See Government in Action: U.S. House Advances Transparency with Video

The U.S. House recently rolled out a redesigned website that features an entire live and on-demand video library, HouseLive.gov, to give citizens a “front-row seat in the U.S. House of Representatives chambers,” according to the feature story on the U.S. House website.

The launch of video portal marks a very exciting milestone in the government transparency movement at the federal level of government.

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Maximizing Public Access to Colorado State Senate and House Proceedings

Deb Lastowka is the Lead Television Director, overseeing all broadcast coverage of the Colorado House of Representatives and the State Senate for the Colorado Channel.

A few years back, former Speaker of the House, Andrew Romanoff had a vision of lifting the gold dome off of the Colorado State Capitol to provide Coloradans with the opportunity to watch the Colorado General Assembly at work.   The idea was that this programming could educate a new generation of civic leaders and voting citizens, thus playing a leading role in creating a civic culture in Colorado.

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How to Publish Granicus Videos to your Website

Are you looking for a way to distribute your videos across multiple pages on your website, beyond just the archive library you’ve created with Granicus? This is actually proven to be one of the top ways to attract more visitors to your content—we discussed this in a recent webinar, Webinar Highlights: Keys to Success with Government Video.  

This post will show you how to use the Granicus Platform to do this. And, for end-users that just want to share already published government content on their own websites—there’s a tip in here for you too!

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HouseLive.gov and the House Rules Committee Increase Transparency with Granicus

The 112th U.S. Congress kicked off its first legislative session Wednesday in a live broadcast from the House floor reaching millions of viewers on Facebook and the Granicus network. This set the tone for what's to come in the new year from Congress—a stronger commitment to transparency and accountability.

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Los Angeles Leverages the Granicus API to Enhance Public Access Without Disrupting Existing Workflows

The City of Los Angeles was one of our first customers to connect in-house systems with Granicus through the Granicus API. This enabled them to enhance public access to council meetings without requiring staff to change the way the run their public meetings using in-house software.

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Hardware as a Service – Saving you time AND money!

My first blog on the Granicus Unified Encoder gave a high-level overview of what it is and what you get. In this post, I wanted to take a deeper look at what this new Hardware as a Service (HaaS) approach Granicus is taking means to you as an IT/IS stakeholder.

Renting vs. Owning

In the HaaS model, you rent the encoder from us rather than buy it outright. This both lowers your initial cost and removes the maintenance burden that comes along with ownership.

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City of Sparks Signs with Granicus in Two Days to Save Open Meetings

Sparks, NV ran into a roadblock in mid-2010 when their public access station suddenly went out of business. The station was responsible for recording and broadcasting public meetings on TV and the Web. The city scrambled to move all of the equipment over to City Hall, set it up, and try to get their proceedings out to the public.

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