Presentation introduces Internet TV as a concept and defines its specifics: What it really is? How is it any different? This will be rather broad overview of the topic covering essential facts and figures. Internet TV will be discussed in relation to social media, defining their correlation and overlapping aspects.

Next part will dig down to psychological affects that social media has over internet audience. Speaker will also talk about clicknetwork.tv as a case of successful online broadcasting project and evaluate its development and production stages.

Schematic transition from traditional blogging towards video blogging. Speaker will focus on what video blogging is and how to start the very personal one. As an experienced individual in the field she will provide analysis of Georgian audience from blogger’s viewpoint, and evaluate potentials of existing market. Presentation will also cover tips and advices of how bloggers can turn their readers into viewers of video posts.

Wendy Cheng (XiaXue) as one of the most successful bloggers in the world will talk about creating popular video content for the web. She will discuss details concerning online video, defining how it is different and from her experience will explain what does audience like. Her presentation will also cover ways to attract more viewers and descriptive strategy about necessary steps for achieving success.

In her second presentation Gillian Tan will cover existing standards for online video broadcasting. She will analyse production planning process and discuss details of appropriate structure, formatting and parameters of digital content.

Second part of the presentation will evaluate importance of journalism skills in content creation process and provide general guidelines for proper media content production. Presentation will also cover marketing and promotional strategies for post-production materials.

This presentation is detailed discussion about internet TV, covering all technical aspects and answering important questions. Speaker will compare and contrast side-by-side: internet TV, Video -sharing sites and IPTVs. Advantages over traditional TV broadcasting will be provided based on specific arguments and case studies.

Technical aspects of internet TV development will be evaluated according to system architecture, programming, networking and delivery systems; and reference system designs from existing projects will be examined.

This presentation is mostly covering journalism side of the conference. It answers question of how internet TV as a new channel of information broadcasting can be effective. Provides examples and explains why content creators should seek to improve social media.

Hemmy Cho will look into partnership among journalist and technical specialist to give recommendations about successful system development. She will critically evaluate necessity of diversification in terms of influence over media quality.

Finally different world-wide case studies will be discussed and conclusions drawn.

David Makaridze and Tamar Kobakhidze will talk about Internews Georgia’s media projects and specifically "Chveni Expresi" which is very interesting in its sense. They will tell the history and the background of this project, talk about gained experience through the production process and will also discuss challenges that they had to overcome. Presentation will also include evaluation of the situation currently present in Georgia.

Final presentation of the conference will be about monetizing developed products through online advertising. Stephen Ong will talk about problems, possibilities and advantages in internet ads business. He will provide descriptive analysis of effective advertising strategies and reference global statistics. Talking about international trends he is going to evaluate potential of this resource in Georgia, giving projections of what revenues can be expected.

This presentation is about Georgian video portal MyVideo.ge and its Live TV Channel.
The founder of the project, Mamuka Monavardisashvili, will talk about the technologies used in this project.
He will discuss such topics as premises for success, spectators' motivation, interest of TV broadcasters and monetarization problems and advantages.
The speaker will also determine the development directions for the project.

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