You know it’s a big deal when an entire report drops about how technology is reshaping the way Queensland works — and we’re not just talking about a few new apps or faster Wi-Fi.

The Business Chamber Queensland’s “Digital Future of Work 2025” report is a fascinating snapshot of where we’re heading in Queensland as a State. Spoiler alert: we’re heading straight into an era where AI, secure online systems, and flexible learning are no longer “nice-to-have” — they’re the new baseline.

At JPL Media, that’s exactly the space we’ve been building in for years. Almost 20 to be exact.

So, let’s unpack what the report found — and how the tools we already offer (like Mediasite and Snapsight) fit perfectly into this evolving picture.

 

🤖 AI and Automation: The Rise of “Helpful Tech,” Not “Scary Robots”

According to the report, AI use among Queensland businesses has doubled in the last year — but 73% of companies still admit they’re only scratching the surface of what it can do.

Honestly, we get it. AI can sound intimidating… until you realise it’s basically just your really efficient intern who never sleeps.

That’s where Snapsight comes in. It listens to meetings, presentations or event recordings and automatically turns them into clean transcripts, smart summaries and searchable insights. No extra staff, no extra hours, no mystery algorithms taking over your business — just time saved and ideas captured.

It’s the affordable, no-fuss version of AI that event managers and Queensland businesses have been asking for.

 

🔐 Cybersecurity: Because No One Likes Surprise Ransomware

One of the report’s best stats? Cyberattacks are down (12% this year, compared to 15% last year). The not-so-great news? Only 10% of businesses feel truly prepared for the next one.

That’s why every system we deploy — from video hosting to our transcription engine — is built on secure, encrypted infrastructure.
We don’t take shortcuts with data. Your training videos, meeting recordings and course content live safely behind permissions and protocols that meet enterprise-level standards.

It’s the peace of mind you should expect, without the enterprise-level price tag.

 

🌐 Connectivity: Making Sure the “Remote” in Remote Work Actually Works

If you’ve ever tried to stream video from regional Queensland, you’ll know what the report’s talking about when it says connectivity issues still plague almost half of businesses.

That’s why Mediasite has long supported adaptive streaming and offline playback — so you don’t need perfect internet to learn, collaborate, or teach.
Your audience can download training sessions, watch later, or even listen on the go.

No buffering. No “trying to reconnect…” screens. Just smart delivery that works where your team works.

 

🏡 Hybrid Work: Still Here (and Getting Smarter)

The big takeaway here? Hybrid work isn’t going anywhere. About half of Queensland employees now work from home at least part-time, and most businesses report that productivity hasn’t suffered.

What’s changing is how teams stay connected and informed.
That’s where Mediasite really shines — automatically recording, streaming and archiving meetings, workshops and training sessions so everyone stays in the loop, even if they couldn’t make the live event.

Pair it with Snapsight’s instant takeaways and you’ve got an affordable “always-on memory” for your business — no expensive production team required.

 

 

🎓 Digital Skills: The Age of Bite-Sized Learning

The report also highlights something we’ve known for years — businesses are desperate for faster, cheaper ways to upskill.
More than 80% said they want micro-credentials and short, targeted training, not three-year degrees.

That’s exactly what Mediasite was built for.
Record a short session, tag it with a learning objective, upload it, and boom — it’s instantly available for staff anywhere. Add quizzes, discussions and progress tracking if you want to make it fancy.

We like to think of it as your own private YouTube – with data protection, advanced analytics and a dashboard. 

 

💡 The Big Picture: Affordable Tech for Real-World Work

What we love about this report is that it’s not just talking about some distant, futuristic workforce — it’s talking about the here and now.
Queensland businesses want technology that works, is affordable, and makes everyday work easier.

That’s exactly what drives us at JPL Media.
We’ve always believed that great technology shouldn’t require a team of engineers or a six-figure budget. It should just work — and make your day a little smoother.

Whether it’s Mediasite for capturing and sharing knowledge, or Snapsight for turning conversations into insights, we’re proud to already be doing the things this report says are essential for Queensland’s digital future.

So while others are still “preparing for transformation,” we’re already busy helping people live it — one video, transcript, and takeaway at a time.

 

 

“If you build it, they will come.”

