An attempt to comprehensively round up blog posts by conference participants and attending journalists (with apologies that they are organized a bit randomly.) Rachel Sterne: “Reuters Scientist demonstrates Mojo at We Media conference,” Ground Report blog, Feb. 27 “New Media Leaders Discuss How Campaigns Can Win,” Ground Report blog, Feb. 27 Bridget Carey: “Debate over […]
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
Last week’s We Media conference in Miami was a blur of interesting people I wish I had more time to talk to. Some people, of course, I didn’t get a chance to speak with at all. I was delighted, then, to see that Matt Dickman, director of Digital Marketing at Fleisman-Hillard in Cleveland posted three […]
More than 300 people from 13 countries gathered last week in Miami for our annual deep dive into the emergence of We Media as a defining force for the connected society. We’re already working on several big ideas we heard to take the conversation forward – through new research, the We Media Community, member working […]
“Journalism should have a profound social impact,” said Alberto Ibarguen, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This quote defines the root of the Knight Foundation’s partnership with the Ashoka: Innovator for the Public. The Knight Foundation will invest $3 million in Ashoka to find social entrepreneurial journalists. This partnership will fund […]
Audio from the opening remarks of We Media 2008, the Print is Dead, Print Reincarnated and The Power to Change the World sessions are now available for streaming through this post or individual download through the player embedded here. Please check back for more updates. (Photography by Tom Stepp)
How they do what they do? In 2004 Harvard fellows realized that several people in the world were blogging but people in US could not get the content, because of the language barrier, there were no content of some regions of the World, there were several issues not covered by mainstream media in many countries […]
Here’s some key quotes that Craig Smith noted: jen: connects moms together randy: care2 “[care2 is all about] Helping people feel empowered” chris: topix “nobody reads the newspaper but everyone wants to be in it” ” will lead to a 10% jump in world productivity over the next few years” suha: real girls media “[on […]
Question: What is the dialogue like in business today? Is it fear/excitement? Lawrence: The dialogue in business is a spectrum from anxious to terrified! The logic from one to many may no longer apply, or may need to make room for this new model. Organizational form (manufacturing economics) that tend to oligopoly may not apply […]
Networked Economics | Leveraging connections Everything is networked: friendship, professional life, customers, knowledge, causes and commerce. These networks represent new opportunities to invent, innovate and disrupt. What do philanthropists, advocates, social entrepreneurs, tech startups, journalists, venture capitals and everyday users now have in common? Have networks changed the nature of business?Session Chair: Merrill Brown, Chairman, […]