The authors
Erica St. Angel (LinkedIn | Twitter @mediasite and @tweetesa | Facebook)
Erica St. Angel is the Vice President of Marketing for Sonic Foundry. She’s obsessed with how people use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate learning and improve individual and organizational performance. Count on her for countless posts about opportunities to use webcasting, webcast best practices and other nifty ideas she hopes you’ll steal.
Erica oversees the company’s branding and community-building efforts to build mindshare and drive company growth. She’s a self-confessed metrics junkie and recovering (maybe not) workaholic. Today, she’s just glad to have found gainful employment with a BA in English and an MA in Folk Studies. Before becoming a B2B tech marketing wonk, she was a social marketer specializing in public awareness campaigns and a policy advisor to two governors.
John Pollard (LinkedIn | Twitter @fnkyunclmstrd)
John Pollard is the Technical Product Manager for Mediasite. You can count on him for periodic insights into Sonic Foundry philosophies as well as seamingly random metaphors to help you understand why we do what we do the way we do it. John serves as the liaison between the Mediasite user community and the Sonic Foundry product development team. In other words, he’s responsible for obtaining customer feedback, understanding requirements and helping prioritize future development efforts.
What’s technical about John? Well, he’s got some technical mastery of the paradiddle (and other ‘diddles) that he picked up in his undergrad work as a percussion performance major. And then there’s the MA in technical communication, which also has the word “technical” in it. We’re also pretty sure (but not positive) that he had to be technical for many of his communication, consulting, and product management roles he’s held for companies like American Airlines, SAP and JPMorgan Chase - and schools like the University of Wisconsin, Madison - prior to joining Sonic Foundry. Don’t expect much tech talk, though - we’re all about hiding complexity here at Sonic Foundry.
