Cuando escuché a Erick Hersman hablando sobre el Ushahidi pensé de inmediato en el terremoto de Pisco del año 2007 en Perú. Erick nos hablaba de una forma de conexión en momentos de crisis, que nos permitía saber qué estaba sucediendo en el lugar del incidente. “Puede tratarse de un desastre natural, un hecho de […]
Bold ideas came out of the opening session of the 2009 We Media conference. A review and summary of the projects and people behind the Game Changer awards had a common thread : In each case, these projects used social media to engage people, as individuals, citizens or community members in a way that is […]
Digital natives: Who teaches whom? Moderator: Sam Grogg, Dean, UM School of Communication. Panelists: Greg Linch, multi media reporter and senior journalism major at UM. Sanjeev Chatterjee, professor of broadcasting and executive director of the Knight Center for International Media at UM. Jody Brannon, National Director News 21, Arizona State University. Krista Van Tassel, Net […]
UPDATE: Clarifications have been made to this post in the comments section Three recent J school grads bemoan that they work for newspaper web sites where most of what they do is click buttons to paste news stories and photos on the site. This is their first job in the “new” news media. As “web […]
image: from flickr by Gaetan Lee, creative commons Rewiring the brain and changing habits and attitudes to fit the postmodern journalist: the uber journalist, the multimedia journalists. UK Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism and WeMedia Game Changer Finalist David Dunkley Gyimah reports from WeMedia Miami. Click here for Game Changers Guest Post by David as […]
We Media’s Brian Reich and I were wondering, based on the Game Changer Award winners, what would be the attributes that would not only win today’s Pitch It! presenters some of the available funding, but also see them be the Game Changers a couple/few years from now. A few things have marked the Game Changers, […]
At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in the community through new media – namely, citizen journalism. Newspapers are helping communities connect, reach out, learn more about their resources through their sites. The goal is to foster a way to make the community […]
UPDATE: Doug’s presentation can be found here Doug Poretz of Qorvis is my hero. OK maybe not, because I just met the man. But boy did he crystallize a lot of thoughts that have been running through my mind in the past month or so. I was one of the many people who were recently […]
UPDATED: 8:28 a.m. ET In a year or two, colleges will be educating freshmen who have always lived with the Internet. Mosaic, the first browser with in-line pictures, debuted in 1993, explained Rich Beckman of the University of Miami School of Communication. These digital natives or millennials, depending on who does the naming, are digitally […]
The goal is big. Make the shift from the left side of the brain to the right – the shift, Dale Peskin said, going on in society. An emergence of the creative world, a win for innovation and change. Think visually. To illustrate – the PC? So left. Evokes an image of old, from another […]
UPDATED: 8:45 PM ET Eight of us, half who have worked or still work in mainstream media, and the rest young New Media entrepreneurs, had a lively discussion about the future of so-called old or mainstream media. The consensus was that traditional mediums will not die off however they will become significantly smaller and will […]
I’m struck by how many non-profits are here at WeMedia – and not just not-profits technically-speaking, but inspiring starts ups and people of all sorts who want to encourage action and change (I was at BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps earlier this week and it was definitely more geeky of course, but businessy […]
The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book […]
Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the news media, government or large corporations Note: This week we’re holding our fifth annual We Media conference in Miami. Along with our research and other projects at iFOCOS, the We Media conferences, awards and community […]