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
Read More ›
Carlos Garcia and Omar Ramos presented and did a live demo of Scrapblog: “Scrapblog is a free web service that allows everyone to create multimedia scrapblogs.”
The “pitch this!” session is unlike any other. The tension is palatable, as people are sitting around the table, as if in a boardroom, ready to pitch their project in 3 minutes or less to professional investors and strategists. Images and Voices of Hope goes first. The initial pitch is a little fuzzy (by contrast […]
After a Random Act of Media, the WeMedia Forum Miami dove into its Investment forum, which asked “Who will pay for new ways to understand news and act on it?” The panel included a mixture of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs; Scott Rafer, MyBlogLog; Chris Ahearn, Reuters; Jeff Taylor, Monster and Eons; Chris Versace, Agile Equity; […]
How communities real and virtual are changing through media. What are the new ways for people to use information, news, and journalism to imagine their collective possibilities as communities and to set and reach common community goals. Can community be virtual? Let’s find out what some of the web thinkers and tinkers think.
Some highlighed blog posts from the We Media Launch and this morning’s session. If I’ve missed any, please add in the comments Media Literacy as a Family Value and We Media Community Forum(Andy Carvin) We Media LiveBlogging Intro+Community Forum (Publictivity.comBlog) We Media Kicks Off (Down the Avenue) We Media Conference, Miami (Media Guardian/Organ Grinder) We Media 2007 Community Forum (Hyku) […]
The first session degenerated (is that the right word?) into a discussion about who should control the conversation in our society: “little m” media (bloggers and community contributors) or “Big M” media (i.e. media companies and professional journalists). We have had that conversation – several times (at We Media alone) – and very little new ground was broken. Why is […]
Last night at a Miami/We Media bloggers dinner (hosted by Alex deCarvalho of Scrapblog) Andy Carvin and I got into a discussion about how we got blogging…which got us thinking: how do bloggers get to be bloggers? Why do we take up self-publishing? Where did the passion for media–that’s evident in so many of us–come from?
Those of you who’ve visited the Global Voices web site are probably familiar with our core mission, and the ways in which we’ve been trying to fulfill it thus far. The central feature of Global Voices has been our international blog aggregator, which is driven today by a team comprising nine regional editors, six language […]
Communities exist in many forms, from chatter on a forum or bulletin board through to multi-player 3D virtual worlds. But what engagement models work and how can media companies nurture communities without alienating them as devices of corporate interests? In our open discussion on Thursday at 12.30pm at the WeMedia conference in Miami we hope […]