The Big 12 Conference, in conjunction with omNovia, set out to deliver a weekly HD video streaming webcast that would bring together over 200 officials from across the country in an interactive virtual training environment.

Walt Anderson, coordinator of football officials for the Big 12 Conference, commented, “Implementing omNovia’s technology provides us an environment to review plays and effectively communicate with our game officials by incorporating real-time video instruction.”

Anderson goes on to further explain the value that omNovia was able to provide. “omNovia took the time to understand our unique needs and delivered the right solution. Their team worked with us every step of the way and provided us insightful guidance and training. In addition to providing a more consistent process for communication on new rules, this helps us in all aspects of game officiating.”

After evaluating many different technology providers, the Big 12 Conference selected omNovia for its unique ability to stream multiple live HD feeds with fast-forwarding, slow-motion and annotation capabilities. Big 12 Conference’s decision was also based on omNovia’s interactive tools such as chat, polling and multiple-person simultaneous voice streams.

“omNovia is honored to work with the Big 12 Conference and its officials. We have a very innovative team and believe that success is based on great technology, people and processes. This application is a perfect example of how all three combined deliver results,” said Shawn Shadfar, CEO of omNovia Technologies.

About omNovia Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in high-quality webinars, engaging online training and live event webcasting solutions for small online presentations to large-scale enterprise conferences with up to 5,000 simultaneous participants. omNovia’s next generation webcasting solution combines rich-media, interactive and intuitive features in a secure, branded and customizable environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast technology enables interactive replays of recorded events. In addition to cutting-edge technology, omNovia offers webinar services bringing best practices for more engaging, effective and impactful webinars. Visit http://www.omnovia.com for more information.

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in high quality, rich-media and interactive webinar and webcasting solutions, announced today the official release of the Presence Manager tool within the omNovia Webinar Pro and StageToWeb platforms. The Presence Manager allows moderators to automatically poll attendees at random times throughout the presentation in order to ensure they are alert and paying attention.

By leveraging the Presence Manager, moderators can launch customizable pop-up messages at periodic intervals in order to track and prove ongoing attendee participation throughout the duration of the event. The message of the pop-up, as well as the frequency, randomness, and duration are all able to be customized. For example, you can ask a simple question such as “Are you there?” at random intervals to test attendee presence. If the attendee responds, you will know that they are there and paying attention; if there is no response within a designated amount of time (configurable), the message will disappear.

“As a company that specializes in continuing professional education (CPE), we are always looking for innovative tools to guarantee our clients receive valuable results from our educational webinars. The addition of omNovia’s new Presence Manager feature gives us the ability to ensure, with proven reports, that attendees are alert and truly receiving the quality information we deliver, which plays a vital part in enhancing their firm’s overall performance,” said Jack Surgent, Chief Executive Officer of Surgent McCoy.

Full detailed reports are kept on the number of popups that were asked as well as the responses, if any, received by each of the participants. Additionally, a presence score is generated and added to the reports for each attendee.

This is an excellent tool for continuing education programs to qualify participants for certification or education credits based on their participation throughout the entire duration of the webinar. Additionally, other industries can leverage the Presence Manager tool to measure the engagement or attentiveness of their audience.

Go here to watch a short feature update about the Presence Manager.

About omNovia Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in high-quality webinars, engaging online training and live event webcasting solutions for small online presentations to large-scale enterprise conferences with up to 5,000 simultaneous participants. omNovia’s next generation webcasting solution combines rich-media, interactive and intuitive features in a secure, branded and customizable environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast technology enables interactive replays of recorded events. In addition to cutting-edge technology, omNovia offers webinar services bringing best practices for more engaging, effective and impactful webinars. Visit http://www.omnovia.com for more information

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in high quality, rich-media and interactive webinar and webcasting solutions, announced today that they will exhibit at the Streaming Media East Show from May 21-22, 2013 in New York City, USA.

omNovia’s StageToWeb provides a unique combination of HD quality video and fully interactive tools in a branded web and mobile based environment that goes beyond traditional video streaming solutions. StageToWeb enables event organizers to truly share the live experience and receive real-time feedback from online attendees, making it ideal for webcasting corporate or other marketing and training events.

At the Streaming Media East 2013 show, omNovia will be exhibiting their StageToWeb solution including event registration, reporting and integration APIs. In addition to showcasing the StageToWeb platform, omNovia will present their OPTiMA services which are designed to help organizers get the most out of their events based on business requirements and industry best practices.

