Please allow me to do my due diligence. These awards are truly significant. Your participation will, with the receipt of an award, add luster and – even better – share your work with a large interested audience. I hope you will both consider submitting your work for an award and consider joining the Society for New Communication Research. Details of this year’s awards program follow.
The final submission deadline for the 2008 Excellence in New Communications Awards. is coming up soon! Submit your entries now …

Neville Hobson has been following our class digital/social media activities since, well – really the beginning. It was nice to see him again at the Edelman / PRWeek New Media Academic Summit in Chicago.
Neville recently wrote about his Summit experiences in What academics think about social media.

Alexandra Wheeler, Director of Digital at Starbucks, kindly agreed to an interview at the Edelman/PRWeek New Media Academic Summit in Chicago, a few weeks back.
Starbucks recently launched (March ’08?) their site – my Starbucks Idea. This BusinessWeek article explains more. 

Five of the faculty members attending the Edelman / PRWeek New Media Academic Summit kindly agreed to interviews recently in Chicago. My apologies for not getting more, but this is a fairly representative sample.
The five faculty members come from diverse universities, both large and medium sized. Sorry, I didn’t get any from small schools. My bad.
Enrollments range from 11,000+ (Howard & SDSU) to 22,000+ at Northeastern, while the enrollment is 31,000+ at UNT and 32,000+ at UGA. Two are private (Howard & Northeastern). Three are …