Monthly Archives: March 2008

Together with Trellon we’ve expanded the impact of Drupal’s highly popular social media software by making it easy to incorporate Evoca’s interactive Phone-to-Web content creation and hosting solution with Drupal. This kicks off a series of Evoca module introductions to speed the adoption of Evoca Media Services by users of both commercial and open source content management software solutions. The gist of the news release follows here:

Trellon, an elite web development consulting firm specializing in Drupal and third party integration web solutions and Evoca, the innovator of Phone-to-Web content creation, hosting, and media management services, announced a partnership to enable Drupal users to rapidly integrate Evoca’s innovative features into web properties developed by Trellon for customers in vertical markets including the media industry, cause marketing, education, and politics.

The Evoca-Drupal module provides seamless functionality for Drupal users who wish to deploy and manage Evoca Media Services, the flexible digital media platform offering an API (application programming interface) and integrated VoIP telephone services. Trellon has developed a solution based around webservices to rapidly deploy the Drupal services module and implement the solution.

Trellon and Evoca demonstrated the functionality of the Evoca-Drupal module at Drupalcon 2008 in Boston (March 3-6), where Trellon was a gold sponsor. This sold-out technology conference hosted over 800 attendees that develop and use Drupal, a highly popular social publishing system that blends web content management and social media capabilities supported by a thriving open source community. Drupal users include AOL, FastCompany, Warner Brothers Records, The New York Post, Amnesty International, SonyBMG, Harvard University, and the Open Architecture Network.

And the usual quotations:

“We are pleased to partner with Evoca to implement their innovative digital media solutions with Drupal as well as other popular web platforms”, remarked Samuel Wilson, Trellon’s Director of Operations. “While Trellon specializes in customizing Drupal, we have crafted the methods necessary to implement Evoca products with most of the web platforms being used online today.” Trellon is inviting both current and new clients to participate in the adoption of Evoca services to bring compelling new media features to their web properties and user engagement programs.

“Evoca welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with Trellon to integrate Evoca Media Services into the wide range of organizations that use Drupal to execute effective online communities and understand the impact of interesting new content on important site metrics – exactly where Evoca excels,” added Murem Sharpe, CEO and president of Evoca. “We look forward to on-going collaboration with Trellon as they facilitate the integration of Evoca’s services with additional web platforms to meet the strong market demand for user-generated content – the linchpin of successful social media sites.”

And here’s more about our talented new partner, Trellon:

Trellon is a web development consulting company specializing in the Internet and new media with a particular emphasis on Drupal and third party integration. Founded in 2004, the company has delivered solutions to a variety of clients in the non-profit, political, NGO and commercial sectors. Client projects have ranged in size from small niche web communities to large scale national deployments integrated with third party solutions. Trellon’s development staff includes core Drupal programmers, module contributors and CiviCRM specialists who are all open source advocates. Additionally, Trellon’s business management team provides strategic consulting services surrounding internet strategy, implementation and deployment.

We’ve just announced Evoca Media Services (EMS) Version 2.0 – bringing our customers rapid implementation of interactive campaigns that engage your customers, audiences, readers, and supporters and convert them from offline to online visitors. Why are we so excited about Version 2.0? It’s now easier than ever for you to take advantage of these two global market trends:

Trend #1 – User-generated content is the leading driver of online advertising, eCommerce, and donation revenue growth

Trend #2 – There are over 3.3 billion mobile phones worldwide – digital audio content devices, available 24×7 to put fresh, compelling content online

Media and entertainment companies and interactive marketers using Evoca Media Services 2.0 now have easy-to-deploy audio content creation and streaming features to increase online traffic and advertising revenue. EMS is Software-as-a-service, so you never have to be concerned about installation or updates. (BTW, it doesn’t involve any heavy lifting by your IT/web team, whether they’re in-house or third party.)

So … what are these new Evoca Media Services features? You now can use the Evoca Media Wizard, our integrated, “self-service” Flash player creation and customization wizard, to generate an unlimited number of branded Flash players for online play-back of digital recordings throughout your web properties. You can easily manage your “library” of players within your current interactive programs and retain them for your future programs. Innovative self-service phone configuration features enable you to upload and manage your custom voice prompts and configure your phone numbers. Did you know that Evoca offers phone numbers for thousands of U.S. cities and over 45 countries, both local and toll-free?

There’s more … Evoca’s Media Manager is a powerful online console for screening, publishing, archiving, uploading MP3s (and converting WAV to MP3), and downloading digital recordings. The Media Manager has new features that, well, you just have to use it to see (and hear) how easy it is to manage your digital audio assets. Also included in the release are expanded site help, developer forums, and open source projects (Java and PHP) that wrap the HTTP API (application programming interface).

We’ll continue to launch new self-service features that make it easier than ever for your users to create fresh, compelling audio content. Companies and organizations of any size – from large enterprises to small businesses and non-profits – can benefit from Evoca’s market-leading features by selecting license packages that fit their requirements. Want to try our developer version? Better yet, want to get started with the commercial version? Either way, it’s easy: fill out our short Online Inquiry Form and we’ll get you underway fast.

We’re also signing up partners – interactive agencies, IT integrators, and web developers, and they’re very enthused about bringing the benefits user-generated content to their clients in many creative ways that we could not have possibly thought up ourselves. Partners, we’re listening! Say the word!