This team focuses on strategies for approaching corporations for financial support -- sponsorships or other kinds of partnerships.
Team members:
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Proposals out to ...
JD has written and sent proposals out to:
- Yahoo
- Microsoft
- Akamai
- VeriSign
- Intel
- AOL (preliminary query)
Corporations to approach
Following is a list of companies that make logical prospective partners for Ourmedia: primarily (but not exclusively) digital media vendors (hardware and software makers) and online media platforms:
Software makers
- Adobe
Contacts: Somebody said Brewster knows Tom Malloy, Adobe's VP of Office of technology (not sure of title)
- Microsoft
Contacts: JD met Brent Ingraham (Brenti@microsoft.com) at Gnomedex and Web 2.0. Tie into Bill Gates' Digital Memory initiative and discuss how media is mixing into the operating system and OM videos on Xbox.
- DivX
Contacts: Jim Vinson (858.882.0812) spoke with JD on June 9, 2005. He likes our work. JD also knows the CEO.
- Real
Contact: CEO Rob Glaser
- Sonic Solutions (in Novato)
Sonic bought Roxio in August 2004. Contact: Bob Doris, president and CEO of Sonic. Others?
- Ulead makes MediaStudio Pro 7, a complete Digital Video Suite
- Orb Networks
Contact: CEO Jim Behrens (JD knows him)
Contact: Bill Dettering < dettering@applian.com >. JD and Dave Toole spoke with him. They make streaming media recording tools, including Replay Radio, Replay Music and Replay Video. Bill suggested $500 for a sponsorship.
- Bitcasters Inc.
Contact: Nathon Gunn, President/CEO. JD has been in contact with him.
Networking companies
- Akamai
Contact: JD met Jeff Young, director of Corporate Communications at Web 2.0. 617-444-3913. jyoung@akamai.com
- Cisco
Contact:
- Nortel
Contact: JD met Mano (or Mario?) Martins at Web 2.0. 905 863 6589. martinsm@nortel.com who said to contact William Hall at 408-329-0383
Media platforms
- Yahoo
Contact: Brad Horowitz (JD, Dave T. met him)
Status: We're drafting a proposed Yahoo-Ourmedia partnership
- AOL
Contact: Karen Howe, VP & GM, Singingfish(JD met her). JD also met John McKinley at AOL. Also: Jim Bankoff, executive vice president of programming & products for AOL, during his session.
Contact: Google Foundation doesn't support these efforts. Jennifer Feikin, Director of Google Video,
- Turner Broadcasting
Contact: Jay Higginbotham. JD, Larry Lessig and Mia Garlick spoke with him by phone, July 13, 2005. Also, Bill Chapman, vice president of creative development and emerging technologies at Turner Studios.
- NBC Universal
Contact: Jason Clark, Director of Broadband Product Development for NBC Universal (212.664.4711 in NY). (Ryanne Hodson, Michael Verdi know him)
- CBS
Contact: Larry Kramer, president of CBS Digital Media
- TiVo
Contact: Naveen Chopra, director of business development
- Cosmo/TiVo
Contact: Alex Rowland (JD knows him)
- Motorola iRadio
Contact: Dave Ulmer (JD knows him)
- Audible
Contact:
- Sling Media
Contact: Blake Krekorian
- Akimbo
Contact: Josh Goldman (JD knows him)
- International Television Networks Inc. of Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Contact: David Koenig, the company's founder and chief technology officer. (Content partner?)
- CNET
Contact: Erik Kokkonen < Erik.Kokkonen@cnet.com >
- iVillage
Contact: Susan mentioned Robert Levitan (sp?). Also, Mark Graham.
Mobile phone manufacturers
- MobiTV (Berkeley): Sprint & Cingular
MobiTV, a service that broadcasts networks like Fox Sports, MSNBC and TLC to the cellphones of about 500,000 subscribers.
Contact:
- GoTV (Sherman Oaks): Sprint
Contact:
- Verizon
Contact:
TV networks:
- CurrentTV
Contact: Anastasia Goodstein. Dave Toole and JD met with them in late September. We owe them a partnership proposal.
- LinkTV
Contact: Roger Macdonald, director, research & information systems, based in SF. JD met him at television conference in Berkeley, Sept. 30, 2005.
- KQED, SF public radio and TV
Contact: Tim Olson, director, Interactive. JD met him at television conference in Berkeley, Sept. 30, 2005, and he liked the idea of doing a joint project involving KQED footage.
