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TEDxCMU would not have happened without the help of the very generous staff at Carnegie Mellon University. As a new organization, it was challenging for us to launch this event and get all the resources we needed.

We’ve definitely had our highs and lows, and have worked closely with Carnegie Mellon University these past few months to make our event successful. We are grateful to have TEDxCMU be a featured story on their homepage and look forward for more ways we can work together in the future!

TEDxCMU will go live tomorrow starting 10:00am EST. Check out our schedule and be sure to view our free livestream!

These last few days leading up to TEDxCMU have been very eventful – we’re touched by the help, support and feedback that we’ve received from everyone and want to say thank you! For all those who plan to tune in to the livestream, we’ve been working with cmuTV and ABTech to set the equipment up, so be sure to tune in to http://www.tedxcmu.com/watch on April 4th, 2008 at 10am EST. To make this an engaging community experience, we’re working with LiveFyre, a California based startup that’s building a live conversation platform.

This ‘fyre’ will be embedded on our site as well as on livefyre.com and will allow viewers to discuss the event and get updates in real-time from the team. This is spanking new technology, and we’re excited that we’re going to be able to showcase some features to viewers before they are publicly available.

Just based on the number of ticket requests we’ve received, and the press coverage thanks to TED and CMU we’re expecting a ton of viewers. Rest assured, we’ve been stress testing our servers and equipment to make sure everything runs smoothly on the day of the event.

If you haven’t already, please follow us on twitter, friend us on facebook and most importantly – tell your friends to tune in!