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Just got back home from a tremendous 2 days of NMC meetings (wow, I never thought “tremendous” went with “meetings” but ours are) where I was able to check off one of my 43 people… the legendary Doug Engelbart.
And of course the reflex association goes to “yeah, he’s the guy that invented the mouse…” [...]

As a follow-up to my post on small numbers of people doing tagging, as of today, for our NMC Regional Conference held last week in San Antonio, we have tagged in flickr 393 photos from 11 individuals, more than we had at our summer conference in Cleveland where the attendence was 3 times as [...]

Too much time is slipping following last week’s NMC Regional Conference in San Antonio, and BackBloggiing is slipping dangerously into “Fuggeddaaboudit”… but I would be seriously remiss without mentioning the dynamic back to back sessions by two of my all time favorite presenters- Bryan Alexander, followed by Brian Lamb- the Br[yi]an Double Header.
Bryan is talking [...]

For quite some time, I’ve interacted via blogs et al with Gardner Campbell, but today was the first time I’ve heard him present… and there he is a virtuoso. At the NMC Regional Conference, his session was on “The Allegory Efffect: Metaphoric Immersion in Croquet and Second Life”, where he put a nice connection between [...]

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Town Hall on Future of Scholarshipavailable on flickr

Visual facilitation by Rachel Smith, NMC.
NMC 2006 Regional Conference hosted by Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

The Thursday morning special event at the NMC 2006 Regional Conference was a town hall meeting- “The Future of Scholarship: A Visual Conversation”.
This theme was one of the three tracks of [...]

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Welcome Reception - Flickr Demoavailable on flickr

NMC Regional Conference, San Antonio Texas

At the Wednesday opening reception for the NMC 2006 regional conference, we not only had great food and drink, but 8 different demos related to “What the 2.0 Are We Talking About? New Web Demos”, where colleagues I arm twisted gave informal [...]

Later in the afternoon for the first day of the NMC 2006 Regional Conference, Tom Hapgood and I presented on our preliminary work on the “new” web face of the NMC. And yes, for a rare treat, I did use PowerPoint, though it was all creative commons flickr photos and links. As is, you can [...]

Firstly, I plead guilty.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday as our NMC Online Conference n Impact of Digital Media, where we had great participation (200 registrations, highs of 112 in one live session), yet in some sampling there was hardly a ripple of coverage in the blogopshere, checking today at Technorati and Google blog search, mostly mentions [...]

After 12 straight days of organizing and documenting Second Life activities for the NMC Impact of Digital Media Symposium, I am ready for an upgrade. One things that worked well in this event was

This afternoon I did some minor editing (cutting some files into smaller pieces) from the audio recordings provided by the media team at Case for last week’s NMC Summer Conference, and in addition, posted a 5 minute video that was shown at the Second Life launch session.
The audio quality is mostly good, with some bad [...]