9/11 Symposium

For those of you who read my blog two weeks ago you will recall that I am involved with a upcoming symposium on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Its called September 11th: Ten Years Later, Impact on the Heartland.    

New new media will play a large roll in this event. If you visit our homepage on our website, you will find that we have a Twitter feed. One can also like any articles that they read on their Facebook page. Another way of new media is streaming live video. You can watch the live stream here. The symposium is set to begin Friday, September 9 at 8:30 am. We are going to be streaming all day until about 6pm. We will also be streaming Peter Bergen to a private audience. Peter Bergen was one of only a few who ever interviewed Osama Bin Laden. Then Saturday, September, 10 we again start at 8am and will go until 6pm.

Some of the other new media we are using is Skype. We have purchased to iPad 2's and have sent them one of them to Washington D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania. We have a reporter who will be live at each location and will let us know whats happening at the sites of the crashes. The iPad 2's have both a front and rear camera so the reporter will be able to switch between the two cameras to get the appropriate shots. We have 3G running on all the iPads so as long as we have a strong cellphone service we should be ok. However, we are dealing with technology and we never know what can happen.

During the live streaming video, you will see graphics on screen, along with Powerpoint presentations, videos and a lot more. It will be a couple of long days, but it will be interesting listening to all the wonderful speakers we have coming.

Remember to check out the stream if you have sometime this Friday and Saturday.