 

Many of us are familiar with this line, from the 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams. It’s a memorable line that reflects an inspiring perspective on the value of patience and hope. And it applies broadly to many areas of life and business – but maybe not all areas.

At JPL, we do not believe that a “Field of Dreams” approach to enterprise video will deliver the results that our customers need and expect.

What do we mean by that?

Many video companies seem to believe that “if they build it, the content will come.” In other words, if you buy a video management platform from them, high-quality enterprise video content will appear, as if by magic. Or they simply leave it to their customers to find a way to bring the content they need to the platform.

A strategy like this might make some sense in certain areas of the consumer video space, but enterprise video is different.

In today’s digital landscape, the sheer volume and diversity of video content can be overwhelming to both organizations and individual content owners. And with content scattered across various platforms, the need for seamless integration and effortless video management has never been more critical.

Our goal is to make video content creation, whether it involves recording a new video or ingesting and editing existing content, an effortless breeze.

How to Capture Content with Mediasite

1. Integrations

Mediasite has invested significant efforts in developing the most streamlined and automated platform integrations available today. With Mediasite, you can quickly and easily import video content from popular platforms like Zoom, Teams, Webex, Vimeo, and many others.

Our integrations ensure that your content flows seamlessly into Mediasite, allowing you to focus on what matters most: creating engaging and impactful connections with your target audiences.

2. Room-Based Recording Solutions

To streamline the capture and management process, our purpose-built recording appliances automate the entire content capture workflow. With Mediasite Recorders, your content owners can effortlessly capture and manage content with minimal manual effort, empowering them to concentrate on delivering valuable video content to their audience without worrying about the technical side.

No other solution on the market simplifies the recording and publishing of speakers in their natural habitat – training rooms, meeting rooms and lecture halls – as effectively as Mediasite.

3. Browser-Based Recording Solutions

We are excited to introduce Mediasite Capture, a browser-based recording solution and the easiest, most accessible capture solution in the Mediasite toolkit. Mediasite Capture launches directly from MyMediasite and allows your users to effortlessly record video content and create rich media presentations without having to download an app or install desktop-based software. It’s the epitome of simplicity and convenience and a perfect solution for less-experienced content creators.

Conclusion

When it comes to video management, JPL doesn’t take chances with a hope-based “Field of Dreams” strategy (though we do love the movie!). We don’t just deliver a video platform; we actively collaborate with you to create the high-value, time-sensitive video content your organization demands.

Our focus on seamless integration, automated workflows, and effortless video capture sets us apart from the competition. And our innovative solutions will enable you to unlock the full potential of your video content and captivate your audience like never before.

So don’t settle for a platform that leaves you hoping for content to materialize. Hope is not a strategy. Choose Mediasite, where video creation and management become a frictionless reality.

Learn more about Mediasite Capture and our other streaming and recording solutions or schedule a demo today.

  As leaders and executives try to navigate what government and business looks like in a post COVID-19 reality, they can learn a lot from their peers in China who have settled into the new normal and found success.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University was an early adopter of Mediasite for online learning in 2020 as the coronavirus quickly spread in China. The long-time Mediasite user converted to a 100 percent online campus in just days, giving all faculty access to Mediasite’s personal capture software to record on-demand lectures for 14,000 students to watch. During the first two days of the semester, they created more than 2,000 videos that students viewed nearly 100,000 times in the Moodle learning management system. Those are incredible usage numbers! Plus, the instructors already had all their academic video content from previous years to share with students.

The university is seeing such success because it understands an important piece of their virtual learning puzzle that other institutions may be overlooking: 

There’s incredible value in mixing on-demand video learning with real time collaboration via web conferencing. Striking that balance is key.

How most successful people are doing it

Think of it this way: If conferencing systems like Microsoft Teams & Zoom are your virtual, real-time meeting spaces, on-demand streaming video is your reference library. The flipped meeting concept, blending on-demand content with real-time discussion, has never been more relevant than it is today.  Here’s what our successful customers do:

• At the beginning of the week, people read info about what they’re working on.
• During the middle of the week, they watch pre-recorded Mediasite videos via their learning management system or video portals.
• At the end of the week, people meet and have discussions via Teams about the videos and the info they’ve been working on

 

“I don’t use the Zoom meeting to deliver content, I use it to discuss content,” said Roberto Dona, a professor in XJTLU’s business school in a recent Campus Technology article “Remote Learning on the Fly: Notes from China.” “The students are obliged to study to prepare themselves and we have the entire virtual class period to discuss. By combining live and on demand classes, I am not just replacing the physical class, I can enhance the course.”

