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Spring SLAM Photo Albums
On Friday May 3, and Saturday, May 4, 2013, the New Media Institute hosted its annual Spring SLAM. All day long, NMI students showed off incredibly cool projects they worked on all semester long: Facebook apps, iBooks, mobile sites, videos. Over 20 projects in all. As a part of the New Media Health Innovative Program – sponsored [...]
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Alumni Spotlight: Claire Rock @ Southern Living
This week's NMI spotlight alumnus, Claire Rock, graduated December 2009 with a magazines degree and a New Media Certificate. She is an integrated marketing associate for Southern Living magazine. Rock now lives in New York City, preparing integrated proposals for the sales staff to sell multi-platform marketing partnerships to advertisers. She said her greatest piece of advice for New [...]
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Digital Brown Bag: NMI’s Scott Shamp
This week was the last Digital Brown Bag of the semester. NMI head and class instructor, Dr. Shamp, gave students one last lecture about that word that starts with a 'J'.
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Capstone News: Jetlag Pilot
Jetlag Genie. Jetlag App. Jet Lag Fighter. They all do the same thing, right? Why should you trust your wellness to Jetlag Pilot? The New Media Institute motto is, “Make something work, then make it work better,” and as New Media students, we are innovators, not inventors. So what needs to be improved about these [...]
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Capstone News: MedMinder
Wouldn’t it be cool if caretakers could monitor the medication intake of their elderly relatives, no matter where they are? Wouldn’t it be even cooler if that information was tracked in a web application that could provide medical insight to doctors and nurses? Introducing MedMinder, a smart pillbox designed to make monitoring medication compliance easier [...]
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Capstone News: Family Button
Staying in touch. It sounds so simple right after a family visit, but then the whirlwind that is everyday life comes and some things are lost in the mix. Grandparents love to keep up with their kids' and grandkids' latest accomplishments and activities. Sometimes though, it's just not that easy. That's where Family Button [...]
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Capstone News: Wet N’ Wild
Wouldn’t it be cool if there were an interactive book that informed children about healthy drinking habits? We’re talking about a book that changes based on the choices that readers make. We’re talking about Wet N’ Wild. This is not just any book; this is a book that the readers write. The Dilemma We’ve heard [...]
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Alumni Spotlight: Zlatko Unger @ First Data
This week's NMI Alumni Spotlight, Zlatko Unger, graduated from UGA with a NMI certificate and now works at First Data. Zlatko is Security Program Manager at First Data. He’s been working there for over three years a part of the Enterprise Risk Management team. The NMI prepared him for this position by making him aware of different tools and resources he [...]
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The Life and Times at TED MED: How Clean is Your Ear?
"Do you want a copy of this picture?" "What?" "Do you want me to send you a copy of this picture via email?" Yes, my hearing is going, but the real reason I can't hear the question is because he has an iPhone stuck in my ear. OK, not the whole iPhone — it has [...]
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SLAM it to you!
If you've been by NMI suite on the fourth floor of Grady, you may have noticed a few things. Students huddled around computers. The sounds of furious keyboards clicking until the wee hours of the morning. A certain smell of desparation in the air. That's right folks! You guessed it. SLAM is on the horizon, and [...]
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