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See3 Communications Teams With Kaltura to Bring Open Source Video Platform to Nonprofits
Leading Provider of Online Fundraising, Education and Advocacy for Nonprofits Partners With the First Open-Source Video Platform
| Source: Kaltura
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 28, 2009) - Continuing its growth as a national
provider of interactive services to the nonprofit and cause community, See3
Communications announced today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference a
strategic partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform.
The partnership makes See3 a primary channel to bring Kaltura to nonprofits
and extends Kaltura's growing influence as a preferred video solution. In
addition, the Kaltura solution is now powering video on DoGooderTV, the
video services and promotion site powered by See3, and home to the annual
Nonprofit Video Awards.
"We are excited that we can finally, wholeheartedly, recommend a video
platform to our clients," said See3 CEO Michael Hoffman. "Many nonprofits
need to move beyond free video sharing sites and introduce a professional
solution to manage their video content. Kaltura is a terrific product and
their quality and feature-set simply cannot be matched. That they are open
source is a huge added benefit to our clients and the greater nonprofit
community."
As an open source platform, Kaltura is unique among online video solutions.
It enables developers around the world to create add-on software to extend
the functionality and improve the performance of the platform. Kaltura
integrates seamlessly with open-source platforms, such as Drupal, WordPress
and MediaWiki, which have become popular in the corporate and nonprofit
community, because they produce better results at lower cost.
In addition to being open source, Kaltura has advanced online editing
features, allows for uploads directly from YouTube and other video sharing
sites, and can be used to push content on to other video sharing sites
through integration with Gigya, TubeMogul and others. With blog and forum
integration, Kaltura can add video comments to any website, allowing site
visitors to make comments directly from their webcam.
"Kaltura has always had a commitment to the nonprofit community," said Ron
Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. "Our partnership with See3 expands this
commitment and allows us to work with a well-known pioneer in online video
for nonprofits. See3 also brings to our partnership a web development team
well-versed in open source software and the ability to integrate the
Kaltura solution into many types of websites."
About See 3 Communications
See3 is a communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits,
foundations, associations, and social causes. See3 specializes in online
strategy for fundraising and advocacy. They use their skills in video
production and web development combined with their experience in strategic
communications.
See3 creates compelling media and online initiatives for causes, from
national organizations to community-based programs. They approach each
engagement with a fresh eye, take the time to consider the client's
audience and goals -- fundraising, recruitment, education, awareness -- and
execute tailored video, web, and outreach campaigns to achieve maximum
impact.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 25,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open
source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as
downloadable packages for leading platforms -- such as Drupal, WordPress
and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including
maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and
hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third
party services.
Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards,
such as the TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open Web'
award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media company awards,
and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009. For more information,
visit www.kaltura.com.