Reprising the type of investigation that got Siebel into hot water a few years ago - the WSJ reports on the SEC’s probe of a Mylan analyst/investor day at its premises.

The event was not webcast.   Foolish on Mylan’s part - and foolish on the part of their IR firm - not to webcast a meeting with analysts and investors.   Any shift in stock price, the day of a private meeting, is a prima facie basis for an SEC investigation.   Pointing to a webcast is the best possible response.   Having no webcast to point to suggests either something to hide, or negligence.

We work mostly in the financial sector - but we specialize in webcasting live events.   We are doing live video from a 2 days sales meeting in California this week for a big software company.   What a great way to share the presentations with the rest of their firm - without having to fly the whole firm out to CA, or lose 2 days of productivity.

MeetMax and our sister company, Wall Street Webcasting, provide live and archived webcasts for 1000’s of conference sessions each year.  So, it is probably no accident that with the economy being what it is and event organizers working hard to maximize registrations,  I’ve heard from a number of people about how they would like to use webcasting to build attendance at events virtually.  Here are just two:

    * An international academic conference is planned for a week in a large city in Asia.  The organizers expect 2000 people to attend the 100 conference sessions in person, but they want to expand their reach by producing a shortened version for people to attend remotely.  Ten sessions will webcast live with viewers able to submit questions to the speakers via email.  The 10-session online version of the conference will then be available in an archived version for viewing later.  Different registration fees will apply for attending in-person, attending the live webcast version, or viewing the archived conference webcast.
    * A regional venture conference gives CEOs of start-ups an opportunity to get their story out to potential funders, partners and the media.  To expand their audience beyond local funders, they want to webcast the presentations.  To convey the sense of excitement in the room live, they will incorporate a Twitter feed into the webcast screen and display in the presentation room the Tweets from people attending both in person and remotely.