My Challenge to Google Ventures
Google announced this week that they were creating a venture capital arm whose main objective will be to turn a profit. The group, called...
Read MoreA branding challenge for social entrepreneurs
Originally published on NextBillion.net Two weeks ago I attended the We Media conference in Miami as a We Media Fellow . The conference...
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Keys To Launching A Successful Social Enterprise
As a part of the Entrepreneur’s Caucus at last week’s WeMedia conference in Miami, I asked Krista Van Tassel to share some...
Read MoreReinventing Advertising: Tools, Youth, and Social Change
The first full day of WeMedia presented interesting challenges and opportunities regarding the state of new media, social change, and...
Read MoreHey newsies, make way for the websies
UPDATE: Clarifications have been made to this post in the comments section Three recent J school grads bemoan that they work for newspaper...
Read MoreHow Today’s Winner Becomes Tomorrow’s Game Changer
We Media’s Brian Reich and I were wondering, based on the Game Changer Award winners, what would be the attributes that would not only...
Read MoreOld News Organizations Hook the Public With New Media
At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in the community...
Read MoreOur (We) Media Dissonance
The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the...
Read MoreWe Media/Zogby Poll: Who will lead us to a better future?
Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the news media,...
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A Conversation with Krista Van Tassel of Net Impact
Another podcast! WeMedia is into its second month of producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media,...
Read MoreIt’s Not the Death, But Rather the Acceptance, of “Web 2.0″
Robin Wauters on TechCrunch talks about the end of “Web 2.0″ as a term, and ponderswhat the decline in use of the term means...
Read MoreThis Week In Newspapers
The future of newspapers is a hot topic — especially right now (with the economy tanking and announcements from newspapers about new...
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The Future of News? Yes.
The platitudes replay and recycle like a broken record: news is a conversation, it's networked, it's all about the crowd, we've got to preserve the values, the traditions, the jobs, and above all we need to discover and exploit the fucking hell out of whatever "the" business model turns out to be.
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