As organisations have been adopting online learning strategies, it’s important to recognize which tools are effective for different aspects of online communications and audience engagement. People don’t want to sit in a Teams or Zoom meeting and listen to other people talk at them for an hour. That’s not engaging and it doesn’t allow for self-paced learning of important material. Sitting in a meeting room is one thing but sitting through a distracting web conference to just be talked at is not ideal.

People see meetings like textbooks or assigned reading. You wouldn’t expect people to show up for a face to face meeting and have the presenter or team leader read from a textbook while the audience passively listens. So why try to do it in a live meeting? People prefer content to be served up to them on-demand so they can self-pace and time-shift their learning, which is one of the key benefits of on-demand streaming video.

‘Zoomed Out’

In the April 2 Chronicle of Higher Education article, ‘Zoomed Out’: Why ‘Live’ Teaching Isn’t Always the Best, Tanya Joosten, a senior scientist and director of digital learning research and development at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (the university is a Mediasite user), says that professors are flocking to real-time videoconferencing because it feels initially like the best alternative for teaching face to face. However, that is not the best way to teach online.

“Videoconferencing tools end up encouraging ‘Teacher-centered learning,” Joosten said in the article.

The reporter writes that while these platforms are meant to “facilitate multiway interaction,” they quickly turn into “one-way communication after a certain number of people join in.”

 

Ready for tomorrow’s online teaching, research and meetings?

Teaching
– Lectures: Mediasite
– Office hours: Zoom
– Course General communication: Twitter private accounts of my courses.
– Moodle

Research
– Group meeting: Zoom
– Writing: prepare papers, prelims, grants and sponsor reports

— Nelson Vinueza (@nrvinueza) March 22, 2020

“You and me and four of our colleagues can jump into a Zoom room – OK,” Joosten said in the article. “Thirty of us jump into a Zoom room – how interactive is that? … When you put students in small groups, there’s peer learning. They can utilize each other as tech support. It’s just a much better way to go than trying to have these large-group, synchronous, live sessions to replicate the face-to-face.” [Read the full article here.]

The 3 Pillars to Successful Virtual Learning

Like anything, the right tool for the job is critical. Fully virtualized campuses need to establish three pillars of technology to be successful.

1. Web conferencing: Zoom was the immediate go-to tech for most campuses. Yes, it’s great for office hours, real-time dialogue with students, for students working together on projects. But that’s just one piece of it.
2. Streaming video: This lets students learn at their own pace. It’s perfect for lectures, micro-learning or delivering content ahead of an office hours or group dialog session on Zoom. Students are pushing back because they don’t see use of Zoom/Teams as effective for lectures. They want on-demand video recordings to watch on their own time.
3. The LMS: A learning management system is the obvious structure to all of this, whether in person or virtual.

How to find that balance

Zoom is not the end-all, be-all of technologies for going virtual, though it certainly plays a major role as the new “virtual classroom.” Mediasite is playing an equally major role of “library/textbook/advanced reading before that virtual class.”

Don’t just focus on being synchronous (live). Flipping instruction during this crisis and not simply replicating the classroom model online is critical to the success of this new normal now and as schools prepare for the likely possibility of a virtual fall semester.

Post crisis once classes resume on campus, a blended approach to virtual learning is the likely path. There won’t be a world where campuses stay 100 percent virtual, so a mix of physical and virtual classrooms together with online learning is the more persistent long-term solution.

Dona, the XJTLU business school instructor, agrees.

“Instead of my taking 20 to 30 minutes to explain a theory in a class of 50 where some students already know it, technology can allow those who don’t understand the concept to drill into that information. I then have more time to spend doing individual coaching,” he said. “Now that we have had this experience with online teaching, I don’t think we will every go back entirely to the way we taught before.”

Read the full Campus Technology article about XJTLU here.

A live blog is a communication platform to cover rapidly developing news stories and events. While this concept has been around for years, journalists and others are still finding new ways to use live blogging to bring important information to the public.

