Haven't seen any posts out there regarding an audio echo issue while streaming live video through JW player. I experienced this here recently while streaming a live event from Florida. Although I have not totally solved the issue, here are some things I have discovered.
Okay, I thought I would put a quick post out on this since I spent over an hour combing forums and sites trying to figure out how to embed a live RTMP flash video stream. I was using the JW longtail player (which I would highly recommend) and was going through their setup wizard and still couldn't get the rtmp stream to work . . . so here is what I found out.
The information I was working with was my server and stream name:
Server: rtmp://video110.techwerks.tv/live
Stream Name: myStream
The main issue was I couldn't figure out how to specify in the code my stream name. Finally, I figured out that your "stream name" has to be included right after your server info like this as well as identifying the "type" of stream it is which in this case is "rtmp".
Here is the line of code that identifies the server and stream name:
rtmp://video110.techwerks.tv/live&file=myStream&type=rtmp
Once I figured this bit of code out, the JW player worked great. You can check out the full code on the page I setup at: http://www.lifeaction.org/hcclive if you would like to see it in action . . . just click on view source to check it out. Hope you find this helpful. Happy streaming!
Every designer needs frequent inspiration. Here are some great sites for design inspiration. If you have some places you frequent for design inspiration . . . post a comment and let us know where those are!
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
http://thedesigninspiration.com/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
http://www.noupe.com/category/design
Using social media to communicate to your audience can be very effective. However, there are other uses for social media that might be easy to overlook. One of those is focusing on using social media to boost your organization's search rankings. As you build followers through social media through consistent posts, tweets, social bookmarks, and more, each of these social sites are "spidered" by search engines resulting in better exposure of your brand.
If you are looking for ways to boost your search engine rankings through social media, you may want to consider the following options:
1. Take advantage of blogging. Blogging consistently, establishing relationships and links with other bloggers, and making your content easy to syndicate is all good for your search engine rankings.
2. Use social bookmarking. Offering quick links to social bookmarking (such as delicious) on your website is another way to increase your exposure. As links to web pages are saved, web crawlers find them resulting in more links back to your site which increases your page placement!
3. Use Facebook and Twitter consistently! Raise the visibility of your brand and engage with your audience on these popular social network sites. Doing this will create more buzz about your brand and create more links and conversation relating to your oraganization. This will create additional links back to your site in the popular search engines.
4. Tag photos and videos. Take some time to upload your photos and videos to popular places such as Flickr and YouTube. With this content in place, people who do searches for video or photos through Google will find you! Uploading your media is a great way add just another way for people to find you in search engines. (Just be sure the media you use isn't out of date and give you a bad image!)
These are just a few ways to use some of the more popular social networking sites to improve your search engine rankings. For more on this subject check out the August issue of the .net magazine which inspired this post.
Finally, a disclaimer that is actually worth reading! Recently my old Macbook Pro battery swelled and look at what I found as the disclaimer:
"Dispose of properly (or Mother Nature's gonna whack us all!) This battery contains no Mercury, Venus, or Mars :>). Warning: To reduce the risk of fire or burns, avoid Sony or Dell laptops and do not disassemble, crush, puncture, or short the contacts. All Rights Reserved. All other brand names & trademarks belong to their respective owners."
Disclaimers are never really helpful anyways . . . glad to see some creative out there making good use of space and ink!
One of the greatest ways to communicate to your constituents right now is by tapping into social networking. Most likely, more of your constituents than you might think are probably using Facebook and Twitter to stay in touch with friends, family, and follow things of interest.
As the media and communications manager for a national non-profit, one of the challenges I face is identifying natural ways to communicate to my audience. In other words, where is my audience currently going to stay in touch with people and things they care about? Answering this question helps me identify which outlets I need to be utlizing to get my message heard. Identifying and knowing your audience is a very important factor in determining which outlets to communicate through.
To be honest, I was initially skeptical that our audience 40-65 year olds would be familiar with, let alone connected to online social networking. But we decided to give it a try. We initially focused on brief ministry updates, prayer requests, links to new content, and announcements. We used our website to begin promoting having people "Follow Us" on Twitter and "Connect with Us" on Facebook. We also spent time following as many people as we knew on Twitter and making people aware of our social networking connections at conferences. Within three months, we had over 700 people following us on Twitter and over 400 on Facebook. The social networking trend for us continues to snowball with more than a 30% growth rate each month!
Communicating through social networking channels is a great way to naturally connect with your audience in an outlet where they are already listening. If your skeptical like I was, try taking it for a spin, it might just be the best way you ever communicate with your constituents.
