Conference

April 1, 2008 - April 3, 2008
Second Life and Adobe Connect hosted by The New Media Consortium

The NMC Symposium on Mashups, the eleventh in the NMC’s series of online conferences, will itself be a mashup of venues, with sessions taking place in both the Adobe Connect 2D web environment and in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. All events in Second Life will also be streamed into Adobe Connect; participants will also be able to access Adobe Connect from within Second Life.

Special thanks to Adobe Systems, Inc. and LearningTimes, both NMC Corporate Partners, for their contributions and support for this Symposium!

Registration

Online registration is available March 7, 2008 - March 25, 2008, closing at 11:59 PM Pacific Time of the end date. Late registration fees apply thereafter.

March 12, 2008 - March 13, 2008
Austin, Texas hosted by The New Media Consortium

The 2008 NMC Directors' Meeting was held in Austin, Texas on March 12 - 13, 2008. The meeting included an NMC Business Meeting and focused discussions on the 2008 Horizon Report and Global Outreach for NMC.

Download the visual record of the 2008 Directors' Meeting (5.3MB, PDF).

Business Meeting
In this segment of the meeting, NMC members discussed the recent Directors' annual survey; reviewed NMC Services, including Virtual Worlds and Pachyderm; discussed NMC Initiatives; discussed the future of NMC meetings; and received a preview of the coming year.

Registration

Online registration is available February 1, 2008 - March 1, 2008, closing at 11:59 PM Pacific Time of the end date. Late registration fees apply thereafter.

December 3, 2007 - December 5, 2007
NMC's Virtual Conference Center (Second Life) hosted by NMC

The NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication explored the premise that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate—and even the ways we talk and think about communication—are changing as a result. A white paper on the topic has been released to help inform the topic and to generate discussion

Registration

Online registration is available November 8, 2007 - November 27, 2007, closing at 11:59 PM Pacific Time of the end date. Late registration fees apply thereafter.

November 7, 2007 - November 9, 2007
New Orleans, LA, USA hosted by Tulane University

This year the New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane is scheduled for November 7 - 9. As the title suggests, the conference will be held in New Orleans at Tulane University; our hosts are our friends at Technology Services. Tulane is one of the country's leading educational and research institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane offers degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, the sciences and engineering, and social work.

Registration

Online registration is available October 8, 2007 - November 3, 2007, closing at 11:59 PM Pacific Time of the end date. Late registration fees apply thereafter.