How to Participate as a Viewing Site for Our Broadcast
If you reside in or near Atlanta, Georgia, USA we encourage you to attend our live studio event held at the IBM Hillside auditorium located at 4111 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30327. If you live outside the metro Atlanta area, you are encouraged to considering viewing our broadcast via alternate means.
How can I watch the program outside Atlanta, Georgia?
There are two methods to view our broadcast, one is live and two are delayed. For live viewing sites, we offer web streamed video to any site with access to a high-speed Internet connection.
Delayed viewing sites may take part either via an archived version of the live program available via web streamed video, or order a DVD copy that we will send to you.
The archived web stream will be viewable within 24 hours following completion of the live program (so if the live webcast ends at 8:30pm ET, the delayed web stream will be accessible beginning the next day around 8:30 p.m.)
It takes a minimum of one week to make DVD copies and deliver them to US addresses—so please schedule your delayed viewings accordingly. Also, there is a small fee of $35 that covers the cost of DVD duplication and shipping.
Anyone can watch? What is the price?
Yes and there is no charge to receive the signal. Anyone that is interested in supporting local innovation and entrepreneurship in their area can participate. However, we prefer that individuals watch the program at local viewing sites in a group setting, rather than solo, to allow for networking and interaction.
In areas where a viewing site exists with a local MIT Enterprise Forum Chapter or MIT Alumni Club, we prefer viewers attend there. Otherwise, interested groups from business, education, government, trade associations or clubs are welcome to organize a viewing site, following the procedures described below.
What is the first step I should take?
You'll need to have a venue that can handle the size of the audience you expect to draw. This venue will need video projection capabilities and a sound system.
If planning to take part in the webcast, your venue must have a computer with high speed Internet access (our video is transmitted at a rate of 400 kilobits per second).
Click here (link coming soon) to send us an email to expressing your interest in participating. You may call or email Virginia Martin at 404-422-0330 or virginia at mitforumatlanta.org with questions meantime.
What information will I need to provide you?
Prior to the program, each site will need to let us know the location (and date, for delayed viewing sites) and method you will be using to participate (web or delayed). We will also want contact information for a point person from your organization and a technical point person for your venue. .
After the webcast we will send each contact person a brief on-line survey to get your feedback on the program. You must agree to complete the survey in order to receive the program. One of the main pieces of information we will want to know is your total audience size and how many members of your audience were MIT alumni. Therefore, please be sure to collect this information from your audience.
Are there promotional materials available?
Please feel free to use any information from the MIT Enterprise Forum web site and the Atlanta Chapter web site on your own web site, or in any email blasts you send, as a way to publicize the program to your local audience. (For this program, please do NOT use the image on our home pages for copyright reasons.)
At your request, we will provide a marketing flyer and panelists’ photos. You can adapt the flyer for your promotional purposes.
