ShareStream To Co-host Webinar on Best Practices for Rich Media in Higher Education with Georgetown University and Sun Microsystems

ShareStream, a leading provider of rich media-management and delivery platforms for higher education, announced this week that it will be co-hosting a Webinar with Sun Microsystems Inc. titled "Best Practices for Rich Media Initiatives in Higher Education with Georgetown University." The Webinar, which will be lead by Charles Leonhardt, Georgetown University's principle technologist will take place Monday, November 30th at 1 PM EST.

Through a discussion of ShareStream, a technology developed in collaboration with Georgetown University at its Sun Center of Excellence, Mr. Leonhardt will share his experiences with successfully implementing an institution-wide rich media platform that currently serves over 400 courses, delivering over 250,000 on-demand requests for content last semester. For a full description of the Webinar, please visit: http://www.sharestream.com/sun-webinar-2009-11.php

"The Sun Center of Excellence for Scholarly Information at Georgetown and ShareStream have worked together collaboratively for over four years to develop a robust rich media environment. We look forward to sharing our challenges and how we've met them with the attendees," stated Charles Leonhardt.

"ShareStream has learned a great deal from its longstanding collaboration with Georgetown University at its Sun Center of Excellence," stated David Weinstein, CEO of ShareStream. "Georgetown University's deployment of ShareStream is one of our flagship implementations, and I am very excited about sharing our experiences over the years with the higher education and e-Learning community at large in this Webinar with our partners at Sun Microsystems."

"It is great to see the ShareStream solution being developed and tested via this industry and academic collaboration. It has a fantastic potential and value to the whole academic side of the campus concerned with creation, management, and sharing of digital content," stated Art Pasquinelli, Education Market Strategist for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

ShareStream is a rich media management and delivery platform that allows educational institutions to store, manage, and preserve all of their licensed and institutionally-generated rich media content (video, audio, lectures, podcasts, images, etc.) in a centralized system and seamlessly deliver content globally into a variety of learning management systems (including Blackboard, Sakai, and eCollege,) running across university networks, while controlling content dissemination via higher-education-specific digital rights management.

ShareStream's platform, a turnkey solution for higher education's rich media needs, provides the means to digitize large multimedia collections in an automated fashion; archive media assets with the appropriate metadata; house and manage media in an enterprise-wide asset-management system; tightly control access to copyrighted content via higher education-specific digital rights management; deliver media within online learning environments via streaming, downloads, and podcasts; create video and audio clips; author Web 2.0 learning objects comprised of video, audio, podcasts, images, and segments from e-books; and audit all user and content accesses via a reporting and business intelligence tool.

ShareStream bundles its rich media platform with Sun Microsystems' line of high-performance server and storage solutions to provide higher education an 'all-in-one' solution for their rich media management and delivery needs. ShareStream is an active participant in Sun Microsystems' Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and its Immersion Special Interest Group, which focuses on the new Virtual 3-D Environments for learning, collaboration and training. ShareStream's rich media management and delivery platform can be implemented as the back-end repository for virtual worlds created using Project Wonderland.

ShareStream's clients include both not-for-profit and for-profit universities and colleges. ShareStream's platform is currently being used to serve traditional "bricks-and-mortar" universities, career-focused colleges, blended-learning universities, and fully online distance-learning institutions.

About ShareStream Education Resources, LLC

ShareStream provides secure, enterprise-wide rich media-management platforms and streaming, downloading, and podcasting services designed specifically for the unique needs of higher education. The ShareStream platform, developed in collaboration with higher education at Georgetown University, provides educational institutions with the technological tools specific to their workflow to allow them to operate as state-of-the-art educational media organizations to achieve the maximum benefit from their content. For more information, please visit www.sharestream.com.

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