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Mark Sheridan Joins VoloMedia as Senior Director Business Development
September 4, 2008 3:21 PM
Hi Everyone! Welcome back from the long weekend! We
hope everyone enjoyed the extra day off as much as we did!
We are starting September off with some great news. We are very excited
that Mark Sheridan has joined us as our Senior Director of Business
Development. In this capacity, Mark will be focused on developing
opportunities with content publishers and strategic distribution
partnerships.
Mark brings over a decade of business development experience in the digital
media, content management, search and collaboration industries. Mark is joining us from Olive Software, a leader in
digital publishing solutions for media companies, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Previously, he was Director, Strategic Accounts, for
Autonomy Software Group (a leader in enterprise search). Mark has also held executive business development positions at EMC Enterprise
Software Group, Documentum and eRoom Technology. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
Mark is a proven dealmaker who is passionate about his work. His is
energetic and knowledgeable about the downloadable media and emerging
markets. More importantly, he is an all around good guy. We are so
glad that Mark is now a part of our team. Please join me in welcoming him
to the VoloMedia family.
-Jen
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Happy 10th year anniversary, Akamai!
August 21, 2008 4:24 PMWe just came back from the beautiful city of Boston where Akamai's first Global Customer Conference took place. As one of the sponsors of the event, we were very pleased on many fronts. The conference was extremely valuable to us as we engaged with the right people and attended some very insightful sessions and inspiring keynotes. It was exciting to discover potential synergies amongst other partners and sponsors, and share visions with industry leaders from Media & Entertainment, Commerce, and Global Enterprises.
This Conference coincided with an Akamai landmark - 10 year anniversary. To take a look back at the events that have shaped the Internet and Akamai's place in this revolution, please click here.
The VoloMedia Team congratulates Akamai on this business milestone, and we leave you with the spectacular view of the Boston harbor taken during the Akamai hosted cruise.
Cheers,
Jeff and Mirjana
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Busy Summer at VoloMedia
August 5, 2008 2:09 PMHi Everyone,
It's August and we know a lot of folks are taking time out, but we are busy, busy, busy! In fact, we will be at two different events taking place on opposite coasts this month. This week, our founder, Murgesh Navar, will be speaking on a panel at Digital Hollywood's Building Blocks conference at the San Jose Marriott. His session is on Wednesday, August 6th, at 9AM and is titled "The Broadband and Social Media Platform The Web: The All-Media, All-Consuming Phenomenon." Later this month, we will be at the Akamai Global Customer Conference in Boston from August 18th to 20th . If you're around, please come and check us out.
Also, a big thanks to NewTeeVee for having us at their Pier Screenings and to those who stopped by to enjoy popcorn, beer, and videos with us! We had a great time and are looking forward to NewTeeVee Live in November.
Jen and Reed
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Take Flight #2
July 24, 2008 2:17 PMJim Cox and Michael Fry, the two cartoonists behind the Over the Hedge
comic strip and subsequent Dreamworks feature, are on a mission: bring
print cartoons into the digital age. It was from this idea that
RingTales was born.
In February of 2007, RingTales was awarded
the exclusive license to the New Yorker magazine's library of
cartoons. The guys transformed the iconic one-frame cartoons into
20-second animated video clips, while managing to maintain their
original vibe.
The New Yorker Animated Cartoons were a hit, making the charts on iTunes and getting featured on newyorker.com.
More recently, RingTales really hit the jackpot with the release of an animated version of Scott Adams' comic strip, Dilbert [iT]. Fans of the office park denizen and his dog, Dogbert, flocked to the web for their daily helping of Dilbert humor and philosophy.
This enthusiasm recently secured RingTales a highly coveted title: the top podcast in iTunes.
And if that's not enough proof of RingTales' iTunes animation dominance, check out the results of a search for "cartoons."
The VoloMedia crew is delighted to have RingTales as part of our network. We're big fans and we look forward to seeing what they come out with next!Reed
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Welcome, Ellen!
July 14, 2008 6:00 AMHi everyone! We'd like to introduce you to the newest member of the VoloMedia team: Ellen Farber. Ellen is our new Director of Ad Sales for the East Coast and she will be based in NYC. She comes to us with an impressive background in advertising sales in digital, print, and cross-media network sales. Most recently, she was the National Director of PlanetOut Inc., which attracts over 5 million unique monthly visitors. While at PlanetOut, Ellen brought in and grew the automotive, consumer packaged goods and retail categories into the second and third highest ad sales verticals for the company. In fact, she has created campaigns for some great brands, including Cadillac, Jeep, Saturn, Tylenol PM, Sears,and Chrysler.
Ellen has also held executive sales positions with Disney Adventure Magazine, Prevention Magazine and USA Weekend Magazine where she was awarded "New York Sales Person of the Year" two times and was nominated for the "Gannett Sales Person of the Year."
We are so excited that she is now part of the team. We know that her go-get-them attitude and customer oriented focus will help us grow our ad network and help our publishers monetize their downloadable digital audio and video assets. Welcome, Ellen!
Jen
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