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The A-E-I-O-Us of Event Streaming

by Intrada Webmaster in News and Events
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The A-E-I-O-Us of Event Streaming

How can a successful three-day conference, a non-profit’s largest fundraising gala, or an educational seminar still occur with the gathering size limitations being enforced due to a national pandemic? Enter – event streaming.

While in-person, face-to-face events have been the norm for many years, we need to learn to pivot and shift our thoughts regarding how we plan events. We need to develop an informative, enjoyable, and engaging event for virtual attendees. To help you, we have created the AEIOUs of event streaming.

Audit

Planning a three-day virtual conference is very different from a three-day in-person conference. Although an 8 am-3 pm day of seminars along with a break for lunch, snacks, and dinner in the evening with colleagues is typical – sitting in front of a computer screen for that amount of time sounds exhausting. Hello, Zoom fatigue!

Considering that, you need to do a complete event audit to see what needs to be included, what can be removed, and what should be added to both meet your internal event goals and meet your audience’s wants and desires. Why you plan an event and what you hope to achieve is often radically different than why your audience attends the event and what they hope to receive.

Engaging

After you conduct an event audit, you need to put your thinking cap on and decide how to make your event more engaging. An online audience and a face-to-face audience are very different. A three-hour luncheon with a speaker could be greatly condensed to maybe 30 or 45 minutes.

What is going to keep your online audience interested in your event instead of the work emails that are piling up or projects that are pressing? Think about ways that you can make your online event special, interesting and compelling for the people attending.

If you still would like to serve lunch, deliver e-gift cards to local restaurants or have attendees pick boxed lunches up at a designated area or delivered to their home or office. Get your creative juices flowing.

Is Here to Stay

Experts say restrictions on gatherings will be gradually lifted as we approach the late summer and early fall months of 2021. Where does that leave event streaming?

While many attendees will want to attend your in-person events, you will still have those who can’t, but would like to. When we get to that point, a hybrid event model (in-person/event streaming) will become a part of your event planning and management diction.

Also, offering a hybrid event can provide additional revenue for your organization that you never considered. More people may attend. More donors may participate. You can offer recorded event sessions again later for a fee. There are a lot of options!

(Be) Open

We can be sure of a few things in life, and change is one of them. Be open to incorporating event streaming into your event management toolbox in one way or another. Whether it means holding a hybrid event or a webinar, embrace it.

Untapped Opportunity

Event streaming has many benefits and can be an untapped opportunity. It offers a greater reach, engagement, future audience views and can grow your website traffic. While providing more visibility, it also gives your event a longer shelf life if you decide to record it. Event streaming can be one of the most powerful and cost-effective delivery platforms for your company’s communication toolbox.

Start Streaming with Intrada

Intrada Technologies has years of experience planning and successfully achieving our clients’ audio/visual, event management, and web streaming goals. From small to large events, we have anticipated needs and proactively supported clients locally and nationally.

We support and/or manage our clients' creative processes and provide event streams' technical production. The event streaming process begins with speaking with Intrada’s seasoned and knowledgeable team.

Give Intrada a call or contact us below to obtain a free estimate and discuss our event streaming process.

 



 
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Staff Spotlight: James Haywood, Project Coordinator

by Intrada Webmaster in News and Events
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When James Haywood joined Intrada Technologies in August 2019, Intrada’s owners, David Steele and Paul Boyer, expected an increase in clients and sales.

After a few months, it was clear that David and Paul had made a great choice with this hire. James’ interpersonal skills and fun-loving personality brought more to Intrada than expected.

James has worked well with the Intrada crew from the outset – helpfully relating to both technology-focused programmers and non-technical prospects and clients.

James Haywood and Family

He brings creativity and new ideas to Intrada, benefitting the office. Many of his efforts have grown our team’s camaraderie and raised morale. Some notable successes include engaging everyone in the office with fun holiday parties or epic game tournaments after hours.

