NMC Conversations #8: Preview of the 2008 Summer Conference at Princeton University

The 2008 NMC Summer Conference, hosted at Princeton University, is coming up soon, so we thought it was a good time to have an NMC conversation with conference host, David Hopkins, Manager of the New Media Center at Princeton. In our conversation, David has shared what this experience means for Princeton and an overview of what the “Conference Task Force” has been up to. Nancy Reeves, Director of Member Services for NMC also joined our conversation. She let us know that registrations were on pace to set a record (this week we passed 500) and shared some details of the special events taking place at this year's conference. Larry Johnson described a special feature just added - a pre-conference workshop on digital SLR photography with Sports Illustrated photographer Bill Frakes and Don Henderson, our NMC Board member from Apple. Inc. And Larry also shared the news that the John Lennon Bus will be present for the entire conference- this is an amazing music and video studio on wheels. We are announcing two special opportunities for conference attendees to get some "time on the bus"- one is a drawing for 6 people to spend a day on the Lennon Bus recording music and the other is Rock Hall 2.0 - a chance for anyone to sign up for a 15 minute session to record any kind of audio loop, that will ultimately be shared as a free resource. And there are a lot of things happening at the conference celebrating the 15th year of the NMC - check out the NMC@15 photo collection (and add your own photos of "fifteen-ness" soon as we are making a commemorative video).