Last night we had about 50 people come to Trinity last night (not bad, considering how well I promoted it) for the largest ever web simulcast Town Hall for Hope. It was great. Dave Ramsey spoke for about 30 minutes about the economy and put where we are in terms of history into context. It was fascinating having my understanding put into perspective. Then he took questions from people all over the country.
He ended with a call to action and gave everyone 3 things to do in dealing with the fear about recession.
1. Get up and Take Action
2. Stop Listening To Looser talk
3. Start Giving
The whole thing has been exciting when Trinity first signed up they were anticipating about 500 locations simulcasting the event. By the first night of testing there were over 6000 locations (glad I wasn't one of the tech guys pulling this off! (Praise God for the people that did!)). The first night of testing was full of bad lip sync, buffering and loosing the stream all together, but I guess when you provide10 times the number of streams you are going to have issues. Well they got it all working and it was neat to see momentum pickig up for the event. We were told early on that Fox Business Network was going to broadcast about 30 minutes of the program and if the webcast failed then that could be one of the many backups they provided. Well as the response grew. Fox Business decided to broadcast the full 1.5 hours commercial free! I'm glad we were able to participate.
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