ResearchChannel Press Release

ResearchChannel offers new ways to watch, share cutting-edge research
Subscribe to audio and video podcasts, use new tools to share your favorite videos

SEATTLE – ResearchChannel is making its free online educational videos easier to access anytime, anywhere – and to share with friends and colleagues.

ResearchChannel offers audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-4) podcast subscriptions, and allows you to subscribe by series or subject at http://www.researchchannel.org/podcasts. Program pages also now offer podcasting information. Please note that most programs added to our Web site prior to December 2006 are not currently available via podcast.

“ResearchChannel is committed to deliver our content in a wide variety of relevant formats to reach as broad an audience as possible around the globe,” said Amy Philipson, ResearchChannel executive director.

Additionally, ResearchChannel now offers new tools to share your favorite videos through popular social bookmarking and news sharing services: Del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Facebook. Simply click on a program page and look for your favorite sharing tool’s icon.

More ResearchChannel videos are also constantly being added to our new YouTube and iTunes U sites, both are bringing ResearchChannel to a wider audience than ever before.

About ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel links a growing global audience to the revolutionary developments, insights and discoveries of leading research and academic institutions through online, on-air and on-demand video distribution formats. Founded as a way to share the breakthrough work of distinguished researchers with the public, the ResearchChannel consortium includes more than 30 world-renowned universities and research institutions. Video programming ranging from technology and science innovations to fascinating arts and humanities topics is shared in its original form and without interruption. ResearchChannel programs are available though satellite and many local cable TV providers, and online as both live and video-on-demand streaming at www.researchchannel.org.

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PRESS CONTACT
Erin Lodi
Communications and Public Relations
ResearchChannel
206-543-8907
erinlodi@researchchannel.org