We are just hours away from the beginning of WeMedia. As I have been telling you, over 200 leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future. Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin concepts, […]
For the We Media conference, I wrote up essays on each of the Game Changer award winners (Here’s a roundup essay on trends we saw: Crowd-Forging, social good combined with profit. I had conversations with each winner, and they were often wide-ranging probes into the idea of what “we media” is, what it means to […]
Update: Click here to sign up for the tour The March 2009 issue of The Sun has an interview with Nicholas Carr, the guy who wrote the cover story in last July’s issue of The Atlantic: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Whoa, you say. But Carr has an interesting argument: “As we increasingly connect with the world […]
More from the “why don’t they love us more” campaign: Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, appearing on U.S. cable channel MSNBC this week (to promote sales of a new book about the Obama campaign): “It bothers me … to give away this journalism that I more than anyone see immense value […]
The drumbeat that is WeMedia is getting louder and louder. Starting on Tuesday, two-hundred of the world’s most innovative leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future. Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin […]
… and the winners are… Here is a quick rundown of the We Media Game Changer Award-winners. (Full essays on each will be available at the We Media conference and online, soon.) SocialVibe spurs social networkers to choose charities they can reward financially with dollars from sponsors who get a deeply engaged audience. Ze Frank […]
We continue our countdown to WeMedia with an introduction to the GameChangers, from contributor Dorian Benkoil. We Media Game Changers Ignite The Spark of Motivation (See a list of the award winners.) The We Media Game Changers inspire us to give our most precious resources: time, energy, money and ideas. They compel us to be […]
Another podcast! WeMedia is into its second month of producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. This is the sixth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking […]
The Countdown to WeMedia continues! One week from today, two-hundred of the world’s most innovative leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future. Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin concepts, the very idea […]
Robin Wauters on TechCrunch talks about the end of “Web 2.0” as a term, and ponderswhat the decline in use of the term means (giving some evidence as to why it’s declining). But as “Web 2.0” declines as a term, that doesn’t mean that what Tim O’Reilly was describing in coining the phrase is declining, […]
The Countdown to WeMedia continues! One week from today, two-hundred of the world’s most innovative leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future. Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin concepts, the very idea […]
The Countdown to WeMedia has begun! In just over a week, two-hundred of the world’s most innovative leaders, executives, investors, marketers, activists, educators, entrepreneurs and game changers will gather in Miami for a one-of-a-kind conversation about the future. Innovation and entrepreneurship are hot topics right now — more than just buzzwords or back-of-the-napkin concepts, the […]
The future of newspapers is a hot topic — especially right now (with the economy tanking and announcements from newspapers about new and bigger financial troubles coming every day), and especially for newspapers. Few would argue that without significant changes, the newspaper industry may cease to exist, as we know it, within a relatively short […]
We’re wrapping up work on the valuable content participants will receive at We Media Miami, Feb. 24-26, including a portfolio of case studies, thinking papers and new venture profiles. We’re expecting a great crowd – and if you’ve been thinking about coming but still haven’t registered, hurry! Time is running out. Click here to register […]
It seems to me that if we want to get the economy back on track, we are going to have to do it ourselves. So what is stopping us? It appears that Congress has finally reached an agreement on the economic stimulus bill. I am told this is great news. I hope you will forgive […]