Live Webinar With Noble Financial: What Does Your Webcast Say About Your Event and Your Brand?

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management will host a complimentary webinar, "Judging a Book by Its Cover: What Does Your Webcast Say About Your Event and Your Brand?" featuring Mark Pinvidic, Managing Partner at Noble Financial. WHEN: Tuesday, October 27, 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. CentralWHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit www.sonicfoundry.com/register/noble/?sm=6Each year, Noble Financial's Capital Markets Group hosts a two-day annual equity conference that brings together the executive teams of public companies and potential institutional investors. And each year, due to scheduling conflicts, budget constraints and travel restrictions, many investors wanted to see the company presentations but simply could not attend.This led Noble to become an early adopter of webcasting, but Pinvidic found the interface of webcasting platforms common within the investment community sorely lacking. They offered only the presentation audio and PowerPoint slides, sometimes required viewers to advance the slides manually and often prompted advance downloads which took too much time to install - an overall user experience which did not accurately ...
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Sloan-C Selects Sonic Foundry as Virtual Conference Partner

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Sloan-C booth #511) -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced the company's Mediasite15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning at the Caribe Royale Orlando Resort. As the leading conference in online and blended learning, Sloan-C connects learners, instructors and experts around the globe with an enormous range of resources to support learning that is both highly individualized and highly collaborative. In support of that initiative Sloan-C is providing live webcasts of sessions powered by Mediasite as part of a virtual offering for remote attendees.Within the conference website attendees have the opportunity to build their own conference schedules, view streamed speaker sessions via embedded Mediasite Players, and message within the conference community in real time with Mediasite's question and answer feature as well as a social media tool. The webcasted sessions will be available on-demand for all attendees after the conference."Creating a blended conference, and leveraging technologies like Mediasite, complements the work we do in online education. By embedding the Mediasite Player with Silverlight we created a complete...
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Sonic Foundry to Webcast EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2009, Face-to-Face and Online

DENVER, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (booth #443) -- Even with campus travel bans and budget cuts, the higher education community can still attend the 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), an EDUCAUSE Gold Partner and the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced that its Mediasite platform will be used to create a blended event by recording and streaming online presentations from EDUCAUSE 2009, taking place November 3 - 6 in Denver, Colorado. The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, "The Best Thinking in Higher Ed IT," delivers thought leadership, community interaction and educational insights to all professionals in higher education. This year, EDUCAUSE is offering a virtual conference pass. The online event includes 13 featured sessions plus concurrent presentations, a campus facilitator kit with tools a...
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Sonic Foundry Board Approves One-for-Ten Reverse Stock Split

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a one-for-ten reverse stock split of its common stock. The reverse split will be effective at 6:01 p.m. ET on November 16, 2009. The reverse stock split affects all issued shares of the Company's common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness of the reverse stock split. The number of shares reserved for issuance under Sonic Foundry's equity compensation plans will also be reduced proportionately. Sonic Foundry's common stock will start trading on a split-adjusted basis on the NASDAQ Capital Market at market open on November 17, 2009. Letters of transmittal are expected to be sent to stockholders shortly thereafter.The number of shares of Sonic Foundry's common stock issued and outstanding will be reduced from approximately 36,069,000 shares to approximately 3,606,900 shares post-split, without accounting for fractional shares. Sonic Foundry will not issue any fractional shares of its common stock as a result of the reverse stock split. Instead, stockholders who would otherwise hold fractional shares will be entitled to receive cash (without interest or deduction) in lieu of such fractional shares in an amount equal to the fraction to which the stockholder would otherwise be entitled multiplied by the closing sales price of Sonic Foundry's common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Capital Market on November 16, 2009, as adjusted for the reverse stock split.Son...
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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 - News), 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. CentralWHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit www.sonicfoundry.com/register/h1n1/?sm=6Elgiadi will cover how to:...
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Leading Analyst Firm Highlights Sonic Foundry as Sample Vendor in Hype Cycle for Education

DENVER, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (EDUCAUSE booth #443) - Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced that Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, has included Sonic Foundry as a sample vendor for lecture capture and retrieval tools in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Education. The Hype Cycle 2009 analyzes the maturity of up to 1,650 technologies and developments currently present in various fields. According to the report, lecture capture and retrieval tools are emerging technologies that are expected to be adopted into the mainstream within two to five years."Lecture capture and retrieval tools have tentatively shown to have some effect on student grades and retention, and they promise to be important pedagogical tools," said Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner research analyst in the report. "The ability to index lectures and the ability to offer playback of selected passages have proven key to these positive results."Throughout the past several years classroom technology has evolved from a consideration to a necessity, allowing unique educational moments to be translated into online learning sessions. Lecture capture is no longer a niche tool; it has a mainstream applicati...
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Atitude Digital Media Uses Mediasite for Pandemic Planning, Takes Large Conferences Virtual

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As more companies and organizations take measures to protect their employees from the H1N1 virus, more conferences and meetings are going virtual with Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management. Atitude Digital Media, a leading webcast services provider in Brazil, uses Mediasite to create online events, uniting individuals around the world from their desktops, saving time and money, and preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus. The firm will discuss how it created these virtual conferences during a complimentary live webinar today at 1:00 central. Registration is free at www.sonicfoundry.com/register/brazil/?sm=6.Atitude recently worked with the training department at Sanofi-Aventis to turn their quarterly training meeting...
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Sonic Foundry slashes share count

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Sonic Foundry Announces Completion of One-for-Ten Reverse Stock Split on NASDAQ

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News) today announced that its previously reported one-for-ten reverse stock split of the Company's common stock was completed effective 6:01 p.m. ET on November 16, 2009. Trading of Sonic Foundry's common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market will begin on a split-adjusted basis at the open of trading today, November 17, 2009. Sonic Foundry's shares will continue to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "SOFO", with the letter "D" added to the end of the trading symbol for a period of 20 trading days to indicate the reverse stock split has occurred. The Company's symbol will revert back to its original symbol "SOFO" on December 15, 2009.As a result of the reverse stock split, every ten shares of Sonic Foundry's common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time were combined into one share of common stock, subject to the payment of $0.55 for each pre-split common share, which would otherwise be converted into a post-split fractional common share.The number of shares of Sonic Foundry common stock issued and outstanding have been reduced from approximately 36,069,000 shares to approximately 3,606,900 shares post-split, without accounting for the payout on the fractional shares.Letters of transmittal are expected to be sent to stockholders shortly hereafter. No action by Sonic Foundry's stockholders is required prior to receipt of these letters.Additional information about the reverse sto...
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