The 2005 NMC Directors' Meeting was held March 3 - 4, 2005, in Austin, Texas. The event took place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the shores of beautiful Town Lake. Like other Directors' Meetings, the gathering was intended specifically for NMC Directors, campus technology champions, and other campus leaders.

This year's theme was “Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches.”

This year, we planned something new for the gathering that we hope will start a new tradition at these meetings. Our discussions and dialogs were captured and will be used to produce an NMC white paper, with the same title as our theme — “Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches.”

Participants at the Director’s meeting will determine the focus and content of this piece, and will be credited by name in the publication. Stories and vignettes from those present at the meeting were captured and willl be included in the monograph. Rachel Smith, author of last year’s Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects, will lead the writing effort, and we’ll plan to release the paper in the fall, after continued discussions at this year's Summer Conference in June.

The business meeting focused on the recent retreat held by the NMC’s Board of Directors that focused on the NMC’s next five years. The meeting kicked off Thursday, March 3 with a reception and dinner beginning at 6 pm., and continued through Friday, March 4, with an all-day program of presentations and discussions directly related to the theme of “Maximizing Campus Impact,” wrapping up at 5 pm.