Rarely do you attend a conference where the accumulated intellectual star power on one stage is as great as was the case in our final group panel discussion at the We Media conference Friday morning. We had presidents and pollsters, intellectuals and editors, donors and corporate folks all gathered for one chat. What we did […]
The average age of the We Media audience dropped significantly when “The Content Creatives’ took the stage for the first panel discussion on Friday. The discussion was supposed to pick up where Thursday night’s video presentation (outside under the stars) left off, helping the collective media brain trust in the audience understand what kinds of […]
I’m not sure that the third major discussion of the We Media conference was appropriately titled, but it sure was interesting. Yes, the concept of ‘soft power’ implies that there are sources of influence that are not tied explicitly to military or financial might… and that influence is quite regularly demonstrated by the media, and […]
There were numerous references to the ‘elephant in the room’ at the second session of We Media’s on Thursday. What is the elephant? Money. Of course. No matter what role you play in the media space – head of a newspaper conglomerate trying to figure out how to integrate citizen media into your operation, individual […]
Everyone’s out on the grove, drinking mojitos and chatting away. Night has finally fallen, which means it’s dark enough for us to see the screen clearly. We’ll be watching some videos created for the web, and it’s a great end to a long, productive, thought-provoking day.
some other ideas from the panel that seemed of some importance: -If you don’t have a revenue model yet, there is no need to worry about it now as long as you manage to create a community around a theme or an issue