NMC and Member News

Photography and photo sharing has long been an activity NMC people have actively engaged in-- attendees at the 2009 Summer Conference shared nearly 2500 photos tagged nmc 2009 in Flickr.  We use Flickr very extensively to power many of the NMC web sites, but we had overlooked something that seems like an obvious thing to do.

It was via twitter that Alan Wolf of the University of Wisconsin, Madison suggested

...getting around to putting my photos into groups, and looked for an appropriate NMC Flickr group. Would NMC make a general one?

Save-the-Dates now for the 2010 NMC Summer Conference to be held June 8 - 12 in Anaheim, California.  The host of the 2010 conference will be the University of Southern California.

Watch the USC invitation preview of what is to come!

Travel and lodging information is available now with more to come!

Interested in exhibiting or sponsorship?

The Call for Proposals will open in December 2009.

Conference registration will open in April 2010.

Check back often for more details!

The NMC is pleased to announce the release of the German translation of the 2009 Horizon Report. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the NMC's international colleagues, the report is now available in four languages other than English; this version joins the previously released Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese editions. The translation was generously provided by Multimedia Kontor Hamburg (MMKH).

The New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of colleges, universities, and museums, today announced the recipients of the 2009 NMC Center of Excellence Award. The award, the highest honor bestowed by the NMC, recognizes demonstrated excellence and outstanding achievement in the application of technology to learning or creative expression.

Today we are opening another Two Minute Survey.  On most higher education campuses, the budgeting for the 2009-10 academic year is complete with many having faced hard decisions due to the global financial crisis.

This survey is aimed at highlighting both the impacts of the economy on campus budgets, and the strategies being employed to manage those impacts. You can take the online survey now at http://go.nmc.org/2min-jun09.

Image Credit: Flickr cc license photo by nafra cendrers

Since I work for NMC, my bias may be showing when I suggest that the NMC Summer Conference is one of the best conferences anywhere-- but I have been saying so since my first one back in 2002, years before I joined the NMC. But don't take my word, listen to how people describe their experience last year at Princeton.

In that spirit, I offer the following ten reasons (actually not in strict top 10 order) why you should do what you can to attend this year's conference in Monterey. After getting through all ten, make your way over to our online registration to sign up today.

We are still taking registrations for the 2009 NMC Summer Conference that will be held in Monterey, California on June 9 - 13!

We have a great program lined up that we think you will enjoy!

Two-Day Immersive Workshops and Preconference Workshop tickets are still available!

Good news --- the Portola Hotel & Spa has extended the hotel reservation cut-off deadline until Monday, May 18 so you can still get a room at the conference rate of $185!

All NMC web sites will be offline for approximately an hour starting Monday at 10:00 PM Pacific Time for hardware updates.

UPDATE 10:30 pm PDT:  All maintenance is now completed.  Thank you for your patience.