<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">anyone interested?<div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"erika wagner" <<a href="mailto:erika@MIT.EDU">erika@MIT.EDU</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 9, 2008 8:38:16 AM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"William T G Litant" <<a href="mailto:wlitant@mit.edu">wlitant@mit.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>NASA PR brainstorm (READ ME)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>Let's try this again...<br><br>Hi Lisa,<br>Bill Litant in Aero/Astro passed along your name as a local expert passionate about web-based communication and outreach. I've been doing some work recently with Dr. Alan Stern, the Associate Administrator for Science at NASA. He has come to recognize that the way NASA communicates its science with the public is inneffective, old-fashioned, and as he puts it "my father's Oldsmobile."<br><br>In a nutshell, Alan has recently become passionate about improving the way NASA reaches out to the public -- particularly 18-35 year olds -- and is looking for more creative multimedia and Web 2.0 outlets to effectively do so.<br><br>He will be in Boston on Sunday Feb 17th and asked if I might help engage a group from the Media Lab and other creative thinkers at MIT to brainstorm with him on the topic that afternoon. (I apologize whole-heartedly for the lousy timing, but this was Alan's one chance to do this in person, and he really wanted to sit around a table with folks, rather than teleconferencing.)<br><br>Does this sound like something you might enjoy being involved in? Or do you know other staff, students, or faculty that should be included? (We're in the process of working with folks in CMS and Aero/Astro, but welcome other additions.)<br><br>Many thanks for your time!<br>-Erika Wagner<br><br>====================================<br>"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful,<br>committed citizens can change the world.<br>Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."<br> ~*~ Margaret Mead<br><br>Dr. Erika B. Wagner<br>w: 617.253.0017<br><a href="mailto:erika@mit.edu">erika@mit.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:elb@alumni.vanderbilt.edu">elb@alumni.vanderbilt.edu</a><br>Science Director, Mars Gravity Biosatellite<br><a href="http://www.marsgravity.org">http://www.marsgravity.org</a><br>Executive Director, X PRIZE @ MIT<br>http://www.xprize.org <br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div class="AppleMailSignature" id="53D03D9F-F582-418C-ACBD-CFF797C46B60"><div style="; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Lisa C. 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