Sonic Foundry Seeking Nominations For Eighth Annual Rich Media Impact Awards

, today announced its official call for nominations for the eighth annual Rich Media Impact Awards (RMIA), an honor that recognizes excellence in the practicalcreative integration of Mediasite in business, education, healthgovernment. 

All RMIA finalists in attendance at UNLEASH 2012 will have the chance to win a during a drawing at the event. Also, Sonic Foundry will continue to award Student Impact Scholarships, wherein two student finalists will be named, along with the universities they attend. The student runner-up will receive a $1,500 scholarship. The winner will receive a $2,500 scholarshipthat student's university will also receive a Mediasite RL Recorder. 

Between nowFebruary 29 individuals can visit the  to submit nominations for their award-worthy projects. Finalists will be notified on March 26,winners will be announced at a special ceremony webcast live at , the Mediasite User Conference, taking place May 7-9 at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. 

"The Sam M. Walton College of Business was thrilled to be awarded a 2011 Rich Media Impact Award in the 'Prolific Use' category," said Jim Goodlander, associate director of technology at the college. "We've used Mediasite to deliver dissertations live for faculty members that were traveling, to create trainingorientation videos for new stafffaculty, to deliver a few classes across the globe to our partner college in New Delhi, India,much more. Having this award is a constant reminder of the benefits of webcastingmotivates us to continue communicating to the masses in newinnovative ways." 

Watch the RMIA submission Sam M. Walton College of Business made last year about how it uses Mediasite . 

The is also open to submit a speaking proposal. The deadline for submission is February 3. Speakers' UNLEASH conference pass, a $595 value, is free.

The Rich Media Impact Awards, introduced in 2005, have strengthened the by inspiring innovationhonoring more than 100 programs from around the world. The 2011 RMIA finalists can be found . 

Sonic Foundry is inviting nominations for individuals or groups who have done inspiring work in any of the following categories:

• Enterprise Award: recognizes a company who improved its business outcomes through rich media communication.

• Excellence in Education Award: recognizes a higher education institution that enhanced learningoutreach through rich media.

• Facility Design Award: recognizes a professional AV design or consulting firm that created innovative rich media roomsfacilities.

• Global Reach Award: recognizes any successful initiative that connected the international community through rich media.

• Government Award: recognizes a local, state or federal government initiative that implemented rich media for trainingoutreach.

• Healthcare Award: recognizes an organization that implemented rich media to benefit healthwellness.

• Prolific Use Award: recognizes an organization that has dramatically scaled its rich media program to achieve a broad deployment across its enterprise or record number of presentations, views or audiences.

• Rapid ROI Award: recognizes an organization that used rich media to quickly achieve a measurable ROI in its training, communications or outreach initiatives.

• Scholastic Achievement Award: recognizes a school district or other organization serving the K-12 educational community that harnessed the power of rich media to improve communication, learningoutreach.

 • Student Impact Award: recognizes an individual student, as well as his/her college or university, whose educational experience has been enhanced through rich media.

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