URL: http://www.viewmagazine.tv What: David defines the future of professional journalism: immensely visual, built around video and voiceover, with a strong design sensibility, and production skills unmatched by mere mortals. Nominated for: Story telling Rate Here: David Dunkley Gyimah Beth LaingBeth Laing is the project manager for iFOCOS, which organizes the We Media conferences, awards and […]
URL: www.geniusrocket.com What: An open, crowdsourcing marketplace for the advertising industry – and a hub for viral marketing. Anyone can compete to make ads for anyone. Brands pay for the most creative work, which can come from anywhere; and GeniusRocket offers prizes for the best work. The model disrupts the traditional business relationship between advertisers […]
URL: www.borninseptember.org What: A former New York City club hopper and party promoter finds purpose in bringing clean drinking water to Africa, and changes the game for cause marketing by cleverly combining powerful photo and video story-telling with social networking for good. Nominated for: Social Impact, Pattern Change, Story-telling Rate here: Born in September Beth […]
URL: http://www.freewheelinwaytogo.com What: Bike sharing was a hit when launched in Paris in 2007. It was cheap, convenient and eco-friendly. End of story? Not so fast. A U.S. health insurer changed the game and wrote a new story. Humana promotes its business agenda – lower health care costs – through a state-of-the-art bike sharing program […]
URL: hub.witness.org People: Peter Gabriel and others What: Peter Gabriel’s Witness was a visionary game changer when it was created a decade ago: putting cameras in the hands of ordinary people to document and bring world attention to human rights issues. Its video sharing web site, Witness Hub, leaps forward by networking digital photographers and […]
URL: www.innocentive.com What: An “open innovation community” founded in 2001, Innocentive applied theories of crowdsourcing and “the wisdom of the crowd” to re-invent how pharmaceutical and other science-based companies acquire and pay for basic research. Innocentive connects “seekers” and “solvers.” The seekers – companies with specific research needs – broadcast their needs to a global […]
URL: www.blogher.com What: Reacting to blogging conferences and academic discussions dominated by techy men, three tech, marketing and publishing saavy women – Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins – launched a blog conference in 2005 for women. The conference took off, a year later major advertisers flocked to hang out with the […]
Awards honor people, projects and ideas that use media to change the world. An international panel of pioneers from media, technology, business, social activism and blogging will judge nominees for the new We Media Game Changers Awards. The awards recognize people, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media. Winners […]
We have a special rate of $284/night available for We Media attendees at The Sonesta Bayfront Hotel (2889 McFarlane Rd) in the charming and funky neighborhood of Coconut Grove. Availability is on a first-come basis and reservations must be made by January 25, 2009 for the rate to be honored. To make your reservation online […]
Speaking at: We Media Buenos Aires – Oct. 14-15, 2008 Eduardo Hauser leads DailyMe, a media and technology start-up he founded in 2005. DailyMe offers a user-centric news destination, a platform for publishers to enhance their sites through personalization, and tools for individual publishers to enrich their users’ experience. In 1998, prior to founding DailyMe, Hauser […]