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

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

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.

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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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