How A Live Blog Works 

A live blog gives the reader a stream of updates about a rapidly developing news story. For example, journalists have used live updating for years to cover elections where vote counts and other factors constantly change.

A successful live blog requires an app like Arena Live Blog installed on your website. Second, you need one or more people to create engaging content updates for your live blog. Third, a live blog is successful when it is about an event that many people find interesting.

Live Blog For News

Thanks to innovative journalists, the live blog concept (also known as live blogging) first became well-known. The live blog approach to news coverage is best suited to news stories with rapidly changing developments and intense public interest. Live blogs are commonly used to cover elections and significant sporting events.

A few examples will illustrate how journalists use live blogs to provide up-to-date coverage and analysis of current affairs. 

Successful News Live Blogs

These live blog examples show how news organizations have used live blogs to engage their audiences.

The 2021 Climate Summit

The last climate summit was held in Glasgow in the fall of 2021. Given the impact of climate change on the world, many world leaders attended the United Nations event. CNBC had a live blog dedicated to the event as it unfolded. 

CNBC published posts at ad posts at 12:30 pm, 12 pm, 9 am, 8:44 am, 8:31 am, 7:28 am, 6:28 am, and other times in a single day’s coverage. Each of these posts was relatively short, typically featuring an attention-grabbing quote. These updates would be too short to work as a standalone article. By posting multiple updates throughout the date, CNBC gave its audience a reason to keep returning to their website. 

CNN also had a live blog dedicated to covering the climate summit. CNN’s approach to covering the event featured even more updates. In a single live blog post, CNN published over fifty short updates. Like CNBC, the CNN live blog coverage featured quotes from politicians. However,  CNN also included photos for most of their posts.

Image Credit: CNN

The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine

Earlier this year, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. As the war unfolded, journalists have used live blogs to tell the story from various perspectives. 

Image Credit: Washington Post

The Washington Post live blog on the war features a multi-media approach with text posts, videos, and images from the front. Users also can listen to the live blog updates in audio format. Offering live blog content in audio format is a creative way to increase the reach of your live blog. The Washington Post live blog includes updates from the war zone and broader developments such as the impact of the war on trade.

The ABC News live blog concerning the war provides coverage of the war in a single day. The news outlet reported on the changing diplomatic situation as more countries considered NATO membership. The live blog also features photos of the war, political leaders, and other aspects of the developing situation.

Image Credit: ABC News

As the war continues to develop, news outlets are likely to continue using live blogging. As the war impacts more and more people worldwide, interest in live updates is likely to increase.

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The Liveblogging Benefits For News

Running a live blog on a breaking news story is one of the best ways to stand out. A live blog is a powerful way to present your coverage when a critical news story comes up.

By running a live blog covering a significant event, news outlets give their audiences a reason to keep coming back for regular updates. As we’ve seen in some of the examples above, you can publish several updates per hour in some cases. Each live blog post adds new insight to your audience and the opportunity to generate revenue.

Live Blog For Companies

While journalists and media outlets most commonly use live blogging, companies can also use it. For a corporate live blog to gather attention, think about your event from the perspective of your favorite journalists at NBC News, Fox News, or other publications. It’s essential to report the facts of the event and help viewers understand why the issue matters.

The easiest way for a company to get started with a live blog is to focus on conferences and trade shows. Specifically, start with conferences that already draw significant crowds like the annual events run by Apple, Facebook, and Google. 

There are two main ways to use a live blog with a significant corporate event. If your company is the host of the event, you can run an official live blog to share highlights from the event. This is a powerful way to extend the value of the event beyond those attending. Alternatively, bloggers and specialized media outlets can use live blogs to cover the event directly.

Image Credit: The Verge‍

To see how a live blog can work for company news, look at The Verge. The publication’s live blog had a live blog focused on the event’s keynote address. Unlike the live blog examples covered above, The Verge’s updates are closer to tweets than traditional posts. Many of the updates are just a few sentences long. The Verge live blog also included some image-only posts. 

For a different perspective, look at TechRadar’s coverage of the Mobile World Congress 2022. TechRadar took a team approach to develop its coverage with staff on the ground at the event in Barcelona and others providing support from further afield. The TechRadar live blog also emphasizes short updates such as bullet-point lists of new products. 