Intrada has also benefitted from James’ commitment to fulfilling our mission to create ongoing, trusted partnerships and provide customized information technology solutions. He enjoys connecting with people and manages our clients’ experiences well with good communication and insightful problem- solving.

James tackles challenges with tenacity. This may be due to his love of learning, fondness of strategic board games and diverse career experiences – especially his service in the US Army. James’ passion to learn, grow and help others is summed up in his favorite quote by Albert Einstein, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

“This quote challenges me to research until I truly understand. And when I truly understand, then I can explain it various ways to others so they do too,” James stated.

As he has grown in his understanding of Intrada’s variety of technology services, one that stands out to James is our PRO-Active Network Support.

“I really like the way networking and IT work together through our Networking Support services,” James said. “Our PRO-Active agreements keep clients’ networks secure, reliable and productive.”

Stable and secure networks are not the only things that make Intrada Technologies special, though, he emphasized.

“Intrada does its best to only offer the best solution [to clients],” James shared. “A lot of companies look for the sale first, but we look for the solution first. We truly are committed to our clients’ success and building trusted partnerships with every client.”

James Haywood Having Fun

Working for Intrada Technologies has opened doors of opportunity for James to build relationships and give back to the community as well. He is currently the Vice President of the Williamsport Rotary and will serve as President again in July 2021. Rotary service allows James to mobilize and work with other like-minded business people to serve and raise funds for the betterment of the greater Williamsport area and abroad.

When not organizing in-office Rap Battles, helping clients find the best solutions with technology, or serving our local and international communities, James enjoys spending time with his wife and son, playing guitar and playing or watching sports.

To connect with James Haywood, call 800-858-5745 or email him at jhaywood@intradatech.com.

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Is User Activity Monitoring Right for my Business?

by Intrada Webmaster in News and Events
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One of the fastest-growing challenges companies are currently facing due to the sizable increase of their employees working from home is productivity. According to a report by the Pew Research Center, only 7% of workers in the U.S. worked from home, pre-pandemic. Now, and not by choice, nearly two-thirds of Americans work remotely. When employees are working from their home office, how do employers know what they are doing? When and how often are employees disengaging? Is there an easy way that employers can monitor user activity and productivity? There is, and Intrada has a solution.

Intrada Technologies offers software that provides our clients with user activity monitoring for both the remote and on-premise users.

How does user activity monitoring software work?
David Steele, the co-founder of Intrada Technologies, states, “The productivity platform learns a baseline activity for each user. Reports and auditing start as soon as the low weight, hidden application is applied to the user device. But the platform also learns and builds a profile based on user activity. Once the profile baseline is established, the software will notify administrators of any changes in behavior, including apps used, time allocation, or even how email messages are worded.”

Human Resources and department managers can easily monitor computer usage and productivity by viewing easy to follow dashboards and reports. The software is customizable for your company’s specific needs to provide alerts based on rules or benchmarks.

The activity report provides information regarding the hours your employees are working, what they are working on, and monitors several actions, including email, print jobs, website history, keystrokes, web searches, and network access. It also recognizes when they may need extra support or coaching, as working from home isn’t an easy transition for some. And suppose your employee is spending their time watching movies on Netflix, chatting on social media most of the day, or engaging in any unauthorized or permitted activity during the workday? In that case, an alert will be sent to the administrator or HR department to review.

“While this software is very big brother, companies need to protect the security and privacy of company information,” Steele emphasizes. “Most companies are required to provide security and protection of company information under compliancy cyber insurance policies. This platform provides companies with accountability on the end-user and a consistent benchmark. Companies can have peace of mind by knowing users are monitored, providing a systemized approach to productivity, security, and accountability.”

If employee user activity monitoring is the direction you are going in, Intrada also recommends adding ransomware monitoring or EDR (endpoint detection and response) as an additional security option. EDR protects end-users, servers, or workstations by detecting, blocking, alerting, and restoring files that could be attacked.

