Take this digital media challenge and save a life
Joan Peckolick, the founder and director of Selfchec.org, which leverages the power of human relationships to promote health, is one of the...
Read MoreUS Elections: The View from Everywhere Else
Reuters and Global Voices have launched a new web site called Voices without Votes that aggregates views on the US elections from bloggers...
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Non-profit media: Bread for the City’s ambitious community vision
One of the perks of my new job as communications editor at iFOCOS is listening in on conversations that Andrew and Dale are having....
Read MoreLook Who’s Coming to We Media: Hip Hop Caucus, Google News, Sunlight Foundation and Bertelsmann’s Richard Sarnoff
Here’s a just-confirmed addition to the We Media Miami schedule: Richard Sarnoff, President of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments...
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Northern Virginia Think Tank, iFOCOS, and Investment Firm, LaunchBox Digital, Partner to Accelerate Media Startups
RESTON, VA–(February 3, 2008) – LaunchBox Digital, an early-stage investment firm and organizer of...
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Got an idea? We’ve got a new launching pad
Let’s say you have thought up a genius idea: a new way to advertise, to network, to save the world. How will you launch it into...
Read MoreWe Media Badges
For members of the We Media Community, or anyone coming to We Media Miami, or anyone else who thinks the We Media conversation is worth...
Read MorePODCAST: ‘Make It As Fun As Playing Halo 3:’ Grant Harrison on Health Technology with a Consumer POV
One of We Media Miami’s most exciting panels may be Wednesday, Feb. 27′s afternoon session on the future of health media,...
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The Gravitational Pull of February 26
As we enter February today, pulling closer and closer to the big-bang happening of We Media Miami, Feb. 26-28, it’s time to get...
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Sao Paulo’s Motoboys, Madrid’s Accessibility Mash-up, and Real-life Media Empowerment
Is technology about more than buying the new MacBook Air or downloading an application that links your fridge with your Facebook...
Read MoreWanted: Free labor
The social web depends on content, tagging and utility created or improved by the good will of the people formerly known as the...
Read MoreMySpace Protestors, Myanmar Bloggers and the Diverse Media of the Future
Vinita Srivastava, an assistant professor of journalism at Ryerson University, is no old-school j-prof. A children’s-book author,...
Read MoreWe are all big brother (aka – The Scarlet Letter Revisited)
Facebook and other social networks are a new tool for citizen-powered justice. See, for instance, Witness Hub, which focuses the tools of...
Read MorePre-conference warm-up with Corinna Moebius of Imagine Miami
What’s that feeling you often have when leaving an exciting conference? “Dang it, I didn’t get a chance to talk to X or Y...
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Do I really need to attend another conference?
Having started out this week as iFOCOS’s new part-time communications editor, I sat down with Dale and Andrew to ask some probing...
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