[Fla-facrlboard] Hopin Virtual Event Platform

[Guy Cicinelli]

Throwing another idea out there in case Hopin.to doesn't seem to fit our needs...
I'm working on picking out a platform for virtual events for my library system and one of the best platforms I found was CrowdCast. Here is a walk-through video on creating an event (two actually). Each session even has its own greenroom/staging room before it goes live, the host builds the sessions/schedule somewhere around 12 minutes in I think.https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.crowdcast.io/e/cc-demo-20200807https:/*www.crowdcast.io/e/cc-demo-20200814__;Lw!!PhOWcWs!hubnBRy_v0xAo0xWDSyktQHKzaUgSzDw4zZmbkzhvFAHwuhvTDEcjDRw19cvceKj4uvOy0iwlg$ 


This is a Q&A session that answers a lot of good question and how to's...https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.crowdcast.io/e/cc-demo-20200505/register__;!!PhOWcWs!hubnBRy_v0xAo0xWDSyktQHKzaUgSzDw4zZmbkzhvFAHwuhvTDEcjDRw19cvceKj4uviIhraGA$ 



Guy Cicinelli, MLISLibrary Technology Manager Lee County Library Systemmobile: 239-777-2827email: gcicinelli at aol.com


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From: Alyssa Koclanes via Fla-facrlboard <fla-facrlboard at lists.fsu.edu>
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It was very informative and while the session answered my questions, it did raise some concerns for me (costs, accessibility, lack of participant and presenter familiarity with the platform). It definitely has some advantages though over Zoom. And unless we want attendees to register twice, we would have to use their payment system on Hopin which would increase the cost for us. 
It may be possible for us to register attendees ourselves in Hopin however, so after they register and pay on the FACRL website we add them to the event in Hopin but I will need to review the information on that some more. I thought it was mentioned in the demo earlier. 
Rachel, the Pro Account is actually $18,000 a year! So not an option!
Only issue with the sign language interpreter is that we would need three of them, due to the concurrent sessions. 
Zoom currently doesn't have closed captioning either, although I've heard it may be an option soon.
Alyssa



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On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:17 PM Cooke, Rachel <rcooke at fgcu.edu> wrote:

Yes, I found it to be a good platform.  I liked the buttons to easily join "coffee" networking groups and vendor groups.  
Unless we go Pro (which was $1,300 I think he said?), it sounds like we will have to use their registration system and pay the ticket fees.  
Maybe we can get a sign language interpreter?  That is what SWFLN does - they use Adobe Connect and the signing person is a 2nd presenter.  It works great.  I can ask Luly Castro at SWFLN for more info, if folks are interested.  Or we can do it if upon request. 
 
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