Sonic Foundry Seeking Nominations for Sixth Annual Rich Media Impact Awards
11 Décembre 2009 - 3:55PM
PR Newswire (US)
Deadline for entry: March 1, 2010 MADISON, Wis., Dec. 11
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFOD), the
recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge
management, is seeking nominations for the sixth annual Rich Media
Impact Awards, an annual honor to recognize excellence in the
practical and creative integration of Mediasite in business,
education, health and government. Mediasite users are invited to
create webcasts about their award-worthy projects and submit them
at http://www.sonicfoundry.com/nominate/?sm=6. Since its inception
in 2005, the Rich Media Impact Awards have strengthened the
Mediasite user community by inspiring innovation and honoring more
than 100 programs from around the world. Past winners can be viewed
here
(http://www.sonicfoundry.com/resources/impact-awards/past-winners/?sm=6)
and include Penn State Hershey, Russell Investments, EDHEC Business
School, Ontario Hospital Association, Fox School of Business at
Temple University and The Center for Rural Development. "Receiving
the Rich Media Impact Award for Government is a tremendous honor
for The Center for Rural Development. It is also testament to the
fact that streaming media can be a powerful and effective tool
capable of breaking down geographic barriers and bringing us all
closer together. The Center serves a large region in Southern and
Eastern Kentucky, and reaches across Kentucky and the nation with
other programs and services, so this award continues to inspire us
to seek new ways to utilize this technology to serve our customers
and change lives," said Lonnie Lawson, president and CEO of The
Center for Rural Development. "Thank you again to everyone at Sonic
Foundry for adding a scholarship for students to the RMIA awards to
help offset the expenses associated with education," said Student
Impact Award winner Jenna Lombardo, student at Northwestern
University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center. "I had a ball watching the
ceremony live from the comfort of my couch!" Deadline for entry is
March 1, and finalists will be notified on March 19. Winners will
be announced on April 14 at a special awards event during UNLEASH
2010, the Mediasite User Conference. The complete list of award
categories is: -- Enterprise Award: recognizes a company who
improved its business outcomes through rich media communication. --
Excellence in Education Award: recognizes a higher education
institution that enhanced learning and outreach through rich media.
-- Facility Design Award: recognizes a professional AV design or
consulting firm that created innovative rich media rooms and
facilities. -- Global Reach Award: recognizes any successful
initiative that connected the international community through rich
media. -- Government Award: recognizes a local, state or federal
government initiative that implemented rich media for training and
outreach. -- Healthcare Award: recognizes an organization that
implemented rich media to benefit health and wellness. -- Prolific
Use Award: recognizes an organization that has dramatically scaled
its rich media program to achieve a broad deployment across its
enterprise or record number of presentations, views or audiences.
-- Rapid ROI Award: recognizes an organization that used rich media
to quickly achieve a measurable ROI in its training, communications
or outreach initiatives. -- Scholastic Achievement Award:
recognizes a school district or other organization serving the K-12
educational community that harnessed the power of rich media to
improve communication, learning and outreach. -- Student Impact
Award: recognizes an individual student, as well as his/her college
or university, whose educational experience has been enhanced
through rich media. About Sonic Foundry®, Inc. Sonic Foundry
(NASDAQ:SOFODNASDAQ:www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for
rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing
enterprise communication solutions for 1,800 customers in
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 Events 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. DATASOURCE: Sonic Foundry, Inc.
CONTACT: Tammy Kramer of Sonic Foundry, Inc., +1-608-237-8592, Web
Site: http://www.sonicfoundry.com/
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