Partners

Technology

TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, developed Podscope the first engine to search within a podcast, making spoken word searchable within an audio recording. TVEyes, which has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999, introduced Podscope in April 2005. With this partnership, Evoca taps into Podscope's range of proprietary technologies to index audio feeds to enable Evoca Members to search audio by keyword - just as a search engine is used for text searches.. Evoca™ enables the search on terms resulting from the Podscope audio indexing process, instantly generating a list of results ranked by relevance, and presenting a "player" for the Evoca Member to simply click to listen to an audio clip containing the relevant term. The Evoca Member can decide whether to click to play or click to download. In addition, Evoca offers meta-tag or text search to be generated by the same keyword request. Podscope creates an index against every word, making the contents searchable.

The Rackspace network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of our customers' mission-critical Web applications. Its Cisco-powered, Zero-Downtime Network™ has unique self-healing attributes that allow us to deliver reliable web hosting on our 100% infrastructure availability guarantee. The secure server network incorporates a patented Intrusion Detection System to protect against external threats. Firewalls are managed by security specialists and deployed in a 'private IP' space, while customer servers and routers are segregated in Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN). Server hosting network security features also include multi-level privileges, OS lockdowns, centralized authentication and device change logs. All Operating Systems are loaded, hardened and managed to ensure proper security. By maintaining on-site inventories, Web laboratories and automated deployment systems - in addition to close relationships with key hardware vendors - Rackspace guarantees hardware availability. Through Rackspace we are able to provide complete data backup, storage and retrieval services for data by utilizing a powerful suite of technologies paired with data backup best practices. All backups are performed using a high-performance private network with scheduled backup procedures. Enterprise software is used to manage centralized data storage activities. Rackspace monitors the status and efficiency of all HVAC, power generation, security, management and support systems. They also track the health of servers, firewalls, load-balancers and other platform components.

Professional

The National Story Telling Network offers direct services, publications and educational opportunities to several thousand individuals, local storytelling guilds and associations. These services are designed to improve the quality of storytelling at all levels - in entertainment venues, in classrooms and libraries, and wherever storytelling can make a contribution to quality of life. To facilitate that process, NSN sponsors the National Storytelling Conference in cooperation with local or regional members at a different location each year. The Conference provides educational workshops, demonstration programs and the National Storytelling Awards ceremony that recognizes storytelling excellence, leadership and service across the country. Other services offered by NSN include StoryNet, the NSN website, Storytelling Magazine dealing with "nuts-and-bolts" issues associated with the art form, and a National Storytelling Directory. One of NSN's most widely known programs is Tellabration!, a night of storytelling around the world that was developed by a community guild more than ten years ago.

The Oral History Association (of the United States), established in 1966, seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting human memories. With an international membership, the OHA serves a broad and diverse audience. Local historians, librarians and archivists, students, journalists, teachers, and academic scholars from many fields have found that the OHA provides both professional guidance and collegial environment for sharing information. In addition to fostering communication among its members, the OHA encourages standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, dissemination and uses of oral testimony. To guide and advise those concerned with oral documentation, the OHA has established a set of goals, guidelines, and evaluation standards for oral history interviews. Oral history is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life. It is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word.

The International Oral History Association (IOHA) was formally constituted in June 1996 at the 9th International Oral History Conference in Goteborg, Sweden. The Association provides a forum for oral historians around the world, in order to foster international communication and cooperation and a better understanding of the nature and value of oral history. The Association meets every two years in a different region or continent. The Association is governed by a Council elected at the General Meeting of the biennial international oral history conference. The President of the Association is Rina Benmayor, from the United States, and current Council members come from Australia, Barbados, Brazil, England, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the United States.

Regional

CBETA is a membership based organization for businesses, educators, governmental entities and technology groups that share the vision of Savannah and the coastal region as a relevant technology center offering a high wage, growth economy to its citizens. Founded in 1995 by business leaders and visionaries certain that - anchored by Savannah's business, education and technology infrastructure - the richly historic and scenic region can enjoy the benefits of a thriving technology economy. CBETA nurtures an investment climate that is conducive to entrepreneurial and public-private ventures. The organization connects the 44,000 college students in the local area and local businesses and provides networking opportunities for vendors, clients and leaders in the community.

The Creative Coast Initiative (TCCi) is a not-for-profit, private/public partnership in the Savannah, Georgia region that leverages Savannah's unique blend of bright talent, leading-edge technologies and exceptionally high-quality of life to assist the growth and success of creative and technical businesses in the Savannah Coastal Region. Savannah is a beautiful, yet brainy coastal region that combines the most desirable features of small towns and large cities. It boasts the nation's largest historic district, a large creative and techno-savvy workforce, a multi-cultural population, a sub-tropical climate, as well as enchanting art, history and cultural venues.The area boasts 300,000 coastal community residents , 44,000 bright college students attending 12 area colleges and university, 33,000 miles of fiber optic cable, 350+ brain-based businesses, 100 sq mi of 54Mbps wireless broadband, 80 miles of pristine coastline, 60 colorful art galleries, 53 daily non-stop flights to major markets, and 45 public parks and squares.

Evoca is a Member Company of the Advanced Technology Development Center, a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. ATDC provides strategic business advice and connects its member companies to the people and resources they need to succeed. More than 100 companies have emerged from ATDC, including publicly-traded firms such as MindSpring Enterprises - now part of EarthLink. Headquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ATDC has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation's top non-profit incubators. ATDC was formed in 1980 to stimulate growth in Georgia's technology business base and now has locations in Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah and Warner Robins.

Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1839, the Georgia Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the historical society for the people of Georgia. Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia's first city, the Society is the oldest cultural institution in the state and one of the oldest historical organizations in the nation. The GHS motto is "Ensuring the Future for Georgia's Past". For 166 years, GHS has fulfilled its mission and vision to collect, preserve, and share Georgia history through a variety of exciting educational outreach programs and research services. The Georgia Historical Society's library and archives, a major research center for Georgia history, houses one of the most outstanding collections of manuscripts, books, maps, photographs, architectural drawings, portraits, and artifacts related to the history of Georgia. Each year thousands of researchers from around the world travel to Hodgson Hall in search of Georgia history.