Shameless WeMedia Promotion (1 of many)

We are just over a month away from the beginning of our annual WeMedia event in Miami — and I assure you, it is going to be an incredible, must-attend event.  I strongly suggest you join us.

I can prove it to you.  I am going to use this space on the blog each day to highlight one element of this year’s WeMedia.  Every day, I’ll introduce you to one of our attendees, highlight a workshop, or preview a paper we are releasing.  Keep reading, I’ll tell you about Pitch It.  If you can’t find a reason to attend in this list, something that will benefit your work, or change your life, I’m thinking the problem might be on your end.
First, some background… We Media is part summit, part workshop, part symposium, part how-to seminar, part innovators’ brain-share and meet-up, and part showcase for game-changing projects and ideas. It is the one place where change-makers from all sectors exchange knowledge, stimulate creativity, and breed innovation.  No boring panels.  No self-promotional drivel. Just smart people, gathering together, sharing ideas, and changing the world.   If you are charged with transforming your business or organization, it is the essential gathering for launching change.

Trust me, you want to be a part of this event — register.

Still not convinced?  What if I told you that you would hear start-ups pitch and test new concepts and new models to business-tested executives, social entrepreneurs, investors and practitioners, with the best ideas in the commercial and social/nonprofit categories each walking away with $25,000 each?  That’s our Pitch-It competition.  We are pouring through 350 entries from entrants in 47 countries and will soon announce 16 finalists — 8 with a commercial focus, and 8 with a non-profit/social focus.  The next killer app might be in this group.  A much needed, world-changing innovation will start with one of these presentations.  The future of news is represented in the room.

Are you going to risk missing that?  I hope not – you know, for your sake.  Register today.

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Brian Reich

Brian is Managing Director of little m media which provides strategic guidance and support to organizations around the use of the internet and technology to facilitate communications, engagement, education, and mobilization. He is well known for his expertise in new media, web 2.0, social networks, mobile, community, ecommerce, brand marketing, cause branding, and more. Reich, the author of Media Rules!: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience (Wiley 2007). He blogs at Thinking About Media and contributes as a Fast Company Expert. Previously, Reich was a principal of EchoDitto, one of the most successful online communications agencies in the nation, Director of New Media for Cone Inc, a brand strategy and communications agency in Boston and a Senior Strategic Consultant and Director of Boston Operations for Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, an interactive public affairs agency. From 2000 – 2004, Brian ran how own strategic communications firm, Mouse Communications. Reich has worked in and around politics, including helping to direct dozens of campaigns across the country. He spent two years as Vice President Gore’s Briefing Director in the White House, handling both official activities and activities during his 2000 presidential campaign. Brian serves on the board of Investigate West, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of investigative and narrative journalism. Brian served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, DC and is currently teaching a course on consumer behavior and marketing at Columbia University in New York. Brian attended the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Columbia University. He and his wife, Karen Dahl, live in New York City with their son, Henry.

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