A customer of mine runs an educational workshop over a number of days. This year he offered the workshop via a webcast in addition to live attendance.

One website you can use to broadcast video for free is www.Ustream.tv.

The instructions are simple and you can have your own TV channel on the web in no time.

Ustream automatically archives your broadcasts, so people can watch them later.

You will probably want to embed your live show and archived videos on your website. Embedding your live show is easy. Ustream provides an embed link which you can copy and paste into your webpage.

You can do the same for the archived video, but you have code each one by hand. If you are programmer, you can automatically extract your archived videos and display then on your website.

See this article for an example of the code.

www.programmer.bz/Home/tabid/115/asp_net_sql/225/UstreamTv-Get-Archived-Videos-for-a-User.aspx

If you are charging for your videos, you need to protect them.

Ustream lets you make your videos private, but then you need to specify which Ustream users have access to your video.

Another choice is to pay the $50 a month and customize your own Ustream channel via your website. That way you can place the security on your website and only your website visitors can get to your channel.

By Andrew Weitzen (c) 2010

Weitzen is the publisher of several online Internet journals including: InternetHandholding.com, DomainNames.gs, DotNetNuke.bz, Programmer.bz, Software.vg, WebHosting.vg