We create the stories of the connected society

How can media and technology be used to facilitate meaningful and measurable change in our society?
Working Group Chair: Brian Reich, author, Media Rules!

Ruth Behar, professor of anthropology, University of Michigan
Luis Ramiro Beltr?°n, Bolivian journalist and scholar
Andrew Karanja Githeko, Chief Research Officer & Head: Climate and Human Health Research Unit, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Tom Kennedy, Managing [...]

Founders and would-be entrepreneurs pitch their big ideas to a panel of business-launching experts. Even if you’re not pitching an idea, come watch the competition to start the next big thing.
Chair: Rick Ducey, EVP, BIA Financial Network

Suha Araj, Founder and VP of Strategy, Real Girls Media
John McKinley, Founder, LaunchBox Digital
Joe Natoli, SVP, [...]

Women and girls are a powerful force online: They users, creators and participants, as well as marketing targets for advertisers. Yet women-led businesses and gender-balanced teams in new media are more an exception than a rule. What can some of today’s female media leaders tell us about building successful businesses, leading strong teams and creating [...]

Sponsored by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, AARP, Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft
Leading edge thinkers discuss one of the most important and personally meaningful issues of the 21st century: How communications technology and the content delivered through it will be used to improve the health and quality of life for people worldwide.
Introduced by [...]

Who can you trust in the We Media landscape? Where’s the line between commerce and information? No more is it a question of parsing the biases of individual media outlets: It’s time to define a global media-education agenda so everyone can understand how today’s media works, and how best to use it. Our goal: Create [...]

It’s supposed to be the YouTube-MySpace-power-to-the-people campaign. So why are online political junkies so frustrated with what they’ve seen so far?
Session Chair: Brian Reich, author, Media Rules!

Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
Catherine Geanuracos, Live Earth
Carolyn Washburn, Executive Editor, The Des Moines Register
Michael Silberman, EchoDitto
John Della Volpe, SocialSphere
Amy Schatz, The Wall Street [...]

With Richard Sarnoff, President, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, and William C. Weiss, Chairman &CEO, The Promar Group, Chairman, iFOCOS
Blogged by Barbara Iverson: post one and two.

With Jeff Gomez, author, Print is Dead and Roger Black, Principal, Danilo-Black
Blogged by Barbara Iverson: post one, two, and three.

Winning others to your social cause has never been easier. Hear how three new-media organizations are leveraging the power of social networks to prevent cancer, support the arts and much more.
Session Chair: Suzanne Turner, CEO, Turner Strategies

Joan Peckolick, Founder, Selfchec
James Carlson, CEO, Bucketworks
Deron Triff, Co-President and CEO, Changents
Matisse Bustos Hawkes, Outreach coordinator, WITNESS

Blogged by [...]

Sponsored by NewsGator
Advertisers and media companies are undergoing a dramatic transformation that impacts how they target and reach consumers and business users alike. Widgets and syndication services are enabling a new generation of capabilities that puts the consumer in the center and allows them to surround themselves with content from their favorite sources and discover [...]

Sponsored by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
New media is defined by online interactivity; no blog posting or article is complete with a comments section, for example. How do such virtual conversations influence, inform and reflect real-life public conversations? How can online community organizers keep participants on track and maintain order without stifling the conversation?
Chair: Hal Straus, washingtonpost.com

Mark [...]

As part of our on-going wrap-up of last month’s We Media Miami conference, I’m collecting here all the live-blog posts from the iFOCOS We Media blog, organized by panel.
The We Media fellows — that dynamic, hard-working group of folks who received some financial help to attend the conference, thanks to generous assistance from the Ethics [...]

In the previous post, I  aggregated as much online content about the conference as possible. Up top, you’ll see blog posts from conference participants. Down below is coverage specifically related to the We Media/Zogby poll.
I’ll continue to update the list, so please do comment here or email me (auseem@ifocos.org) with new links or links that [...]

An attempt to comprehensively round up blog posts by conference participants and attending journalists (with apologies that they are organized a bit randomly.)
Rachel Sterne: “Reuters Scientist demonstrates Mojo at We Media conference,” Ground Report blog, Feb. 27
“New Media Leaders Discuss How Campaigns Can Win,” Ground Report blog, Feb. 27
Bridget Carey: “Debate over what is online [...]

More audio from sessions has been added. The new sessions added to the existing sessions are:
:: Civil Discourse
:: The Future of Information & Communication Technologies in Health
:: News World | Traditions and Transformation
:: Leadership World | Women, Media and Technology
:: Political World | Hype vs. Reality in Campaign 08