Alive.com Nonprofit Streaming Media Program Goes National; Free Offering Helps Nonprofits Bring Messages to the Web.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 1999-- Alive.com, a Seattle-based streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. applications and services company, today announced a free program to help nonprofit organizations enhance their online messaging by placing promotional videos and public service announcements on the World Wide Web. Nonprofit organizations from around the country are invited to complete a registration form on the Alive.com Web site and qualify to receive the tools and technology for creating streaming media communications on the Internet. Interested 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations can find the registration form and additional information at http://www.alive.com/nonprofit.htm. Alive.com's program for nonprofit organizations will be offered nationally for a limited time. This program is announced in conjunction with the Nonprofits and Technology tradeshow in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on July 22nd and 23rd where Alive.com can be found at booth No. 22. Alive e-Show offers nonprofits the ability to add streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video, images, and graphics to fund raising pitches, event promotions, and member education to create dynamic, multimedia communications. Alive e-Show provides all tools necessary to develop and distribute streaming media content including creation, integration, media-synchronization and Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. without any HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. knowledge. Qualified participants receive an evaluation copy of Alive e-Show, 30 days of streaming media hosting on AliveCentral, a "Getting Started with Alive e-Show" booklet and a certificate for discounted video encoding services from Seattle-based encoding.com, a co-sponsor of the program (http://www.encoding.com). "After the success of our regional nonprofit pilot program, we wanted to extend streaming media capabilities to other nonprofit organizations nationally that want to enhance their Web sites," said Suzanne Swift Suzanne Swift (July 15 1984 - ) is a Specialist in the United States Army. She is most noted for going AWOL from the Army when she received new orders to deploy to Iraq, after her charges of sexual assault from her first deployment had continued to go unanswered. , Product Marketing Manager for Alive.com. "We are offering a complete set of tools that allow organizations to participate in advanced Web technology without IT support or technical assistance. As the Internet becomes a pervasive communication medium for nonprofits, we want to ensure that organizations have the ability to use it effectively." In a pilot program announced last month, Alive.com invited nonprofit organizations to send videotapes, which the Company converted into e-shows for Internet viewing and distribution. The pilot program generated phenomenal responses from local and national nonprofit organizations including Care International, The Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate, Mothers Against Violence in America, and Northwest Harvest Northwest Harvest is a non-profit organization supporting food banks in Washington State, U.S.A. Founded with a somewhat broader agenda of "respond[ing] to pressing social needs" by five church denominations in Seattle, Washington in 1967 as Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry . "Alive.com helped us bring dynamically rich multimedia content to our Web site," said Mike Seely of Mothers Against Violence in America. "Alive e-Show allowed us to demonstrate the power and emotion of our messages and enabled them to be placed and distributed online." About Alive.com Seattle-based Alive.com develops streaming media software and services that make the Web a more effective communication vehicle for everyone. Alive e-Show and Alive Central allow anyone to create streaming media communications and distribute them over the Internet. Alive e-Show is priced at $195 and is available through standard software channels and online distribution, including Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IM), Beyond.com (Nasdaq:BYND), and RealNetworks, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:RNWK RNWK Real Networks (stock symbol) ) RealStore. AliveCentral is available direct from Alive.com. For more information about Alive.com and its products call 206/674-7700, 888/386-9969 for sales, or visit www.alive.com. |
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