Image Credit: TechRadar‍

TechRadar’s live blog also shows how to respond to the uneven nature of events. The live blog points out that most companies participating in the event make product announcements early. That begs the question – how do you sustain the live blog if the most prominent news has already happened? The TechRadar solution is to add other types of coverage like analysis and feature-length articles to its live blog. 

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How To Get Live Blog Coverage For Your Company

Getting early coverage for a new product through a live blog is beneficial. There are a few ways you can increase your odds of earning coverage. Put yourself in the journalist’s shoes for a moment. Reporters and bloggers often want to be the first to cover a story. So, consider offering exclusive coverage for some time to get your company featured on a live blog. In addition, it is essential to prepare high-quality photos and images that can be freely used. You don’t want your big announcement to be undermined by out-of-focus or unclear photos taken at an event.

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10 Tips To Launch Your First Live Blog 

Launching your first live blog is exciting! Use these tips to plan and make the most of your live blog opportunity. 

1. Identify live blog opportunities

Setting up your foundation for live blog success starts with selecting the right opportunity. Think about what your audience is excited about. Are they passionate about politics? If so, reading in-depth coverage of an election, including commentary on debates, might be a good fit. Ideally, your live blog should ride a wave of interest if it already attracts significant interest.

2. Install and test your live blog app

Set up your live blog software once you have a clear live blog opportunity in mind. Arena live blog is designed to be installed and set up quickly. Arena’s Live Blog solution is designed to be installed fast, so you can be up and running in less than an hour.

Once you choose your live blog technology, install and test it a day or two before the event. Testing the platform in advance is brilliant because you want to minimize embarrassing mistakes in front of your audience. 

3. Prepare posts and coverage in advance

Even the most exciting breaking news event will have slow periods. Take inspiration from TechRadar’s live blog. They prepared analysis and feature articles in advance of covering a technology event. Aim to prepare at least two or three posts in advance of the event so that you can prepare accordingly. 

Tip: Some breaking news stories and events develop so quickly that it is challenging to prepare content in advance. In that case, you can still prepare but in a different way. For example, contact a few people to ask if they would be willing to be interviewed for your live blog.

4. Start your live blog early

Attracting an audience to a new live blog can take some time. With scheduled events like elections and conferences, starting your coverage early gives you the advantage of building an audience faster.

5. Use a variety of media in your posts

While most live blogs are built on a foundation of written posts, that is no longer your only option. At a minimum, include original photos and images in your posts. Short videos can also work well if you can produce videos quickly.

6. Emphasize short updates

By convention, live blog posts are relatively short. Most live blogs are a few short paragraphs in length. If you have longer updates to share, consider posting an entire article elsewhere and then creating a short post to link to that post in your live blog.

7. Recognize the need for corrections 

A live blog assumes rapid coverage of a developing event by its nature. If your coverage has an error, resist the temptation to delete the older update. 

Deleting an older incorrect update may be interpreted as covering up the news. Instead, include a link to another post where you provide the correction. Responding quickly to errors is the better way to engage your audience.

8. Engage your audience with live chat 

Most traditional live blogs are one-way conversations with the minimal ability for the audience to participate. It doesn’t have to be that way! Add a live chat app to your website to bring your audience even deeper into the conversation. 

Find out more about Arena Live Chat and how easily it can be installed on any website in minutes. Arena also supports popular publishing platforms like WordPress.

9. Share your live blog on social media

Want to get more people on your live blog? Use a live blog app that offers one-click social media sharing. Sharing a few posts to your social media accounts is an excellent way to bring more people back to your website.

10. Get ready for your next live blog

After your live chat session ends, it’s time to take stock of the event. Meet with your team and review your performance. Start with the positive – what topics resonated most with your audience? Keep those topics and angles in mind when planning your next live blog.

Next, look for opportunities to improve. For example, your staff might have found it very stressful to publish a large number of updates throughout the day. It’s possible to ease this stress in a few ways. You can prepare more content in advance of the event. Or you can add additional staff to the live blog or reduce the number of posts.

The Simple Way To Get Started In Live Blogging

Your next step is simple and easy. You can install Arena’s liveblogging software in minutes. After you have the software installed, set aside time to brainstorm ideas. 

The first step in launching your Live Blog is to sign up for Arena Live Blog. It can be installed on nearly any website in sixty seconds by uploading a short piece of code. 

Contact us now to arrange a free demo