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PitchIt! Challenge winner fine-tunes the details of their next-generation crowd journalism platform.

Don’t assume that Paypal or Google Checkout will be your payment processor.

Dan Kennedy wrote for The Guardian
a flattering profile of SeeClickFix, one of the 2009 winners of our PitchIt investment challenge. Congratulations CEO Ben Berkowitz and crew – and stay tuned for more PitchIt later this summer.

An update and some advice on technical sourcing from Lucas Sommer, founder of Audimated and We Media Pitch-it winner.

AssignIt and Audimated won We Media’s 2010 PitchIt! Challenge March 11 in Miami, beating six other commercial and non-profit groups vying for the $25,000 prizes.

We’re busy mashing mint, and a few other ingredients for We Media Miami next week. Please try to say hello to Dale and me if you’re there, and if not, join us, contribute and say hi online.

Diana’s leadership has created and expanded social entrepreneur programs and improved their effectiveness.

Steve is committed to providing a strong platform for the creation, organization and presentation of the stories and ideas that people make, share and provide feedback.

Andrea’s extensive background in fundraising and financial services provide a strong base for exploring and developing new financial models in philanthropy.

2009 We Media PitchIt! winners SeeClickFix’s Ben Berkowitz and The Extraordinairies Jacob Colker talk with Ely Bonder about where they are now and what they took away from We Media 2009.

Brian is an expert on how people get and share information, how that continues to develop with ongoing developments both in technology and media and what organizations need to be effective.

Get the inside track on how to get your new idea off the ground with advice and feedback from entrepreneurial experts.

Weiss is a renowned strategic thinker and senior executive who provides counsel corporate leaders, boards and high net worth investors worldwide.

Among the many extraordinary efforts to provide aid and relief for the people of Haiti comes this one from The Extraordinaries, winner of last year’s We Media Pitch It! competition: the Haiti Earthquake Support Center utilizes crowdsourcing and facial-recognition to help locate the missing. Anyone can post photos of a missing person or loved one, [...]

Spread the word, and don’t forget: The deadline for submissions to the We Media PitchIt! Challenge is Jan. 20, 2010. The challenge offers $50,000 to help launch two new ventures that use media and communication technology. We’ll help one commercial and one non-profit idea get off the ground. Click here for details. Click here to [...]