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With so many features on the new NMC web site, this summer we are experimenting with some new screencasts designed to help our members learn to use the site.

In this first example, we show the steps that individuals from member organizations can do to create their own account on the site (in good web 2.0 spirit, it is self service!)

Get Flash to see this player.

If you click the little icon on the bottom just left of the volume control, you can view this screencast in full screen mode.

Dumpr.net is a free webp-based tool that allows you to select images from your flickr account, apply a number of special effects, and then have them saved, or uploaded back to your flickr account as a new image.

A compant named Converse recently demo-ed software for java based phones that allow these devices to connect with and communicate in Second Life:

As demonstrated at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona:

Attendees using Comverse's phones could see and manipulate avatars who appeared in Comverse's virtual 3GSM booth inside Second Life. Using simple commands, they could direct the avatar to walk around the booth, identify other avatars, and send them greetings via SMS, MMS, or instant messaging. And in a twist typical of today's virtual environments, people logged in to Second Life over traditional PC connections could walk into the virtual Comverse booth and pick up virtual phones that connected them directly to fellow members logged in from their real phones at the real booth.

See:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18195/

At the 2006 NMC Fall Regional Conference in San Antonio, Alan Levine (NMC) and Tom Hapgood (University of Arkansas) provided an overview of the types of features and functionality under consideration for the new web site for NMC. The theme was on very dynamic content, tagging, user generated content. Disciussion with the audience was meant to solicit ideas that would fow into the development process.

The slides from the presentation are available via Slideshare.net , a great way to distribute PowerPoint authored presentations in web friendly Flash format.

 Other information from the presentation, include all referenced web sites, is available at:http://www.nmc.org/nmcpedia/Content_Is_You_Links