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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. Chad CapellmanChad Capellman is the web producer for wemedia.com. He has served in this capacity for every We Media conference even while working for other employers that included […]
With Jeff Gomez, author, Print is Dead and Roger Black, Principal, Danilo-Black Blogged by Barbara Iverson: post one, two, and three. Chad CapellmanChad Capellman is the web producer for wemedia.com. He has served in this capacity for every We Media conference even while working for other employers that included Boston.com, Eons.com and O’Reilly Media. He […]
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, […]
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 Chad […]