Milwaukee Digital Media Conference

Registration for The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference is now live! More information about the conference is available on our website at http://www.milwaukeedmc.com/.

The Human Network

Last week I saw a lot of posters in the DC subway system about Cisco's new human network campaign. When I came home I was catching up on some streamed episodes of The Office and they had on a commercial from Cisco on the human network. I absolutely loved the commercial and feel they have captured the convergence culture we are living in. The audio is:

Welcome.

Welcome to a brand new day.

A new way of getting things done.

Welcome to a place where maps are rewritten and remote villages are included.

A place where body language is business language.

Where people subscribe to people not magazines.

And the team you follow now follows you.

Welcome to a place where books rewrite themselves.

Where you can drag and drop people wherever they want to go

And a phone doubles as a train ticket, plane ticket, or lift ticket

Welcome to a place where a wedding is captured and recaptured again and again

Where home video is experienced everywhere at once

Where a library travels across the world

Where businesses are born, countries are transformed

And we are more powerful together than we can ever be apart.

Welcome to the human network.

We will be exploring many of these themes at the Milwaukee Digital Media Conference this summer July 28th-31st. Come join us!

What's New at The Stephens Group

Early registration for The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference is available at our conference web site at http://milwaukeedmc.com/ . If you register by May 1^st you can save $50 off the cost of the registration. This year’s conference will be held at the Milwaukee Public Zoo from July 28^th-31^st. This is a hands-on conference in which you will learn about wikis, digital mapping, digital photography, video-editing, and podcasting. We have also added a student strand for students grades 3-6. (Students in grade 7-12 are welcome to come with their teachers and participate in the adult strand).

Registration is also still open for The Stephens Group Using Digital Media in the Classroom Workshops on May 10^th. We are offering classes on Advanced Podcasting and Free Digital Media Tools. More information is available at our website at http://www.thestephensgroup.com/workshops.php .

Consultants will be presenting at the Wisconsin Educational Media Technology Association (WEMTA) April 6^th-8^th on Web 2.0 Tools for Information Technology Planning, Lessons Learned in the Digital Media Explosion, Video-conferencing, Data Driven Decision Making, & One-to-One Computing. Information on times and locations of sessions are available at http://www.thestephensgroup.com/conferences.php#WisconsinEducationalMediaampTechnologyAssociation

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