Webcasting for the National MS Society: When Profession and Passion Intersect
Sonic Foundry sponsors the Sonic Streamers each year for the MS 150 Best Dam Bike Ride
Sonic Foundry has a long history of supporting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Our CFO, Ken Minor, leads Wisconsin’s largest and most successful fundraising team, the Sonic Streamers, in the MS 150 Best Dam Bike Ride each year. Over the last twelve years, they’ve raised over $750,000 and we’ve also donated live webcasting services like the 2005 MS Society Wisconsin Chapter luncheon featuring Terri Garr.
So given our history with this cause, we were excited when Sonic Foundry Event Services supported a live webcast via Mediasite last month, “CCSVI and what it could mean to people living with MS,” by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Academy of Neurology along with our partner PSAV. The topic: the potential of early research on restricted blood flow in MS (known as CCSVI).
From their website, “The National MS Society shares the public’s sense of urgency to expeditiously advance any lead that has the potential of stopping, repairing or preventing MS. Accordingly, the Society is pursuing this new and potentially promising research direction by committing to fund expanded research on CCSVI in MS.”
Live webcast by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and American Academy of Neurology on breaking research
We’ve long held there’s no quicker way to get a lot of people on the same page faster than a live webcast – particularly when it comes to sharing new research. On April 14, nearly 4,200 participants around the globe watched the online presentation by world experts who weighed in on what is known and what is yet to be learned about CCSVI. And live viewers submitted hundreds of questions, some for which the presenters simply don’t yet have answers regarding new CCSVI research and related treatment.
Congrats to the MS Society and American Academy of Neurology for the success of their live online forum. In a small way, it is a testament to both organizations’ commitment to aggressively using technology to achieve a world free of MS.
