This DBB (Tu, 10/20) – Delta Airlines, Kristen Manion

In addition to getting you safely from here to there, Delta Air Lines is using all sorts of new media to make your trip easier and better. This semester, Delta is working with a team of capstone students on ways to use social media (maybe even when you are airborne!). At our next Digital Brown Bag (Tu, 10/20, 12:30P, NMI, Room 401, 4th Floor Journalism Building), Kristen Manion, Director of Direct Marketing and Customer Relations Management will be our guest. She will explain how Delta is making effective use of new media channels. And it will be a homecoming for Kristen – she was one of the first students I taught the web way back in the day (don’t worry Kristen, I won’t say what year that day was in). Join us!

Gerry Purdy – Frost & Sullivan Mobile Analyst (Mon, 10/19)

Frost & Sullivan (http://www.frost.com/) is one of the world’s largest technology consulting companies. On Monday (10/19, 2:30p, Room 171, Miller Learning Center) Gerry Purdy the lead mobile analyst for Frost & Sullivan will be talking to NMIX 2020. Gerry has had a range of different roles in a host of companies and is currently involved in several new media startups. There will be seats available so join us to see what he thinks is going to happen next.

Willson Humanities Center Cinema Roundtable (Fri., 10/23, 4P)

On Friday, October 23, at 4 p.m. in 150 Miller Learning Center, the Willson Center Cinema Roundtable will examine “From 3D to DV: What Will Movies Look Like in the Future?” Panelists will discuss current and future technological trends in motion picture production and exhibition. Participants include Matthew Bernstein (Film Studies, Emory), Chris Sieving (Film Studies), Eddy Von Mueller (Film Studies, Emory) and me -- Scott Shamp (New Media Institute). Richard Neupert (Film Studies) will moderate the discussion.

NMIX Course PODs – coming soon! I promise!

Yes, you all probably know that the New Media Institute offers a certificate called the New Media Interdisciplinary Certificate (http://www.mynmi.net/programs/certificate/). Since the NMI’s founding ten years ago, hundreds of students have completed the certificate and have gone on to cool jobs in new media. Last week, we held orientation sessions for students interested in enrolling in the Certificate program. The good news is, over 250 students attended. The bad news is we have limited seats in the classes students need to complete the program. We have established an “application” procedure for the Certificate (http://bit.ly/40lPRh) and students have been completing online forms requesting PODs to enter the classes. We had hoped to complete the process of reviewing these applications by now, but the task has proved more daunting than we anticipated. We are working through them now and hope to be notifying students about PODs by the end of this week. Thanks in advance to everyone for being patient.