practices can you share?
• What value or return on investment does your organization experience with Mediasite?
• What’s in store for your future plans with Mediasite?

Technology focus

Demonstrate your best practices, tips and tricks for implementing or integrating Mediasite. Here are a few topic ideas, but don’t let these limit you. Be creative and share your successes! Again, attendees love seeing actual content or virtual tours of technical implementations.

• Streamlining and managing multi-room/multi-Recorder content capture
• Integrating Mediasite with a course/learning management system or other content portal
• AV production tips, tricks and tools of the trade
• Planning and executing a large-scale Mediasite deployment
• Integrating Mediasite with videoconferencing
• Webcasting on a budget – economic AV and technology solutions for Mediasite
• Planning and executing successful live events
• Virtual tour of well-designed rich media studios or learning spaces
• Integrating Mediasite with testing or assessment tools
• Resource and staffing considerations for Mediasite
• Integrating Mediasite with e-commerce
• Mediasite in a Web 2.0 world
  

Strategy focus

Share your strategies for planning and expanding your Mediasite implementation. We’ve listed a few topic ideas to get you started, but the possibilities are endless.

• Promoting and broadening Mediasite use to new groups of users
• Proving the value or ROI of Mediasite to expand adoption
• Your own research results associated to learning outcomes, student retention, classroom attendance, faculty adoption and more
• Strategic planning and funding for long-term webcasting/lecture capture initiatives
• Collaborating with IT to support Mediasite
• Evolving traditional teaching or training practices to take advantage of rich media
• Effectively training and supporting Mediasite users or faculty
• Mediasite’s role in green or sustainability initiatives
  

Panel discussions

Panel discussions addressing a topic from several points of view or through different implementation examples are always a conference highlight. This year we’re seeking panelists for a select number of topics (to be announced soon). If you are interested in participating as a panelist, or have specific panel topic ideas, contact Kristin Zurovitch immediately via email or at 608.443.1634.

We strongly encourage you to submit your proposal early, as we have limited speaking slots available and acceptance to speak automatically waives your full conference registration fee, a $595.00 value! (one complimentary registration per speaking proposal)