Pulvermedia's Bill Kelly Announces Joint Venture With Thomas Howe Company to Expand Next-Generation Communications at Fall VON

BOSTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- FALL VON -- Pulvermedia's Vice President of Business Development Bill Kelly today announced a joint venture with Thomas Howe, of Thomas Howe Company, to lead the Innovator's track at Fall VON and to help further integrate the Mashup community into the VON community.

The Fall VON Innovator's track will include a traditional, VON-style executive summit featuring a number of companies that challenge the status quo. Howe will also lead the "un-conference," featuring an innovative approach, where the agenda is set once the meeting begins. This dynamic format enables participants to identify what they want to talk about, and organize themselves into groups and sessions to exchange and gather the information they seek. This productive, exciting and unfiltered format has been proven to bring out the most from the audience at VON.

During the un-conference, Howe and his colleagues will create a voice mashup, in real time, in front of the audience. A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool (such as cartographic data from Google Maps with real estate data from any number of sources), thereby creating a new and distinct web service that did not originally exist by either source. Howe's expertise rests in bringing voice to the mashup equation. At VON, Howe will help attendees see first-hand how mashups are created, and he will also help participants gain a better understand of the power of this new approach to voice enabled applications.

The application created will benefit Innovations for Poverty Action (http://www.poverty-action.org) a charity funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, dedicated to researching, developing, and testing solutions to real world problems faced by poor developing countries. Howe's voice mashup will provide a light-weight mobile credit scoring application to international microfinance institutions. This voice mashup will provide the latest illustration of the power of IP communications. Additional details on this mashup will be made available at Fall VON.

Pulvermedia also announced today that Howe has become a regular monthly contributor to VON Magazine. "We're excited to bring Thomas to Fall VON in such a significant way, and we're looking forward to sharing his expertise with the entire VON community," said Pulvermedia's Vice President of Business Development Bill Kelly.

"VON has long been the centerpiece of the IP communications industry, and now, more-than-ever, it has become the place for next generation communications," said Thomas Howe. "I'm thrilled to give back to the organization that has given me -- and my customers -- so many opportunities over the years."

About the Thomas Howe Company:

The mission of the Thomas Howe Company is to become the world's leader in developing real time communications mashups for the enterprise. Combining real time communications elements such as VoIP, SMS and presence with the business process, makes businesses run faster and more efficiently, and make their customers happier and more satisfied. Our team combines best of breed components, Web based services and open source technology to create compelling and valuable applications for companies of all sizes.

About Pulvermedia:

Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com.

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