How can Intrada help?
Is your business interested in determining what productivity looks like for your remote employees? Are you looking to discover and analyze trends in the most productive times of day and locations? Or are you concerned about data security with the sudden and continued growth of work at home team members?

Intrada Technologies views employee user activity monitoring software as a potential tool in your productivity toolbox. While it may work for some businesses, some other tools may work better for your business.

For a free technical assessment, contact us today at (570) 321-7370. We would be happy to explain the benefits and challenges in more detail so you can decide if utilizing productivity monitoring software or EDR is the right move for your business.

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Celebrating 20 Years

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The year was 2000, also known as Y2K. The information technology industry was starting to become more intertwined in everyone’s personal and professional lives. Two friends, each with newborn children and wives who were making the career change to stay at home, became aware of this and thought, why not quit our full-time jobs and start a tech company?

Brief history
With Paul Boyer’s electrical engineering degree from Penn State and David Steele’s plethora of private studies and certifications from the Pennsylvania College of Technology, the natural-born problem solvers and rookie entrepreneurs launched Intrada Technologies.

What began in David’s basement with six clients and two employees has grown into a small business that has outgrown its office space four times. It serves nearly 200 clients with twenty full-time employees and quite a few freelancers brought into projects for their unique specialties.

Why the name ‘Intrada’?
Intrada is a musical term meaning prelude. The name was chosen to pay homage to David’s father, a renowned musician, composer, mentor to Intrada, and set the stage for the exciting business growth to come.

It wasn’t always easy.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of small businesses fail within the first year. By year five, approximately 50% have closed their doors, and after year 10, only around a third make it.

Steele indicates that Intrada has had its ups and downs, good years and not so good years, but pushed through.

So how did Intrada stay on course and not become a statistic? David Steele chalks it up to not following how the average IT company does business.

Steele and Boyer built their business on their problem-solving abilities and continually invested in new ways to serve clients.

“We didn’t want to be the stereotypical IT company trying to add clients to our accounts receivable column,” he adds. “We wanted to start a company that offered clients the opportunity to forge and build an ongoing, collaborative relationship with us. We wanted each client to think of us as an instant expansion of their own IT department and call on us for any problem, issue, or improvement they needed. It is our unique client/partner relationship that has helped our company to grow.”

Relationships
Intrada was also building relationships with other companies to enhance service offerings to clients. One of these relationships was with PRworks, a marketing and public relation company based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The relationship forged into a strategic partnership. Intrada focused on the technical components and PRworks concentrated on the messaging and branding components bridging a common challenge between a technical and creative organization.

The partnership was unique to the industry and provided clients a powerful approach to create a strategic direction to maximize marketing and communication services. The partnership grew into a family-like relationship, so when owners Robert and Deborah Saline decided to retire and sell PRworks, Intrada purchased the company. Steele then hired Jason Kirsch to continue the Saline legacy providing quality, ethical-based public relation services to our clients.

Looking ahead
With a relationship-based business model serving as its foundation with a customer service goal to exceed our clients’ expectations, David and Paul have built a company focused intentionally and strategically on each client and their specific needs. Intrada continues to grow each of our service lines, including new cybersecurity and compliancy services, and align web analytics with campaign goals to streamline activity monitoring and targeting.

We are looking forward to providing technology solutions for years to come and are continually looking for prospects that value technology and desire to build a relationship with their technology partner.

Steele adds, “The information technology industry is constantly evolving. Intrada plans on doing the same, bringing new services and products to our clients to help their businesses run efficiently. Marking twenty years in business is an accomplishment that could only be done through our valued clients and partnerships. We Thank You. While our initial celebration had to be postponed, we are planning a September 2021 event to thank all of our clients.”

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Watching for Phishing Emails - 6 Red Flags

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Nov
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Intrada continues to see a huge increase in email scams designed to steal individual identity, access online accounts or control computers. To help you not get caught in a phishing scam, we have created a downloadable PDF listing red flags you should be aware of before opening an email or clicking on any email links. We encourage you to share it with your staff. Please click here to download.

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