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Streaming media delivers the depth, interactivity, and fast access today’s online audiences’ expect from online communication. MediaManager is specifically designed to provide government agencies with automated tools to capture and deliver streaming media productions over the Web live and on-demand—including, public meetings, special events, community programs, emergency broadcasts, and other critical public information. Agencies are increasingly adopting streaming media to increase transparency, enhance public communication, and to encourage broader citizen involvement in the democratic process.

How MediaManager can help:

• Engage wide audiences with high-quality, user-friendly streaming media content.
• Expand public access with live, on-demand, and mobile streaming distribution.
• Maximize transparency and public awareness by streaming public meetings and other mission critical communication.
• Create a one-stop-shop media portal for audiences to easily research and stay involved in government and community issues.
• Lower costs by leveraging one streaming platform and hosted infrastructure enterprise-wide.
• Promote your message and brand with customized website and player templates.
• Achieve ADA compliance with closed captioning support.

Quickly connect citizens to information about their government and community by building an on-demand and searchable Media Portal on your Website.

Easily capture and broadcast rich live and on-demand streaming

MediaManager provides staff with a simple, automated process to capture and broadcast any event—public meetings, events, speeches, announcements, or educational programs—live and on-demand over the Web. Instead of dealing with complex, hands-on streaming processes, MediaManager leverages Outcast Encoder to help you automatically capture live audio/video from your existing on-site cameras,or pre-recorded videos, such as DVD or VHS, and convert it into a digital format that’s ready for Web distribution. The encoding process is automated and secure—requiring minimal staff time. MediaManager also lets you manage your streaming preferences: control the broadcast yourself, schedule an automated live or on-demand broadcast, or schedule a reoccurring schedule for your broadcasts to occur automatically.

Expand the reach of your communication at a low cost

MediaManager is a fully hosted and managed Software as a Service ("SaaS") solution that helps governments eliminate costly bandwidth and infrastructure changes required by traditional streaming solutions. Our hosted model gives agencies unlimited bandwidth and other flexible distribution and storage options to ensure optimum live and on-demand streaming performance for local and global audiences. Also, because MediaManager is a centralized Web-based platform, staff from different departments and locations across your organization are empowered to easily control their own media content, while sharing hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth resources from a single system. These benefits provide you with a low total cost of ownership.

Create a compelling streaming experience: advanced indexing and linking

Create and deliver a rich and interactive viewing or listening experience—without requiring technical skills or manual effort. MediaManager provides video content management tools that enable you to quickly trim videos, link documents, and create index points or timestamps in your video recordings. Indexing your video provides for a more engaging presentation: users can quickly use the index points or time-stamps to navigate to watch and listen to a particular discussion item that interests them most. We make indexing easier on staff. Instead of manually typing index titles like most indexing tools, our agenda parser converts your agenda document text into a digital format ready for time-stamping against your audio/video media recording. Advanced document linking also allows you to synchronize additional layers of content with your video content. As a result, users can educate themselves with video and documents quickly and easily from one location.

Stream a variety of cable access channels, programs, and events live through one interface.

Citizens can easily view archived videos of public meetings — including, council, board, planning and zoning — to assist with research of past issues.

Save time with automated parsing and live media indexing

Instead of manually typing index titles like traditional video indexing technologies, MediaManager provides you with an agenda parser to automatically convert agenda text into a digital format ready for time-stamping—before, during, or after your event. Staff saves additional time by choosing to index their streaming recording live as the event takes place. As the event occurs, staff can use our live indexing tool to create time-stamps in the streaming production with the simple click of the button. Outcast Encoder captures this data and synchronizes it back into MediaManager for you to edit before publishing it to the Web.

Attract audiences with customizable media player and website integration options

MediaManager solutions offers industry-leading website integration options to ensure audiences can quickly and easily locate information in your robust library of streaming media content. Our experts help you organize your streaming archive, or Media Portal, in ways best suited for your audience and your content needs. Also, our customizable Media Player helps you deliver a compelling streaming production to viewers complete with synchronized documents, closed captioning, and share functionality. The look and feel of your Media Player and Media Portal options can be designed to match your existing website and brand so citizens and staff experience consist communication.

By incorporating time-stamps with your videos, viewers can easily navigate to specific discussion topics they are interested in watching.

From one easy-to-use interface, citizens can watch live or on-demand government programs like Mayor press conferences, featured programs, or public meetings.

Expand your audience with media share and publishing functions

Encourage staff and citizens to share your streaming content with others by adding bookmarking and share functionality to your Media Player. It’s a simple way to ensure your messages can be received by the widest possible audience. Also, publishing your streaming content across multiple Webpages and sharing unique HTML links with friends is also easy with MediaManager. Our advanced publishing tools enable you to create unique html links to your video content or embed it directly into Webpages quickly and easily.

Integrate streaming media with your public meeting process

MediaManager, combined with our MinutesMaker or VoteCast products, offers governments an end-to-end solution to build transparency and efficiency. Meeting agendas can be instantly loaded into MediaManager to assist Clerk’s during the live meeting environment. LiveManager helps the Clerk record meeting actions using LiveManager to create index points in the audio/video public meeting recording and creates a digital minutes document. The end result is a rich media minutes document that’s hyperlinked to the streaming recording. Hundreds of governments use this format to give citizens a complete portrait of the context and intent behind decision-making.

Easily track streaming usage with real-time reporting

Instantly measure the success of your streaming programs with live and archived viewership reporting. MediaManager gives you the flexibility instantly report on the popularity of your live or on-demand content and analyze where most your viewer traffic is coming from—over a customizable date range.

Automate live broadcasts or recordings with our event scheduling and management tools.

Save time finalizing and delivering your archived media to public audiences with advanced video archive management tools that uses a folder structure to quickly create, organize, and set streaming properties for your archived events.

Use video archive editing controls to enrich your end-user experience by editing index items, trimming dead air, or adding more associated documents to your streaming production.

Measure the success of your online video with the live and archived usage reporting tool in MediaManager.