Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Weathering The Storm by R. Thomas Umstead

The National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications kicks off the second day of its 23rd Annual Conference in Denver this morning amidst the potential threat of a major snowstorm that is projected to drop up to a foot of snow in the city.

The diversity-tinged organization is already trying to weather a business storm created by the slow recovering economy and the conference’s move out of New York City for the first time to Denver as part of the industry-backed Cable Connections Fall program that also combined the annual Kaitz Foundation fundraiser dinner and the CTAM, SCTE and ACC conferences into a week-long event.

NAMIC is projecting in the neighborhood of 400 attendees for this year’s conference, a far cry from the 850 members that attended last year’s confab as cable company cost-cutting measures kept many of NAMIC’s core attendee base of lower- and mid-level executives home.

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R. Thomas Umstead, Reed Business

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