Activist world forum: Innovative applications of media emerge in every sector of life. It’s not just about blogs,Facebook and You Tube. Session Chair: Suzanne Turner, CEO of Turner Strategies was the session chairand she summarized the forum as a way of making changes using innovative tools that we have. The forum was composed of four […]
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, […]
Can we trust media? Is the real substance, the real news? Which are the filters of information media has? Why is important to consider media literacy for the future as a tool? When and how to teach media literacy? In Kindergarden? Is it only for college students or is important for grown ups just starting […]
Panel – Session chair: Susan Mernit, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, iFOCOS, and blogger Mary Hodder, Founder, Dabble Judith Meskill, COO, Crowd Fusion Carolyn Washburn, VP & Executive Editor, The Des Moines Register Barbara Kahn, Dean, University of Miami School of Business Administration Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab Everyone in the room is an “expert” and the forum will […]
“As journalism declines, the influence and impact of nonprofit media will expand.” Session Chair: John Bracken, Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation With: Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Ellen Miller, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation Intro: John Bracken. The term nonprofit is similar to blogs in that it encompasses so much and […]