I’ve been pretty busy these past two days webcasting at Grand Valley – yesterday I setup before the bug MLK event in the fieldhouse featuring Juan Williams from NPR and CNN. We couldn’t work out the details to stream the event online, so I spent the time after setup testing all the remote viewing areas for today’s webcast. I’m glad I didn’t have to webcast the Juan Williams speech – I was able to pay a bit more attention and really enjoyed his address.
Today marked the big America United celebration at Grand Valley, featuring pre-inauguration speakers and the live telecast of the PBS inauguration coverage. The webcast went pretty well, but I wish I could have just been in the audience so that I could have followed more closely what everyone else got to watch. I have to keep an eye on the streaming version of the event so my audio is always 20 seconds or so behind what I am watching live. Today’s setup was pretty big – two big 20′ screens with the live coverage meant there wasn’t a bad seat in the house.
The turnout was great and it was very cool to join about 1500 people at the Fieldhouse to watch Obama being sworn in and the following address to the nation. Political views aside, I have always found Obama very refreshing and motivating – I really hope he is able to make amazing things happen!