Here we are, about to start “News World | Traditions and Transformation” — what fun! Description: “Traditional (legacy) news organizations have no choice but to continue to change in order to respond to the growth of aggregators and other WeMedia players. Learn how leaders in the field are tackling editorial, business and management challenges in […]
$25 million (Knight News Challenge) invested in innovative approaches to journalism – the result: strengthened local communities. This is the goal of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.This is Innovation world. Eric Newton starts of the conversation. He begins with how the Knight Foundation got started, in newspapers and now how the foundation […]
Yes, The person we trust most is still our physician — but he/she becomes more elusive every day. No time to really speak to them. True patient/doctor communication is difficult to achieve in our fast-moving, technologically sophisticated world. How can we use the web to improve patient/doctor communication? Power of storytelling? Me-tube? Health is about […]
A Dozen “Edutainment” Application Bundles Definition SEARCH WAS THE GREAT NEW FRONTIER. Sodden with copycats, it has become anhydrous. As Science Fiction writer Harlan Ellison has noted: “We are entertaining ourselves out of existence.” The Principia Mathematica by Russell and Whitehead would have been a thin book indeed, if it had as its base the […]
Speaker: Jeff Nolan, VP Business Development, NewsGator Jeff Nolan from NewsGator opens with a discussion on what NewsGator does, which is to create the flow and routing of content to build communities and an audience. They started off with basic RSS feeds and are now involved with creating widgets. Now what exactly is a Widget? […]
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, […]