C-SPAN to Broadcast Keynote Address Presented by Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes at the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference

C-SPAN to Broadcast Keynote Address Presented by Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes at the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference

Broadcast Scheduled for Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:00 P.M. EST

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- NAMIC (National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications) today announced that C-SPAN will broadcast a keynote address delivered by technology superstar Chris Hughes at the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference. The broadcast was pre-recorded on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at a General Session of the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference, which was held October 26-28 at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, Colorado. The 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference was presented as part of Cable Connection-Fall, a week of events uniting major industry associations, conferences and meetings in a single location. C-SPAN will broadcast the Chris Hughes presentation, "Keynote from the Social Media Mountaintop" on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. EST.

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"Chris has greatly influenced the direction of technology and new media, which is creating a paradigm shift within the communications industry and the business community at-large," said Kathy Johnson, president, NAMIC. "We were thrilled to have featured Chris at this year's Conference and share his exciting and compelling presentation with C-SPAN's viewing audience."

As the co-founder of Facebook and the mastermind behind My.BarackObama.com, two of the most successful startups in modern history, Hughes has spent his brief career developing technologies to make social communication and political organizing easier and more efficient. Since Hughes co-founded Facebook in 2004, the site has garnered over 200 million users. In 2007, Hughes left Facebook to work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign as Director of Online Organizing, where he was charged with developing web technologies to engage and empower supporters. Hughes oversaw the development of the on-site network My.BarackObama.com along with the campaign's presence on other networks like Facebook and MySpace. The campaign's new media strategy revolutionized the use of the Web as a political tool. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, Hughes is now an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners.

Rainbow Media's WE tv was the official sponsor of the General Session of the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference, which featured Hughes' keynote address.

C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company created by the cable television industry as a public service. It produces and distributes C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, C-SPAN3 and C-SPAN Radio.

For more information on the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications and the 23rd Annual NAMIC Conference, visit www.namic.com.

About NAMIC

NAMIC (National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications) is the premier organization focusing on multi-ethnic diversity in the communications industry. Founded in 1980 as a non-profit trade association, today NAMIC comprises 2,000 professionals belonging to a network of 18 chapters nationwide. Through initiatives that focus on education, advocacy and empowerment, NAMIC champions equity and inclusion in the workforce, with special attention given to ensuring that the leadership cadres of our nation's communications industry giants reflect the multi-ethnic richness of the populations they serve. For more information, please visit www.namic.com.

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CONTACT: Daphne Leroy, Vice President, Marketing & Communications,
NAMIC, +1-212-594-5985, daphne.leroy@namic.com; or Charmaine Chapman, BTB
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Web Site: http://www.namic.com/

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