Online Tech Talk Coming Soon

You are invited to participate in the first-ever streamed broadcast and interactive tech talk hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 28th at 7:00 p.m. mountain daylight time (MDT).

Previously, tech talks were held regionally in various locations across the United States to communicate Church technology projects and needs. We are ready to expand those tech talks to reach a global audience simultaneously.

In addition to providing real-time interaction, this event will be archived at LDS Tech for additional viewings. We hope that this becomes the first of many global tech talks.

As this concept is still a work in progress, you have the opportunity to help the Church mold the best possible experience. We are open to everything from branding and marketing concepts (including names and logos), to format and frequency options, to future discussion topics and ideas.

At the first global tech talk, to be held on August 28th at 7:00 p.m. mountain daylight time (MDT), Joel Dehlin, Chief Information Officer for the Church, will speak in more detail about the purpose of tech talks and his vision for them. He will also answer in real time your questions on technology at the Church.

More information about registering for this event will be posted here.

telfordca wrote:You are invited to participate in the first-ever streamed broadcast and interactive tech talk hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 28th at 7:00 p.m. mountain standard time.

I am looking forward to this, and I think the new format will allow many more people to participate.

One clarification: I would really doubt that it is at the time specified, but rather is at 7pm Mountain Daylight Time. Since Arizona is actually on Mountain Standard Time (their 7pm is one hour later), the way it is stated could easily be confusing.

Thanks for pointing that out!

Do you have details on what the streaming experience will be like? What format or technology will it be broadcast through? I'm not at all familiar with the different choices, especially those that would allow interactive question submitting.

I have participated in Microsoft Webcasts before and used Office Live Meeting 2007 (which did have this question submitting functionality). It was a really nice experience and the client application for us as the community is completely free. I don't think it's free to the Church though, those who are doing the presenting. This is the only product I'm familiar with.

This is why I'm interested in what has been (or is being) chosen, especially if there are some free options out there.

Also, don't forget to put it on the Community Calendar here on the Forums!

Is it possible to view the presentation by a streaming broadcast and receive questions using these forums? Other systems I have used required phone connections for asking questions, and some systems require microphones set up on computers which many people do not have. Using the forums to type questions seems like a good use of resources.

I'm psyched for another tech talk! I'm marking it on my calendar. The one in the San Jose Bay Area was phenomenal.

Another option to consider for presenting the meeting might be Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. A while back I attended a webcast using this technology and I was impressed. Users can submit questions real-time via a chat window.

I just found the old email invitation and it lists the requirements: "You'll need a computer that supports audio, a web browser, the Adobe Flash player and an Internet connection. Please review the full Acrobat Connect technical requirements at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatco ... ystemreqs/"

I look forward to more information on the tech talk!

Kathryn

People from international "non English" areas are invited to???

MorettiDP wrote:People from international "non English" areas are invited to???

I'm not an employee of the Church, but I think the answer is definitely "Yes!"

It will be a streamed presentation that anyone with Internet access can watch and participate in. I think the whole Tech Talk will be held in English with no official translation, but please, still feel free to participate!

mkmurray wrote:I'm not an employee of the Church, but I think the answer is definitely "Yes!"

It will be a streamed presentation that anyone with Internet access can watch and participate in. I think the whole Tech Talk will be held in English with no official translation, but please, still feel free to participate!

This is correct. Anyone can participate.

Tom

mkmurray wrote:I'm not an employee of the Church, but I think the answer is definitely "Yes!"

It will be a streamed presentation that anyone with Internet access can watch and participate in. I think the whole Tech Talk will be held in English with no official translation, but please, still feel free to participate!

mkmurray: What do you mean by "participate?" Will there be a simultaneous chat going on or will there be some way for the moderator to allow participants to speak to everyone?

Brad O. wrote:mkmurray: What do you mean by "participate?" Will there be a simultaneous chat going on or will there be some way for the moderator to allow participants to speak to everyone?

This is a quote from the orginal post that started the thread:

In addition to providing real-time interaction, this event will be archived at LDS Tech for additional viewings. We hope that this becomes the first of many global tech talks.

As this concept is still a work in progress, you have the opportunity to help the Church mold the best possible experience. We are open to everything from branding and marketing concepts (including names and logos), to format and frequency options, to future discussion topics and ideas.

At the first global tech talk, to be held on August 28th at 7:00 p.m. mountain daylight time (MDT), Joel Dehlin, Chief Information Officer for the Church, will speak in more detail about the purpose of tech talks and his vision for them. He will also answer in real time your questions on technology at the Church.

I don't know anything more than this.

For this first tech talk there will not be a chat feature. However, you will be able to come to these forums and discuss the event while it is taking place, or after.

You will have the ability to submit questions to a moderator during the tech talk.

telfordca wrote:You will have the ability to submit questions to a moderator during the tech talk.

Via the forum?

Is it possible that you would be interested in creating this tech-talk as a facebook event that we could invite our techie LDS friends from around the world to? Unfortunately the time for this event isn't condusive to much attendance from the side of the world I would be inviting people from, but I'd like to invite them anyway. Perhaps the next one scheduled could alternate the time so that Eastern Europe could be involved also? I understand you have to make it sometime and it won't meet everyone's needs, but if they keep being moved around, or are provided in pairs, then it would be possible for more regions to make it to at least one live. Thanks.

dobrichelovek wrote:Is it possible that you would be interested in creating this tech-talk as a facebook event that we could invite our techie LDS friends from around the world to?

Also a message could be sent to all of the LinkedIn group.

dobrichelovek wrote:Unfortunately the time for this event isn't condusive to much attendance from the side of the world I would be inviting people from, but I'd like to invite them anyway. Perhaps the next one scheduled could alternate the time so that Eastern Europe could be involved also? I understand you have to make it sometime and it won't meet everyone's needs, but if they keep being moved around, or are provided in pairs, then it would be possible for more regions to make it to at least one live. Thanks.

This doesn't solve the problem, but as a consolation prize, the streamed presentation will be recorded and archived for later viewing.

The exact method of submitting the question isn't yet determined. I'm sorry I can't yet give you more information about that. However, I will be starting a thread in a moment to capture questions before hand. We would appreciate it if you'd post them there too. You will still be able to submit them during the tech talk.

dobrichelovek, are you interested in starting this group yourself or is this something you'd like us to do? I'm interested in it either way.

mkmurray, we're considering linkedin However, LDSConntected is not a tech specific group.

telfordca wrote: mkmurray, we're considering linkedin However, LDSConntected is not a tech specific group.

I still think that sending something to LDSConnected is a good idea. People who are not techy will just ignore the announcement.

Tom

If you'd like to send an invitation to friends through Facebook, here is the link.

Will the Tech Talk be recorded and made available so those that were not able to see it live can see the recorded version later.

GarysTurn wrote:Will the Tech Talk be recorded and made available so those that were not able to see it live can see the recorded version later.

I know I saw this somewhere in someone's post or in the announcement on the homepage, but I remember the answer being "Yes", I thought...

You will have the opportunity to watch it afterward as well.

I received an e-mail today from Tom Welch, inviting me to participate in the Tech Talk, and providing the same registration details that Cassie just posted on the front page of LDS Tech. I imagine many of us received the same message -- I'm guessing it was sent to registered users on this site. So the communication process is proceeding, and I am looking forward to the Tech Talk!

Alan_Brown wrote:I received an e-mail today from Tom Welch, inviting me to participate in the Tech Talk, and providing the same registration details that Cassie just posted on the front page of LDS Tech. I imagine many of us received the same message -- I'm guessing it was sent to registered users on this site. So the communication process is proceeding, and I am looking forward to the Tech Talk!

Yes, I have a question about the streaming link listed in the email. For kicks, I clicked on it to see what it's streaming. Apparently, BYU TV is streaming at that link as we speak. I wasn't aware BYU TV was being streamed for anyone to watch at anytime; is that true?

And then I guess my follow-up question is if the Tech Talk streaming link will always stream BYU TV when not in use for Tech Talks? Or is the Tech Talk somehow being broadcast over BYU TV?! (not likely)

Thanks.

mkmurray wrote:Yes, I have a question about the streaming link listed in the email. For kicks, I clicked on it to see what it's streaming. Apparently, BYU TV is streaming at that link as we speak. I wasn't aware BYU TV was being streamed for anyone to watch at anytime; is that true?

And then I guess my follow-up question is if the Tech Talk streaming link will always stream BYU TV when not in use for Tech Talks? Or is the Tech Talk somehow being broadcast over BYU TV?! (not likely)

Thanks.

I wouldn't worry too much about what is streaming right now. Indeed, BYU TV is always streaming (see http://www.byutv.org/streaming/).

The particular URL for the Tech Talk does include /techtalk. I imagine it just redirects to BYU TV for now at this point, but I'm confident it will direct to the right stream when the time comes.

Yes it will, don't worry about that!

Unfortunately, I do not have easy access to a computer with a windows operating system. All the computers I use have Ubuntu Linux as their operating system. That being the case I will not be able to attend the tech talk due to it being broadcast using the (excellent) gotomeeting.com service.

If staying with Gotomeeting is not imperative for some reason, I suggest using another service which has wider operating system compatibility for the next tech talk. One that I know of is webex and it is excellent as well.

Thank you for offering the tech talk!

In response to those local being off the meeting. . .

Caveat Emptor (sp?) meaning buyer beware--was a phrase I learned in business law years ago and I pull it our when I'm teaching classes now and then where similarly applicable.

Caveat Emptor applies to the Internet--slow bandwidth happens and who is to say it's on the origination. Everyone wherever they are down the street or around the world should have opportunity to be in.

From the forum above:

Stream will be in windows media format
Here is a note to Mac users:

The stream for the online tech talk will be in windows media format. To view this event, you will need to obtain a plugin beforehand.
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-Cassie

My point exactly. Too much dependence on Microsoft applications in my opinion.....

mikengray wrote:My point exactly. Too much dependence on Microsoft applications in my opinion.....

Let's try to keep this thread focused on the Tech Talk. (Just trying to avoid a discussion or debate that we've already had on other threads on these forums)

I'll follow tech talk with a Linux machine.
I had no problems to register, but I'm thinking I'll have following the talk! Is this correct?
If I know exactly how it will be held I can search for a solution!
I've 5 full days for that!!!!

marianomarini_vi wrote:I'll follow tech talk with a Linux machine.
I had no problems to register, but I'm thinking I'll have following the talk! Is this correct?
If I know exactly how it will be held I can search for a solution!
I've 5 full days for that!!!!

The streaming is via a RealVideo OR Microsoft Video stream so you should be able to get a solution on Linux that works. For the live Q&A section where you can post questions, we are using GotoMeeting. It may be a java app so you may be able to get it to work with Linux as well.

Tom

Thanks a lot. I'll check now.

I check it out. I installed gmlayer and so I can see WMF file.
My question now is. Cause I've not chance to follow at 03:00 (Italian time).
Where can I see the stream now?
I found out a link somewhere but it was a SA fireside at BYU!
the link is:
strem.lds.org/techtalk

marianomarini_vi wrote:I check it out. I installed gmlayer and so I can see WMF file.
My question now is. Cause I've not chance to follow at 03:00 (Italian time).
Where can I see the stream now?

Keep watching the http://tech.lds.org website and they will announce when the recorded video is ready. I'm sure we will also announce it here in the forum as well.

Mike