ACS-2008 Philadelphia
by mitch on Jun 22 2008 (3707 Views)The next ACS national meeting is less than 2 months away and already the facebook groups are getting created around it. [event] As these conference registration fees can become expensive for even graduate student members ($165), I tried to see if I could get mine comped. I applied as a press/media member, I knew it was a long shot since they even say on the webpage, "restricted to reporters and editors working full-time for print or broadcast news". After a couple emails between me and the ACS Office of Communications I received the following email.
Dear Mitch,
Your request for credentials is approved. The ACS national meeting Press Center will be located in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. A media workroom will be included in the press center and is equipped with wireless internet capabilities, telephones, computers, and copy and fax services.
Press materials, which include a CD-ROM of the meeting abstracts, will be available at registration.
I'm not sure if other chemistry blogs will qualify, but apparently the bloggers at ChemistryBlog have now been granted media credentials by the ACS. See you at the meeting.
Mitch
Hellz yeah (can I say that on an ACS certified press website?)
Now I have legit excuse to make Chemistry Blog t-shirt, caps, pens, aprons, fanny-packs, and maybe official logoed condoms
We definitely need official condoms.
Erm. And what exactly would you have to do to get Mitch to give you a Chemistry Blog condom?
Also, Noel said "logoed" stuff, but there is not really a logo here, more of just a banner. Maybe you should consider getting a logo. I could make one for you I guess, I did two years as a graphics design major before finding and switching to chemistry.
Or maybe a contest!
Score one for Mitch! Over 4 years ago, I recall hearing a story about how bloggers were given press access to both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. I thought that was pretty cool.
I hope the rules don't change for March; I'm planning on attending, presenting and (begging) inquiring about jobs.
I definitely misread "media credentials" as "mafia credentials."
I have been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto recently.
[...] P.S. Expect dispatches from the conference. I’ll be covering a wide slice of the sessions with my new ACS press-pass: ACS-2008 Philadelphia. [...]