Coming up on today's show we're gonna take a look at the new Skype Meeting
Broadcast. We'll explore what it is,
How it works and will even use our studio cameras as event team members
and USB connected webcams during the filming of the show
as we demonstrate the new producer capabilities for managing the broadcast experience
Microsoft Office
Office Mechanics
I'm joined again by Greg Baribault now lead
Product Manager for Skype Meeting Broadcast welcome.
Thanks, great to be here again
So how does Skype Meeting Broadcast fit in with Skype for Business?
Well Skype for Business provides great tools for 1-to-1 communication
and for small groups to get together and collaborate exchange content and ideas easily
but as meetings grow larger, it's less about collaboration and more about presentation
and so we've created Skype meeting broadcast to address that need
We've been in the large meeting space for some time now with Live Meeting, how is this different?
We have learned a lot from that but
in a mobile-first, cloud first-world
people want to consume meetings on more devices
and we want to democratize meeting production to allow anyone to do it
right from Skype for Business
Let's show how it works
So here I'm showing our new
scheduling portal and I'm gonna just go ahead and click new meeting and
set up a new event.
Okay so I've set up the basic information for our team all
hands on July 27 to 10 a.m.
I'll save that. So my basic event
is set up and now I'm gonna add our event team members and event team to members help
moderate, present or produce the event we'll add our director,
Jeremy, and I'll save that
How do we prevent uninvited people from joining the meeting? How do I make sure just the people that I want
can attend and not be able to forward the link had two other people we don't
in the meeting
We provide three options for meeting attendees the first this anonymous where
anybody with the link can access the meeting the next we call secure where
only the people that are actually invited and on the list here can get
into the meeting when they join
and the last is open, where only your company
employees can join. I'm gonna make this a secure a meeting in just invite
all employees distribution group okay so I'm gonna build my secure event
for employees and I'll save that
so with the basic meeting set up I can now customize the experience that the
attendees can interact with
and here we allow you to add applications that
sit next to the video or below the video so that while they're watching the meeting
they can engage in a social conversation on
Yammer or express their sentiment about that what the presenter is saying
on Bing Pulse
I'm gonna have Bing Pulse here
okay so I've added my pulse information that I did on on the
pulse.bing.com site and now I'm done customizing. I'll save that
It looks like everything's about ready. So how do we go about
inviting the audience?
So here I can copy the link to the event to the clipboard and
everybody will join from the same event whether they're on the event team or
whether they're an attendee
and I've also got a meeting invitation set up here
that will generate automatically and give you a link to the meeting
so now when I send that it comes from my own calendar and invites everybody that I
invited to the meeting
So let's show how to set up the broadcast experience.
Sure, so the first step is to
set up the cameras
now in our case we have three cameras camera one, camera two
and camera three. Each of these is connected over USB to an
event team member signed in to the meeting.
Great, but is there any type of
camera that I have to have to use Skype Meeting Broadcast?
It will work with any USB connected camera or internal camera
that works with Skype for Business.
How's the meeting experience actually managed?
Well, as an attendee you would land on this join page that we have
and clicking the join link would open the attendee experience
where you have the video and whatever applications that we added
during scheduling. If you're in a meeting or event team participant
you can click the last link there to join as an event team member and that
let you into this Skype for Business meeting and you can actually manage the event
from there
so here my meeting is started. I'm not gonna add my camera but I'm going to
invite other folks
and now I'm going to invite the three cameras
and you'll see my three cameras have now joined in to the meeting
OK, so I've already clicked on 'join the event' here in another tab so that's
Let's show how we'll get that started in Skype Meeting.
So it's important to note too that only the event team members
can authenticate and join into this meeting so the rest of your attendees
can not join in
and take over the presentation that you're trying to deliver.
Makes sense.
So on this screen what you'll see is a very familiar
Skype Meeting experience. We've added some new controls on the right
for managing the Skype Broadcast. What I'm gonna do is I'll pick one of our cameras.
I'll pick camera 2 and make that the active camera
So that's the one that I'm deciding right now that I want my audience to see
And we've got a PowerPoint loaded up as well. I want to open the meeting
with a video and content side by side layout and we can do
full screen video or full screen content I think it's interesting to start with both
and when we're ready to go I hit start broadcast. Acknowledge that I really want
to begin and now my attendees are gonna to start to see and hear.
One thing we should point out is
in a larger meeting you might have multiple people right? This is backstage view
you may have someone running the PowerPoint maybe moderating questions,
maybe another person presenting, but also in a one-person, doing
all the work perspective, you can also manage everything yourself kind of like
you're doing here
Right. That's right. We want to have people to find their own roles and what
they're going to do as an event team member,
maybe just moderating Q&A, but
in the sense of democratizing large meeting production we really want it
to be something that one person can do on their own
So I'll go ahead and start a broadcast here
and all of the attendees that are online watching are gonna switch from our
pre-meeting curtain and show a live video.
Alright so now I'm just gonna switch over to the audience view here
we already have that loaded earlier, we can see that the meetings now started
we have a thumbnail view of Greg and myself
and we have the Bing Pulse already loaded as well as the Yammer
conversation right there
on the right hand side the meeting
Right, and the same view would be
on any device that I join whether it's a tablet, a phone
we just lay out the screen appropriately for the size of the device your on
And we can also do things like track sentiment with the meeting. I have Bing
Pulse here, I'm going to go ahead and give a thumbs up some really liking this feature
and click Save and there you can actually see if I'm presenting what's
going on in terms of
how people are liking your content. So what happens though
if I'm late for a meeting
Right, if you're late or you need to take a break and walk away from your screen
the video is a fully DVR capable video so if I join late I can just rewind and
catch the meeting from the beginning.
If I need to walk away I can pause come back and finish the video later.
So how do you know how many people actually joined the meeting?
Well, after the meeting, the organizer or anyone on the event team can come back
to the scheduling portal
and download a CSV file that contains everything that happened during that meeting
so everyone that came in, whenever they left,
whatever device they joined on, and even what kind of experience they had while
they were there
so here I get a sample have a post-meeting report from one of our last meetings
you can see I've got all the attendees and each time they came in and left
I've taken that created a report from it where I can really see a lot of
statistics about that event
What time they came in what the shape of the the joint activity looked like
the types of devices that they joined on.
and then I can actually see a full roster of everybody that came in
and the time that they spent online.
That's really great, but what else
happens after the meeting is over?
So we convert the video that was created into a video on demand rather than a
DVR video and anyone can come back for 90 days in fact and watch that video,
the organizer can also download it and then publish it into any place
they choose including Office 365 Video. Really great, so how can people get started?
Really great, so how can people get started?
so our tech preview is available right now you can go and sign up and then create
your own broadcast meetings
And when will Skype Meeting Broadcast be generally available?
We're shipping later this year.
Very good stuff. All this information and more can be found not only on the Skype blog
but also on the Office blog and Wednesdays on Office Mechanics
that's about all the time we have for today's show, thank you all for watching
goodbye for now
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