ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Sloan-C booth #511) -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced the company's Mediasite platform will be used to webcast key sessions at the 15th 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 interactive conference platform that is perfect for fostering community and increasing engagement with between our on-site and virtual audiences," said John Bourne, Executive Director of Sloan-C. "We value the partnership with Sonic Foundry and look forward to working with them to continuously improve our conference offerings."

Sonic Foundry's Sean Brown will present "The Past, Present, and Future of Academic Webcasting" at the conference, discussing how the intersection of classroom design, pedagogical advancement, economic and environmental realities with a generation of digital learners has propelled classroom capture to the center of academic technology planning.

Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning is being webcasted by Sonic Foundry's Event Services group, a leading provider of webcasting for blended conferences and high-profile training events. The group and its strategic partners use the patented Mediasite webcasting platform to complement conferences or events 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 Sloan-C

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) ( www.sloanconsortium.org)supports the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction. Sloan-C maintains a catalog of degree and certificate programs offered by a wide range of regionally accredited member institutions, consortia, and industry partners; provides speakers and consultants to help institutions learn about online methodologies; hosts conferences and workshops to help implement and improve online programs; publishes the Sloan-C View, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), and annual volumes of applied research studies; and conducts research, annual surveys on online learning and forums to inform academic, government and private sector audiences. Sloan-C also offers an awards program and an effective practices database so members can share the lessons they have learned. Members include (1) private and public universities and colleges, community colleges and other accredited course and degree providers, and (2) organizations and suppliers of services, equipments, and tools that practice the Sloan-C quality principles.

About Sonic Foundry(R), Inc.

Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) 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.

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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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