Come by booth 111 to meet omNovia’s product and industry experts who will demonstrate the omNovia platform and discuss effective ways to enhance your webinar and live event webcasting experience. Additionally, you can pick up a free educational white paper titled “Interactive Corporate Event Webcasting,” written by Shawn Shadfar, omNovia’s Founder and CEO, that discusses best practices for designing and implementing new corporate event strategies that meet tomorrow’s business needs.

If you would like to learn more about omNovia’s StageToWeb live event webcasting solution, please go here. Additionally, you can read more about OPTiMA, omNovia’s full range professional services, by going here.

About omNovia Technologies:
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in high-quality webinars, engaging online training and live event webcasting solutions for small online presentations to large-scale enterprise conferences with up to 5,000 simultaneous participants. omNovia’s next generation webcasting solution combines rich-media, interactive and intuitive features in a secure, branded and customizable environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast technology enables interactive replays of recorded events. In addition to cutting-edge technology, omNovia offers webinar services bringing best practices for more engaging, more effective and impactful webinars. Visit http://www.omnovia.com for more information.

About Streaming Media East:
Now in its 16th year, the Streaming Media East show is the number-one place to come see, learn, and discuss what is taking place with all forms of online video business models and technology. While it’s great to talk about a lot of streaming media topics like encoding, video players, webcasting production etc. attendees want to do more than discuss these topics, they want to see them in action. Visithttp://www.streamingmedia.com/ for more information.

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in high quality, rich-media and interactive webinar and webcasting solutions announced today the official release of its unique Audio Chat technology. Audio Chat enables attendees to submit questions and comments via voice in an online seminar (webinar) environment, leading to more interactive live online presentations.

Taking questions via voice in real time, whether through phone or computer microphone, is an intricate and hard to manage process and can waste valuable time during a live webinar. Operator assisted conference calls on the other hand also provide a complex and costly solution. Consequently webinar organizers default to text-based chat during Q&A sessions.

The omNovia Audio Chat technology, within its rich-media webinar and webcast platform, offers an innovative solution to the above problem. Now, attendees have the option to use their computers’ microphone to record an audio message during the webinar and submit it into the chat box versus just communicating through text. In a privatized chat environment only webinar moderators can see these audio messages and may screen them before selecting the ones to play for the entire audience.

“This is a great option for interacting with people who are more comfortable speaking than typing. It also provides the engagement factor of multiple voices and helps convince attendees that you aren’t just making up your own fake audience questions to answer,” says industry expert Ken Molay here in his blog.

Audio Chat may also be used in live event webcasts in addition to webinars. During the live webcast of a seminar or a town-hall type meeting, online attendees will now have the ability to record questions and comments to be played for the physical and virtual audience.

“Audio Chat is the perfect example of omNovia’s ingenuity in offering easy-to-use yet sophisticated solutions,” said Shawn Shadfar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of omNovia Technologies. “Audio Chat is a big deal and will revolutionize how webinar organizers conduct Q&As,” he continued.

Audio Chat is included in the omNovia Pro package. A YouTube movie demonstrating this new feature is available here. For more information on omNovia Pro or to start a free trial of the omNovia platform, visit http://www.omnovia.com.

About omNovia Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in high-quality webinars, engaging online training and live event webcasting solutions for small online presentations to large-scale enterprise conferences with up to 5,000 simultaneous participants. omNovia’s next generation webcasting solution combines rich-media, interactive and intuitive features in a secure, branded and customizable environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast technology enables interactive replays of recorded events. In addition to cutting-edge technology, omNovia offers webinar services bringing best practices for more engaging, more effective and impactful webinars. Visit http://www.omnovia.com for more information.

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in high quality, rich-media and interactive webinar and webcasting solutions, today announced it will be hosting a free educational webinar series that focuses on providing industry best practices and valuable advice to business professionals.

