Cancellation of Live Events : COVID-19 Outbreak

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CANCELLATION OF LIVE EVENTS COVID-19 OUTBREAK
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance
is mandatory for any virtual or outdoor events
like street festivals, marathons, church worship,
sports tournaments, music events etc. Event
organizers should ensure the outdoor events or
virtual events are accessible to people with
disabilities.
CaptiongStar being a pioneer in the field of Real
time and Remote Captioning services for several
years has made a remarkable contribution while
serving its clients from different
industries.CaptioningStar has served 5,000
clients and have successfully conducted 300 live
events captioned so far.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance
is mandatory for any virtual or outdoor events
like street festivals, marathons, church worship,
sports tournaments, music events etc. Event
organizers should ensure the outdoor events or
virtual events are accessible to people with
disabilities.
CaptiongStar being a pioneer in the field of Real
time and Remote Captioning services for several
years has made a remarkable contribution while
serving its clients from different
industries.CaptioningStar has served 5,000
clients and have successfully conducted 300 live
events captioned so far.
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CaptioningStar diligently follows the guidelines
set forth by ADA (Americans with Disability ACT)
that includes providing accessible parking
spaces, easy navigation throughout the event,
(people with wheelchairs, canes, walkers are
assisted and are able to access the event without
any hindrance), portable restrooms etc. The
primary focus of ADA act is to prevent anyone
from being discriminated against on the basis of
disability.
COVID-19 Effect on Live Captioning events
It was yet another day when CaptioningStar
started acquiring leads for Live Captioning
events that were supposed to be scheduled in the
month of March.
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When CaptioningStar were all set to proceed
further with the lead enquiries there was a
sudden global outbreak where WHO on March 11,
2020 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the situation
where no one would have even imagined in their
wildest dreams.
More than 2,00,000 have contracted the disease
and as a precautionary measure to protect people
from getting affected, the U.S. Government along
with Live event planners have been cancelling the
events to avoid public gatherings from any major
technical conferences to minor concerts.
On March 15, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released a notice that all large
events and mass gatherings to be avoided in order
to regulate the spread of COVID-19 in the United
States.
The title of the video, description and tags are
the key elements. Not many YouTube users however
realize that closed captions and transcripts
positively influences user engagement, watch
time, viewership, and obviously SEO.
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On the whole 10 to 15 Onsite Live Captioning
events of CaptioningStar have been cancelled and
to our surprise potential Leads started
generating for Remote Live Captioning service.

