Santa Rosa: Making the Move to Mobile Streaming Meeting Video

The City of Santa Rosa recently executed a strategy to increase reach, functionality, and accessibility of our open government video program: the online broadcast of meetings. The mobile video revolution is well underway, and now people need to access their government through their mobile devices. When it comes reaching the broadest possible public audience, your strategy’s best friend is a technology standard. For video, mobile or otherwise, that standard is H.264.

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Next-Gen Government: Top 5 Technology Characteristics

As government continues to face budgetary constraints and rising expectations from their community, Granicus hosted a webinar this week to help agencies kick start their “next generation” technology strategies to mitigate these challenges. I’m going to provide a quick recap of some of the key points we discussed during this webinar. If you’d like, you can simply watch the recording by clicking here.

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55% of 2011 Digital Cities Winners Use Granicus Technologies

The Center for Digital Government and Government Technology magazine (GovTech.com) recently released its 11^th annual Digital Cities survey spotlighting the municipalities that best show how information and communication technology are used to enhance public service. I’m pleased to report that cities using Granicus solutions for open government and citizen engagement took home half of the first place winners and 55% of all winners.

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Webinar Recap – Discover Granicus Product Suites

If you’re interested in adding video and other citizen collaboration tools onto your existing Legistar® agenda management solution or if you’re just interested in learning about the variety of tools Granicus offers to help you increase transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation, we recently hosted a webinar to help you achieve this. We had Granicus customers attend from nearly thirty different cities and special districts from across the U.S. and Canada.

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State Legislatures Prioritize Government Transparency: NCSL Conference Highlights

Granicus enjoyed spending time with all the state representatives attending the 2011 NCSL Legislative Summit! At the conference we realized that more than ever state agencies are looking for cost-efficient web-based solutions to meet transparency demands.

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Granicus Open Platform User Training Now Available!

The Granicus Open Platform solution is the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way to start webcasting your government meetings live and on-demand. And in that spirit, the Granicus Training Team is now offering a fast, easy, and free way to hone your skills and learn how to use all of the features included with the Open Platform solution. We are now offering on-demand training sessions and a weekly 1-hour live training session for all Open Platform users or anyone interested in learning more about it! If you are interested in accessing these sessions contact me to get the link- it's free!

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Configuring your Video Player for Maximum Government Transparency

There is a term we've coined here at Granicus it's called the "Integrated Public Record." This is the ability to provide citizens a completely transparent view into your government meetings and proceedings within a single video player. Our player facilitates this by combining video, public records, index points, and making all of this "sharable" across the web!

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