Harrisonburg Streams Council Meetings Online
Check out Kai's post on the new option to watch Harrisonburg Council meetings live on-line. If you can't make it out to the actual meeting you can still stay involved with the leadership in your community. You can update your friends through social media and you can see archived videos.
I'm excited to write this post, having been anticipating the day when I and residents in Harrisonburg could not only stream online live city council meetings but also easily access archived video. This past Tuesday marked the first live-streamed Harrisonburg City Council meeting. But, there are some very exciting and useful tools in addition to simple streaming.
The platform city council is using lets users take out snippets of the meetings and easily get links and embed code to share a specific portion of the meeting with friends via email, in social networks, and on blogs.
The video tool allows users to not only see the video, but access the same documents received by council and skip to agenda items of most interest.
Check it out - here's where I mentioned these new tools at the end of Tuesday's meeting (I admit, it's not the most exciting cinematography!).
Press Release from the City of Harrisonburg:July 11, 2011 For Immediate Release ...Harrisonburg Partners with Granicus to Stream Public Meetings OnlineCity strengthens government transparency with access to live and archived meetings on its websiteHarrisonburg, VA – Beginning on July 12, 2011, residents can watch city council meetings live and on demand through the city’s website at www.HarrisonburgVA.gov/agendas.Streaming meetings allows residents who are unable to attend live or watch through the public access channel to view meetings when convenient.Increasingly over the years, streaming video of council meetings has been something that our community has requested,” said Mayor Richard Baugh. “This addition to our capabilities will help us reach more of our citizens on their schedules and with the ability to focus on the issues that matter to them. It will help us continue our efforts to increase transparency and civic engagement.”Harrisonburg recently deployed Granicus’ Open Platform and Government Transparency Suite, providing citizens with searchable archives of public meetings and events.Viewers will have access to supporting materials (displayed alongside the video) and the ability to jump to particular items of interest through the documents and an indexed drop‐down box below the video. Archived meetings are available as MP3 (audio) and MP4 (video) downloads. Viewers can also share videos over popular social networking sites as well as copy and embed portions of a meeting, or an entire video, through the player itself.A number of Virginia communities are already using Granicus to share video with their communities, including Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Blacksburg.About GranicusGranicus is the leading government cloud computing provider for transparency, efficiency, legislative management and citizen participation solutions in the U.S. It offers the first cloud platform and product suites designed specifically to help government agencies establish meaningful connections with citizens.Granicus hosts the world’s largest government‐exclusive webcasting network, streaming over 30 million webcasts and serving more than 900 clients spanning all 50 states.###
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