1. Salesforce Connections

Salesforce Connections, originally planned to be
held in Chicago between April 4-6 will now be an
online event. Organizers have issued a notice
stating After careful consideration, weve
decided there will be no physical event for
connections. Instead, we will reimagine
Connections as a virtual experience and deliver a
full program of inspiring sessions and
educational content. While times may be
uncertain, there is one thing that remains true
amazing things happen whenever the Salesforce
community comes together. We are excited to come
together virtually for Connections and we look
forward to sharing more details in the coming
weeks.
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2. St.Joseph
St.Joseph today at Michigan has postponed the
BBQ,Blues and Bluegrass event and has rescheduled
to October 3, 2020.
3. The Football Association
The Football Association, the Premier League, the
English Football League, FA Womens Super League
and FA Womens Championship have all called a
halt to the action until the beginning of April.
4. Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball delayed the start of its
regular season until May at the earliest. The
league declared on March 16 the move was made in
accordance with recommendations from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention against
gatherings of 50 people or more for eight weeks.
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5. The Ladies European Tours
The Ladies European Tours Aramco Saudi Ladies
International was postponed with a view to it
being rescheduled later in the year.
6. The South Bend
The South Bend Civic Theatre and the South Bend
Symphony Orchestra have postponed the upcoming
production of West Side Story. The full
theatrical production was originally set to be
performed on April 18 and 19 at the Morris
Performing Arts Center.
7. CinemaCon2020
CinemaCon, scheduled to take place at Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas from March 30-April 2,2020
has been cancelled.Since the global circumstances
make it impossible for them to host the show
thereby they have made a decision to cancel the
event CinemaCon2020.
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8. E3
E3, one of the worlds largest video game
convention and trade shows, scheduled from June
9-11 in Los Angeles, has been cancelled. Due to
the unprecedented global situation,organizers
have made the right decision and are planning to
provide an online experience to showcase industry
news and announcements to their fans and
supporters in June 2020
9. First United Methodist
First United Methodist Church in Michigan is
suspending the people gatherings, including
worship until April.
10. Popular Baugo
Popular Baugo Community Schools in Michigan will
be closed from March 17 through April 13. They
have effectively planned to implement an
elearning curriculum to handle the situation and
have made necessary arrangements for students.
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11. IACC Americas Connect
IACC Americas Connect , scheduled to take place
in Dallas on March 30- April 1 has been postponed
to June 29 - July 1. IACC CEO Marc Cooper and
IACC Americas President Nancy Lindemer said in a
statement on March 11 that The IACC board of
directors and all those involved in putting
together the annual meeting, believe that Connect
should be the catalyst event for our members to
begin looking forward and rebuilding again once
the worst of COVID-19 is behind us.
12. Disney Parks
Disney Parks in the United States has announced
that it would close its theme park through the
end of March until the situation gets better.
13. The National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters
announced on March 11 that it would postpone or
potentially cancel its annual NAB Show, planned
in Las Vegas on April 18-22 at the Las Vegas
Convention Center.
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14. The National Cannabis Risk Management
Association
The National Cannabis Risk Management Association
has postponed its NCRMA 2020 convention,
scheduled to be held March 22-24 at Ballys in
Las Vegas.
15. New York Philharmonic
In New York, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York
Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall declined
performances through the end of the month.
16. Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Group, parent company of
Northstar Meetings Group, announced that the GTM
West event has been moved to Sept. 19-21 at the
Westin La Paloma in Tucson, Ariz due to the
COVID-19 outbreak.
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17. Grace College
Grace College has canceled on-campus classes and
temporarily closed residence halls until April
13. Classes are canceled and prepared for remote
instruction. Classes will move to remote delivery
beginning Wednesday, March 18.
18. Plymouth Community
Plymouth Community School Corporation announced
that schools will be closed for March and
encouraged e-learning on replacing the school
closure.
19. Indiana University
Indiana University has suspended all in-person
classes for the remainder of the spring semester
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20. Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan College has planned to cancel all
classes till March 23 and encouraged the students
to take up online classes.
21. Los Angeles Time Festival
Los Angeles Time Festival of Books at USC Campus
have rescheduled the event to October 3-4.
22. 24th Annual Webby
24th Annual Webby Awards event has been cancelled
in Newyork and the winners are supposed to be
announced online via an Internet celebration.
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23. Nvidia GTC
Nvidia GTC GPU Technology Conference to be held
from Mar. 22-26 in San Jose, CA in-person
canceled and planned to execute online-only event.
24. Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next to be held in San Francisco
Apr. 6-8 i In-person canceled paving the way for
the online event.
25. ESRI Developer Summit
ESRI Developer Summit (Mar. 10) in-person
canceled paving the way for online-only event
26. WorldWide Developers Conference 2020
Apples WorldWideDevelopersConference 2020 will
take on an entirely new online format packed with
content for consumers, press and developers alike.
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27. Adobe Summit
Adobe Summit planned event from Mar 29 - April 2
in Las Vegas has been cancelled and an online
event will take place.
28. The National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters
announced on March 11 that it would postpone or
potentially cancel its annual NAB Show, planned
in Las Vegas on April 18-22 at the Las Vegas
Convention Center.
29. The American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society cancelled its
Spring 2020 National Meeting Expo, scheduled to
take place March 22-26 in Philadelphia, drawing
15,000 attendees.
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30. 2020 IHN Empty Bowl
The 2020 IHN Empty Bowl Soup Benefit hosted by
the Goshen Clay Artists Guild has been postponed
until any further notice.
31. TED 2020
TED 2020, originally scheduled to be held in
Vancouver on April 20-24, has been postponed to
July 20-26, or high possibilities while making
the event fully virtual.
32. Ace Hardware 2020
The Ace Hardware 2020 Spring Convention,
tentatively to begin from last March 11-14 in
Chicago, has been cancelled.
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Webinar Products Supported by CaptioningStar to
Handle a Pandemic influenza
CaptioningStar identifies the underlying factors
and handles this crisis well effectively by
supporting the Remote Live Captioning services
through different Webinar products. The Webinar
products such as GoToWebinar, Zoom, StreamText,
Live Stream, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook are
extensively used by CaptioningStar to offer
Remote Live Captioning service to our clients.
One of the main advantages of Remote Captioning
services are cost-effectiveness, Captioning can
be done at relatively shorter notice and
effectively replace the Onsite Live Captioning
service especially during the time of
crisis.Captioners at CaptioningStar are trained
rigorously to manage the situation with no
compromise on quality of captions produced.
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CaptioningStars Slash in Rates due to crisis
At CaptioningStar, our mission is to make it easy
for our customers to utilize the power of video
captioning, especially at the time of crisis
where directly engaging with customers is
critical and employees working remotely.In order
to mitigate the pain CaptioningStar slashed our
original rates for Captioning Services from 175
to 130 A small step from our end to provide
relief to customers during this time of crisis.
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Thankfully development in technology and easy
access to the internet round the clock have
helped us to work remotely with full safety and
to manage the situation without any effect on day
to day business. Thus Remote Live Captioning is
a real boon to the captioning field where
captioners can work from remote locations while
maintaining a social distance from the rest of
the world.
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