WeMedia has been kind enough to offer us a place on their blog to keep their community updated about the progress of SeeClickFix.Com. We’ll be checking in here frequently, but here’s an update on new features, new relationships, and ways you can help spread the clicking. ___New Features____*Mobile Web VersionUse SeeClickFix from your smart phone […]
Google announced this week that they were creating a venture capital arm whose main objective will be to turn a profit. The group, called Google Ventures, is expected to invest up to $100 million in the next 12 months. The New York Times article on the announcement notes that “Google will tap the connections of […]
As a part of the Entrepreneur’s Caucus at last week’s WeMedia conference in Miami, I asked Krista Van Tassel to share some insights about how to launch and sustain a successful social enterprise. Her recommendations were solid gold — which wasn’t really a surprise, since Krista is surrounded by people who are pursuing social ventures […]
The first full day of WeMedia presented interesting challenges and opportunities regarding the state of new media, social change, and journalism. Conversations revolved around the future of traditional media, expanding the scope of social media companies to facilitate social change, how to more effectively run a business, how to reach target audiences, and more. As […]
We Media’s Brian Reich and I were wondering, based on the Game Changer Award winners, what would be the attributes that would not only win today’s Pitch It! presenters some of the available funding, but also see them be the Game Changers a couple/few years from now. A few things have marked the Game Changers, […]
Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the news media, government or large corporations Note: This week we’re holding our fifth annual We Media conference in Miami. Along with our research and other projects at iFOCOS, the We Media conferences, awards and community […]
Another podcast! WeMedia is into its second month of producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news. This is the sixth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking […]
Robin Wauters on TechCrunch talks about the end of “Web 2.0” as a term, and ponderswhat the decline in use of the term means (giving some evidence as to why it’s declining). But as “Web 2.0” declines as a term, that doesn’t mean that what Tim O’Reilly was describing in coining the phrase is declining, […]
The platitudes replay and recycle like a broken record: news is a conversation, it’s networked, it’s all about the crowd, we’ve got to preserve the values, the traditions, the jobs, and above all we need to discover and exploit the fucking hell out of whatever “the” business model turns out to be.
In a Harvard Business post that has tongues wagging in Cambridge and Davos, Umair Haque trashes a century of capitalism. Twentieth Century growth was not only dumb, but it is now eating itself. A hearty appetite, apparently. Hague posits four pillars of smart growth for economies, communities and corporations for this century: 1. Outcomes, not […]