This webinar series is a beneficial way for educators, executive management, sales professionals, trainers and marketers to discover innovative ways to make webinars more engaging, interactive and effective. Additionally, attendees will learn planning and preparation techniques to incorporate into their event strategy in order to eliminate stress and make future webinars run more smoothly and hassle free.

omNovia’s first event titled “Small Tools That Make a Big Difference” will be held on Wednesday, March 6 at 12:00 p.m. CT. This informative event, featuring omNovia Technologies’ founder and CEO Shawn Shadfar, is designed to teach webinar moderators and producers how to better utilize tools that are less obvious in order to effectively plan, create and execute high impact webinars that in turn deliver results. In this webinar Shawn will discuss topics such as how to use the presentation manager, additional ways to leverage interactive features, different room setting options, tools to better manage chat, auxiliary tools in the Slide Show Module and more. Go here for more information, or to register for this event.

Shawn Shadfar said: “The webinar is the ultimate marketing tool enabling you to communicate directly to your prospects. To get the most out of your webinars, it is critical to make them more interactive, media-rich and engaging.”

Each month omNovia will introduce a new educational webinar that focuses on demonstrating innovative ways to enhance user experience and make more effective webinars. Other upcoming webinars include:

– How to Turn Webinars into a Lead Generation Tool
– How to Repurpose Your Webinar for High-Quality Interactive Replay
– Go Beyond Simple PowerPoint and Audio
– Building Successful Webinars – key tips and insights

To keep informed about upcoming webinars and receive tips and advice on best practices, follow omNovia Technologies on Facebook.

About omNovia Technologies:
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia’s high-quality Web Conference platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment. Visit http://www.omnovia.com for more information.

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in high quality, rich-media and interactive webinar and webcasting solutions announced today an upgrade to their mobile app with support for omNovia’s unique On-Demand Recast technology. The new addition of Recast for mobile enables viewers on Apple and Android powered phones as well as tablets to replay omNovia hosted webinars at their convenience in an interactive mode.

“We have consistently improved our mobile app since its release in 2011 given that a significant number of our end-users follow webinars and training sessions on their mobile devices,” said Aalok Shah, Director of Operations at omNovia Technologies. The omNovia Mobile App provides users with a complete webinar experience that includes features such as chat, voice, live video, polling, slide shows with annotations, document sharing, desktop sharing, cobrowser and more. The recent addition of on-demand Recast is in-line with omNovia’s on-going goal to bring new and innovative features that offer a complete solution for all users in an easy-to-use interactive environment.

“As a company that specializes in interactive meetings and events, we are always seeking superior technical solutions that go beyond the traditional webinar. With omNovia, we can always count on continuous innovation and 100% reliability. We are excited that our current users and potential prospects can now participate from anywhere with the same great experience on their mobile devices during live as well as pre-recorded events,” said Michael Smith, President of OneCounts.

omNovia’s unique Recast technology has revolutionized online event recording by offering a new way to re-purpose recorded webinars, resulting in significant savings in cost and time. Unlike other recording systems that produce large file movies with no interactivity at play time, Recast reproduces the recorded event in a fully interactive environment exactly the way it happened live. Recast allows viewers to interact in the chat box, answer polls, retrieve file attachments, and basically do anything that an attendee could do in a live session. Some of the features that make Recast unique include:

• During the replay time, your viewers can access interactive features such as chat, polls/surveys, document folder, shared web pages, hyperlinks and more.
• Recast offers full reporting not only on number of views or viewers’ contact information, but also chat messages, questions and answers to the polls during the replay.
• Recast protects the intellectual property by providing a secure environment, which does not allow downloads or redistribution.

Go here to learn more about omNovia’s unique Recast technology.

About omNovia Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a global leader in online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia’s high-quality Web Conference platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment.

omNovia Technologies, a leading global provider of interactive online meetings, high quality webinars and live event webcasting solutions, today released a white paper titled “Interactive Corporate Event Webcasting”, which is now available for download at its website. This white paper, written by Shawn Shadfar, omNovia’s founder and CEO, educates corporate marketing and training executives as well as event producers on the business advantages and implementation options for webcasting corporate events.

Live event webcasting, meaning virtually sharing the live experience and not only video streaming, is going to play a major role in corporate event strategies in the upcoming years.

Over the last decade corporate events and gatherings have been heavily impacted by company budget restrictions. Many organizations have significantly reduced the frequency of their internal and external events and have replaced some with online webinars or other distance learning systems with questionable results. While there will always be physical gatherings, the corporate event industry is undergoing fundamental transformation, which will undoubtedly impact tomorrow’s corporate environment.

“The notion of event will evolve to simultaneously include physical and virtual similar to the way the term marketing has come to indicate offline and online marketing activities,” said Shawn Shadfar.