Open source infrastructure
- Rojo
Contact: Christopher Alden
Device/hardware makers
- Sony
We were contacted from Sony by Chris Antonius, executive director of
digital entertainment, and he was interested in technical information (june 2005). Also: JD met Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Digital Sales and Marketing at Sony Pictures.
- Apple Corp.
Contacts:
- Sun Microsystems
Contact: Jonathan Schwartz, president. (JD knows him.) Sun Microsystems is releasing its DRM (DReaM) Project under an open-source licence as the foundation for the 'Open Media Commons,' in hopes of driving a unified standard in the technology used to project digital media such as music and movies.
- HP
Contact: Shane Robison, HP's chief strategy officer. Also, at Syndicate: HP blog case study: Beyond the hype - it's all about the customer connection
12/13/2005
Scott Anderson
Director, Enterprise Brand Communications, Hewlett-Packard Company.
Corporations around the globe are becoming increasingly aware of the power of the "blogosphere" and pondering whether blogging is just the latest trend, or whether there is a legitimate and compelling place for the blog in the corporate communications mix. In 2004, Hewlett Packard, an $85Bn technology solutions provider, officially entered the blogosphere by launching a blog platform on HP's website at www.hp.com/go/blogs. From the onset, HP approached blogging from a pragmatic perspective - as a compelling vehicle for genuine, open dialog between HP's business and technology experts and the company's customers.
Scott Anderson, HP's Director of Enterprise Brand Communications, pioneered HP's enterprise blog program. Guiding the program through its infancy over the past year, Scott encountered both the challenges and the rewards of building an authentic blog platform within a corporate environment. In his presentation, Scott will look beyond the hype and share his real-life experiences about what it really takes to introduce the blogosphere into the enterprise in a way that helps the company create intimate connections with customers while still playing an important and effective role in the company's marketing strategy.
- Intel
Contacts:
- IBM
JD has been in contact with Vincent Lauria, who is leaving IBM but he put us in contact with a # of IBM depts. on 12-1-05, including their open source effort.
Other contacts: Deborah Magid, Director of Strategic Alliances, IBM's Venture Capital Group; Steve Mills, senior VP and group exec of IBM's Software Group, who has a track record clearly sympathetic to these ideas
- AMD
Contact:
- Motorola | Nokia
Contact them for placement of Ourmedia videos or ringtones on their mobile phones.
- Panasonic, other PVR and DVD manufacturers
Contact them for showcasing their products on Ourmedia.
- Canon | Minolta | Nikon
Contact them for showcasing their digital products (cameras, camcorders, software)
Internet TV
- SBC/AT&T
Contact: ??. SBC (now AT&T) is devoting $4 billion to its IPTV rollout beginning in 2006.
- Akimbo
Contact: Josh Goldman, CEO. JD in contact. They might give us $500 or more.
- Cosmo TV/TiVo
Contact: Alex Rowland
- Brightcove
Contact: Jeremy Allaire, CEO
- Dave TV
Contact:
- TVersity
Contact them about getting Ourmedia video and audio included in their default media directory. They make a UPnP media server that quite rocks.
Retailers
- eBay
Contact:
- Amazon
Contact:
- Radio Shack
- Online retailers like ToysRUs at Christmastime.
Ecommerce platforms
- VeriSign
Contacts: Steven Manning, Marshall. JD, Dave Toole and Mia Garlick met with them to discuss micropayments and licensing of content by Ourmedia's members.
Other sources of income
- The Wikipedia Foundation has this page about how to contribute to Wikipedia.
- Dropcash is an online fundraising tool.
- We'll also be setting up an Ourmedia store at some point, similar to what DemocracyNow does. Offer people ability to earmark their funds by funding certain projects.
- Ourmedia can organize an open media conference.
VCs
- Sanjay Subhedar, general partner, Storm Ventures, Palo Alto, who calls digital media a megatrend.
Other sites with corporate sponsors
List other websites (related to nonprofits or grassroots media sites) with corporate sponsorships:
- Wikimedia has support from Kennisnet, Yahoo, and The Lounsberry Foundation. Answers.com, Socialtext, Sun, the Open Society Institute, and DotCheck sponsored our conference. These are listed on our benefactors page. Angela Beesley
Also: the 1st Haydenfilm awards contest was sponsored by: WriteBrothers, gettyimages and Akimbo.