SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2009) -

• CallWave, Inc. and SlideShare.net today revealed the winners of the Fuze Meeting "Tell a Story" contest. The contest challenged users to submit presentations to SlideShare.net that told a great story -- in 30 slides or less -- that were then voted on by the community and evaluated by a panel of judges.
  
• Categories included Grand Prize winner, Best Design, Best Story Telling Ability, Most Popular and Best Use of Multimedia.
  
• SlideShare user slides2407 has been awarded the $5000 Grand Prize for the presentation "Drunkenomics - The Story of Bar Stool Economics," a short, humorous story about taxes and tax cuts.
  
• Other category winners will receive an iPhone and a $100 iTunes gift card:
  • Best Design - Alex M. Varanese, "Super Cool Dudes"
    
  • Best Story Telling - Lubomir Panayotov, "The Story Of H"
    
  • Most Popular - Denise Caron, "Lets Talk Poverty"
    
  • Best Use of Multimedia - Alan Brody, "White Shaka Boy"
    
• The judges for this contest were made up of an impressive panel that included business leaders, journalists and social media luminaries.
  • Don Tapscott - author or co-author of 13 widely read books, including Wikinomics, the best selling management book in the United States in 2007
    
  • Pete Cashmore - CEO of Mashable and a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007
    
  • Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos, an online show retailer with merchandise sales over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer service.
    
  • Ann Handley - chief content officer of MarketingProfs and the MarketingProfs Daily Fix.
    
  • Om Malik - journalist with over 15 years experience covering technology and business; founder and senior writer of gigaom.com
    

QUOTES

• "It was great to see the variety of stories that were submitted. The contestants really showcased their creativity and passion." - TONY HSIEH, ZAPPOS
  
• "I was extremely impressed by the quality of the submissions for the contest. From a presentation on social injustice to insights into using Twitter for business, every submission was unique, highly creative and made imaginative use of the medium. I was especially impressed by 'Super Cool Dudes,' a wonderfully-drawn cartoon that pays homage to geeks." - PETE CASHMORE, MASHABLE
  
• "We launched this contest to show that presentations don't have to -- and shouldn't -- be boring. The submissions we received prove just that. We saw people and organizations thinking intelligently and creatively about how to leverage PowerPoint in new ways to tell their stories." - PATRICK MORAN, VP OF MARKETING, CALLWAVE

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH FUZE MEETING

• Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/fuzemeeting
  
• Blog - http://blog.fuzemeeting.com
  
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/FuzeMeeting
  
• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/FUZE-Online-Meetings-Mobile-Collaboration/47902732716

ABOUT CALLWAVE
CallWave is a global provider of unified communication applications which allow today's professional to communicate, collaborate and conference from anywhere in the world via computer over any web connection or with any leading 3G smartphone or Wi-Fi enabled device. CallWave's Fuze Meeting is a mobile and web-based collaboration service that enables secure, real-time collaboration, with integrated audio conferencing. Fuze Meeting offers unique features including high-definition, synchronized video and image sharing. CallWave's Fuze Messenger solutions securely extend instant messaging (IM) and OCS applications to mobile devices, including the iPhone. Founded in 1998, CallWave is located in San Francisco, California. Please visit: www.callwave.com.

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