About us

Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO, www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management.

We were founded in 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin, and our first products were groundbreaking software applications that let the average person with a PC manipulate digital audio and video. Ten years later, we decided to solve bigger enterprise communication problems for corporations, universities and government agencies.

The result is Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform, which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings. Today, through the Mediasite platform and our Events Services group, we help our customers connect within a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge.

Why webcasting?

Three forms of communication – audio, visual and kinesthetic – each play a unique role in your ability to communicate and learn. We believe one reason people embrace the webcasting medium so fully is because it incorporates these combined ways of processing information: audio, video and visual aids, plus interactive navigation.

And beyond the engagement inherent to this medium, webcasting gives you the power to bridge time and distance. Simultaneously reach people in multiple locations. Get everyone on the same page at the same time. Create a real-time archive of knowledge and let people watch it again and again, anytime, anywhere.

Our vision for the future

We live by two main tenets: first, don’t change the way presenters present and second, get this recorded knowledge to the audience as quickly and as easily as possible.

Because webcasting is becoming an everyday part of the way people work and learn, we’re driven to shorten the time it takes people not only to share their information but also to find the information they need.

So while today leading-edge universities use Mediasite for lecture capture and corporations webcast training modules, we envision a future where people around the globe use webcasting to accelerate research and improve performance.

We believe in the future:

• Every classroom, every meeting hall, every conference room will have Mediasite in it, just as you see projectors now.
• Every minute of every day, millions of students around the world will log on to watch or review class via Mediasite.
• In every country on the planet, the most talented researchers will mediasite their findings and use powerful search technologies to spur major breakthroughs in science and medicine.
• Mediasite content will become standard operating procedure for every HR, customer service and training department, and workers will share their expertise within the workplace via webcast.
• Every CEO will address the entire global organization from his/her desk.
• Every conference will webcast each keynote, breakout and session.
• Greenhouse gases and carbon footprints will decrease. Grades, profits and company morale will increase – thanks in a small part to webcasting.

As a company, we’re helping create the libraries of tomorrow with technology that doesn’t compound the world’s information overload. We are working to put a human face on all knowledge online, and we believe the world will be more knowledgeable, more connected as a result.

Locations:

Madison, Wisconsin

Sonic Foundry Media Software:

On July 30, 2003, Sonic Foundry finalized the sale of its Desktop Software Division to Sony Pictures Digital. For more information see the acquisition press release.

Press Contact:

Tammy Kramer
608.237.8592
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Investor Contact:

Rob Schatz
Wolfe Axelrod Weinberger Assoc. LLC
212.370.4500
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Analyst Contact:

Kristin Zurovitch
608.443.1600
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