Jeff Jarvis to deliver President's Lecture in New York

It's now official that we have landed Jeff Jarvis to deliver a President's Lecture during the USA module next January in New York. We're really excited about this, especially given Jeff's current (and quite public for the blogosphere) battle against cancer. The fact that confirmation came now during Jeff's convalescence from surgery is testimony to Jeff's love of his work or unflappability, or both.

Our Class 2 cohort had a great session with Jeff in New York in May 2008, and for that we have class valedictorian and web guru Shaun Abrahamson to thank for the tip. Since then we've begun working together with Jeff on his New Business Models for News initiative and will even unveil some current group projects related to that when we're in the U.S.

Jeff joined our Board of Governors last year and has now become even more influential in media circles due to his terriffic book synthesizing web economy business principles, What Would Google Do?

The lecture will be open to the public (with invitations going out in January), and the date is set for January 22. Mark those calendars, New Yorkers. The rest of you can catch the video of it on the website afterwards.

Jeff's blog Buzzmachine is also worth a bookmark...