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Category Archives: Webcasting
November 9, 2011, 8:12 am
The Polar Bear Revolution Will Be Televised
Every year an estimated 1,000 polar bears linger outside the small Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba, waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze over so they can start their annual migration. To give Internet viewers a window onto the Arctic scene, a Bozeman, Mont., nonprofit organization is streaming the action live.
Polar Bears International has placed high-definition cameras onto a lodge and a wildlife-viewing vehicle run by Frontiers North Adventures, an adventure-travel company that organizes trips to see the migration. The cameras provide two live streams.
The Hudson Bay has usually been frozen by the second week of November, but last year it didn’t freeze until a month later, a sign of the Arctic warming that threatens polar bears, says Barbara Nielsen, a spokeswoman for Polar Bears International.
“Every week they’re delayed getting onto the sea ice, they’re having…
January 12, 2011, 6:13 pm
Doctors Without Borders Plans Haiti Webcast
Doctors Without Borders is employing another tool in its effort to educate donors and the public about its work in Haiti since the massive earthquake: webcasting.
During a 90-minute webcast, scheduled for Thursday, January 13, at 8 p.m. U.S. Eastern time, officials from the medical charity will discuss how the organization has spent contributions, as well as current conditions in Haiti and efforts to stem the deadly cholera outbreak.
“We’re really trying to raise the bar in terms of the openness and transparency that we provide—not only on what we do but what we chose not to do—and to help people understand how an NGO like ourselves has to make those choices,” says Jason Cone, the group’s director of communications.
Over the last two weeks, the organization has solicited questions via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter. A day before the presentation, the group had already …
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