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Live Webinar - Fortify Your Institutional H1N1 Plan With Lecture Capture: Mediasite at Washington State University

Posted : Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:26 GMT
Author : Sonic Foundry, Inc.
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DENVER, Nov. 4 CO-SOFO-WSU-H1N1

DENVER, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (EDUCAUSE booth #443) -- As Washington State University's main campus was experiencing one of the largest early college outbreaks of the H1N1 flu virus, WSU Spokane was working on a pandemic and academic continuity plan that had lecture capture with Mediasite at its core.

Join Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, for a live webinar in which Saleh Elgiadi, Director of IT Services for WSU Spokane, will share his fundamental principles and practices included in the campus' comprehensive H1N1 and disaster recovery plans.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 10, 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Central
WHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit www.sonicfoundry.com/register/h1n1/?sm=6

Elgiadi will cover how to:

  • Minimize the impact of absences and closures through a combination of room-based course capture, videoconferencing, archived and pre-recorded lectures plus faculty recording remotely from home offices, all via Mediasite
  • Use a centralized approach to recorder management that provides more flexibility to capture multiple rooms as schedules change in response to flu management
  • Build a repository of online, on-demand educational materials to deliver to ill students in their homes as well as in case of mandated social distancing

Presenter:
Saleh Elgiadi is the director of information technology services, academic and research technologies at Washington State University in Spokane. He is responsible for the campus' Academic and Research computing, distance learning technologies, High Performance Computing, video and digital media production as well as strategic planning and policy development for those areas.

Elgiadi has over twenty years of experience working in higher education and has provided vision and leadership for a wide variety of successful information technology initiatives including an online employee training and development system, a course management system, High Definition videoconferencing, video-on-demand services, podcasting, and lecture capture and webcasting.

Elgiadi has a Bachelor in Computer Science and Mathematics from Eastern Washington University, and a Master in International Business Management from Whitworth University. He participates in professional organizations and has presented in local and national conferences.

Moderator:
Sean Brown, vice president of education, Sonic Foundry

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 more than 1,500 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.

SOURCE Sonic Foundry, Inc.


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