nmc conversations

NMC Conversations #8
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The 2008 NMC Summer Conference, hosted at Princeton University, is coming up soon, so we thought it was a good time to have an NMC conversation with conference host, David Hopkins, Manager of the New Media Center at Princeton.

In our conversation, David has shared what this experience means for Princeton and an overview of what the “Conference Task Force” has been up to. If you missed it, check out the “24′ themed video they showed at Indianapolis last year:
Conference Task Force video (16.7 Mb Quicktime

David also gave us some idea what people can expect when they arrive on campus and decribed the facilities we’d be using. He also gave the photographers a heads up about the black squirrels, they are real!

Also joining the conversation was Nancy Reeves, Director of Member Services for NMC and Chief Meeting Planner- she let us know that registrations were on pace to set a record (this week we passed 500). Nancy told us about some of the special activities including the opening reception Wednesday night, where besides the usual good food, there will be a record number of exhibitors, both from local New Jersey companies, but also a number of projects from NMC member organizations.

Thursday night is another fun evening activity, the “Interactives” event hosted by Princeton. David promised some fun gams, and advised us to brush up on our Princeton trivia.

And of course, the days are filled with our usual array of interesting sessions, stimulating keynotes, poster sessions, Center of Excellence Awards, and the fast paced Five Minutes of Fame. Larry described a special feature just added - a pre-conference workshop on digital SLR photography with Sports Illustrated photographer Bill Frakes and Don Henderson, our NMC Board member from Apple. Inc. Bill is also doing a lunch time keynote on Thursday.

And Larry also shared the news that the John Lennon Bus will be present for the entire conference- this is an amazing music and video studio on wheels. We are announcing two special opportunities for conference attendees to get some “time on the bus”- one is a drawing for 6 people to spend a day on the Lennon Bus recording music and the other is Rock Hall 2.0 - a chance for anyone to sign up for a 15 minute session to record any kind of audio loop, that will ultimately be shared as a free resource.

And there are a lot of things happening at the conference celebrating the 15th year of the NMC - check out the NMC@15 photo collection (and add your own photos of “fifteen-ness” soon as we are making a commemorative video).

This will be another NMC conference experience to remember, to connect, and to learn– so if you are still thinking about this, run over now and register! See you in Princeton June 11!