This white paper discusses business requirements, technical features and best practices for integration of effective webcasting into corporate events. It also provides tips that will help decision makers select the right webcast solution providers based on their business needs.

To download a PDF copy of this valuable white paper, go to http://www.omnovia.com/images/pdfs/Interactive-Corporate-Event-Webcasting.pdf

About omNovia
omNovia Technologies is a leading global provider of online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia’s high-quality web conferencing platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment. For more information please visit http://www.omnovia.com.

Houston, TXSeptember 19, 2012

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in web and video conferencing technology, and AV One, a leader in high quality audio visual services, announced today their partnership to provide unique turn-key live event webcasting services. The new partnership takes user experience to new heights by not only streaming events in HD quality, but also creating an easy-to-use, interactive and secure web based environment.

“The combination of AV One’s high quality services and omNovia’s advanced webcasting technology offers a unique solution that enables companies to create high impact events by significantly increasing their audience” said Tom Karr, CEO of AV One.

Live event webcasting enables companies to take events beyond the ballroom and into the PC or mobile devices of national and global audiences. Event webcasting is ideal for corporate communication, employee training, product launches, investor relationship, political speeches and more.

Patrick Ricci, Director of Sales North America for omNovia Technologies based in Houston said “In this rapidly growing market, companies need to maximize their return on events (ROE). The successful relationship with AV One is a perfect example of how omNovia partners with AV companies allowing them to provide advanced webcasting solutions to their clients.”

Live event webcasting, also referred to as simulcasting, is different from webinars in that presenters are on a live stage or in front of production cameras as opposed to in front of their computers. The omNovia solution takes the standard audio and video feed from AV One’s equipment and broadcasts it live to remote attendees. In addition to HD video quality in a branded and customizable web or mobile based interface, attendees can watch slide shows and interact with the live audience via chat, polls and Twitter. The omNovia solution also incorporates a comprehensive event management and credit card processing system. Beyond technology, omNovia and AV One specialists will work with the clients to design, setup and deliver events using industry best practices.

Another noteworthy feature is the Recast technology, which records live events and is capable of replaying them while preserving the interactivity of the original presentation. Replaying a Recast will, for instance, enable viewers to take polls and experience the event with the same impact as the live broadcast.

For more information, visit http://www.omnovia.com/webcasting.

About omNovia
omNovia Technologies is a leading global provider of online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia’s high-quality web conferencing platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment. For more information please visit http://www.omnovia.com.

About AV One
With locations in Schiller Park, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada, AV One provides audiovisual equipment rentals and services nationally for conventions, meetings, exhibits, Hotels, meeting facilities and businesses. Audio/video recording, webcasting and wide-screen video capabilities are available. Meeting room consultants, hotel audiovisual department and business center management offered. Please contact us for a proposal specific to your needs. For more information please visit http://www.audiovisualone.com.

MonaVie, one of the fastest growing companies worldwide that offers premium quality nutritional products, has chosen omNovia’s Web Conference platform to simultaneously broadcast its webinars in multiple languages.

“As a company growing in markets all over the world, one of MonaVie’s biggest challenges is how to deliver our message across many different languages all at the same time. What attracted us to omNovia was the chance to create live multi-lingual presentations that could help us to deliver a high-quality, engaging and rich-media web presentation and training instead of multiple sessions. This has not only saved us valuable time for all those involved, but has also allowed us to deliver a more consistent message to our worldwide audience.” said Stephen Jones, Director of Communications and Online Marketing Europe at MonaVie.

Leveraging the multi-lingual option, translators can listen to a live audio stream and interpret it in real-time. Attendees can then select their language from the available list of channels in the omNovia webinar interface. The multi-lingual feature is also complemented by the new Closed Captioning system for US Government Section 508 compliance.

Shawn Shadfar, CEO of omNovia Technologies said “with omNovia’s unique multi-lingual feature, you can connect, for instance, with your English, Spanish and Chinese speaking audience in one single virtual presentation instead of spending time and money on multiple meetings.”

For more information regarding the multi-lingual feature within the omNovia Web Conference platform, visit http://www.omnovia.com/multi-language.

About omNovia Technologies

omNovia Technologies is a global leader in online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia’s high-quality Web Conference platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia’s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia’s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment.