InterCall offers flexible streaming

CHICAGO – InterCall, a conferencing and collaboration services provider, launched InterCall Streaming, a communications and collaboration tool that enables streaming events to be more interactive, flexible and mobile.

With InterCall Streaming, tools enable the presenter and audience to interact live, ensuring the audience remains engaged with the content. During a training session, for example, the presenter can send out quick polls every few minutes to test participants' understanding of the material. If all poll questions are not answered, a training participant may not receive credit for completing the training.

The tools are a great way for participants to contribute to the presentation. Users can ask questions and respond back to polls about the content which the presenter can react and respond to in real time. They can also participate in group chats during the session. InterCall Streaming also takes advantage of new mobile technologies, integrating SMS polling and social media functionality. Some of the new features include:

• Screen broadcast – Presenters are able to broadcast their desktop, all Flash-based, without any installation required for those viewing.
• Integrated video encoding – Presenters are able to achieve top quality VP6 or H.264 video encoding all within the application without additional steps. Advanced users maintain fine-grained control over encoding, such as bitrate, cropping, processor usage and more.
• Registration engine – An upgrade from the current registration system enables multiple event registration, an advanced landing page, more customizable areas, control over look and feel and much more.
• SMS poll voting – Allows users to vote on polls using a standard text message. This feature is aimed at hybrid meetings or other meetings where the webcast is displayed on a projector or LCD to give participants a way to vote interactively without being in front of their own computer.
• Automatic video in PowerPoint support – Videos in PowerPoint presentations will be encoded and streamed during webcasts.
• Slide and Screen Broadcast zooming and panning – Allows users to zoom in on slide and screen broadcast content, which is great for slides with complex graphs and charts.
• Integrated Twitter feed – Participants can log in to their Twitter accounts from the application's module navigator and Tweet about the event or follow the conversation as it is happening. The Twitter hashtag is inserted in the participant's Tweet.

"We've worked with our customers for years to pinpoint and develop the ideal features to deliver what they need in a streaming solution," said Ben Chodor, senior vice president of InterCall Streaming. "The new InterCall Streaming platform represents this feedback. We're giving customers an intuitive, interactive and customizable streaming experience with superb video quality. This is truly the next step in streaming."

For information about InterCall conferencing services, visit www.intercall.com or contact an InterCall representative at info@intercall.com to learn more.

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