Sonic Foundry to Webcast Groundbreaking Meeting Innovation Lab; Event Camp Twin Cities
Live webcasts via Mediasite will connect onsite, online and regional pods in a pioneering hybrid event for meeting professionals
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc.(NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management today announced its Event Services group will webcast live presentations at Event Camp Twin Cities, linking individuals participating in pods across the Unites States and around the world via Mediasite.
At the event, held August 25 – 26, remote and in-person attendees will explore new ways to use meeting technology, integrated gaming and social media combined with live streaming webcasts via Mediasite to collaborate in this experimental hybrid meeting.
"Sonic Foundry is more than just a webcasting partner for us. They jump in with both feet and bring reliable technology, thought-leadership and the opportunity to work with great people," said Samuel J. Smith, co-founder of Event Camp Twin Cities. "At the same time Mediasite allows us to amplify our event and collaborate in real-time with several pod sites plus people all over the world from their desktops. If it weren't for webcasting our event would be limited to the 120 people onsite. The webcast library gives us incredible reach beyond the live event. Last year we had more than 1,000 views of the full on-demand program. That's powerful."
Event Camp Twin Cities will be joined by five remote pods across the globe: San Jose, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Individuals can also participate from their desktops through an interactive social media portal leveraging Facebook that includes live webcasts via Mediasite, and by following the conference on Twitter using hashtag #ectc11.
Over the course of this week's events, attendees have twenty sessions to choose from including two by Erica St. Angel, vice president of marketing for Sonic Foundry:
- "Fortune Telling: 5 Predications for Funding Virtual and Hybrid Events" (live on August 25 at 1:45 p.m. Central)
- Pecha Kucha, "Beyond Twitter: A Real-Life Tale of How Attendees Socialize Online" Erica St. Angel (live on August 26 during the Social Media Learning Block beginning at 8:10 a.m. Central)
Registration for the virtual attendee pass is free. To register, visit http://eventcamptwincities2011.eventbrite.com/.
Event Camp was created by the #eventprofs Twitter community in 2010. Since its first event in New York, Event Camps have been held in Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Chicago. Mediasite presentation archives from Event Camp Twin Cities 2010 are available at http://eventcamptwincities.com/post-event/ .
The conferences will be webcast by Sonic Foundry's Event Services, a leading provider of webcasting services for hybrid events and virtual conferences. The group supplies technical webcasting services and expertise to organizations who seek to complement their conference or event with viewing over the web. Since its launch in January 2007, the Event Services group has provided live and on-demand webcasting for clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations and university associations to sporting events and charitable organizations.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO, www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise communication solutions for education, business and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Event Services group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve performance. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.
Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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